In the November/December 2010 issue of Orion magazine, Bill McKibben questions the cogency of "the professional middle" who accuse "the professional left" of being unable to deal with reality. The professional middle would include Barack Obama and the White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs. McKibben is understood to be within the professional left.
McKibben received a "2010 Presidential Survey" on fourteen national issues that avoided any mention of physical realities across the earth, for instance, "that Moscow was shrouded in hot smoke, Pakistan was drowning, and a piece of ice roughly the size of A VERY LARGE THING NEAR YOU had broken off the Greenland ice shelf." Doesn't realistic normally include what is real?
I have begun to read this magazine at the beginning of my day. The authors in Orion speak about the earth. It is no stretch to say that they are grounded in reality. I want to be grounded there, too.
McKibben received a "2010 Presidential Survey" on fourteen national issues that avoided any mention of physical realities across the earth, for instance, "that Moscow was shrouded in hot smoke, Pakistan was drowning, and a piece of ice roughly the size of A VERY LARGE THING NEAR YOU had broken off the Greenland ice shelf." Doesn't realistic normally include what is real?
I have begun to read this magazine at the beginning of my day. The authors in Orion speak about the earth. It is no stretch to say that they are grounded in reality. I want to be grounded there, too.
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