The Evil and Contemptuous Naomi Klein
Although it’s quite difficult to identify what she stands for – her first book, the populist No Logo, rallied against the ubiquity of advertising, and her latest, The Shock Doctrine, maligns Milton Friedman and free-market economics by association (yes, oddly enough, by association) – assuming she has some, I’m fairly certain I loathe the ideals this woman espouses.
Ordinarily, I’d dismiss her as yet another drop in the misanthropic, anti-consumerist, socialist well, but she’s a popular misanthropic, anti-consumerist socialist. Really popular. According to wikipedia:
Klein ranked 11th in an internet poll [1][2][3] of the top global intellectuals of 2005, a list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals compiled by Prospect magazine[4] in conjunction with Foreign Policy magazine. She was the highest ranked woman on the list.
Plus, all my lefty friends cite her as an authority source.
Check out this video:
Sounds like another name to add to the list of modern-day Ellsworth Tooheys.
Expect more on this evil and contemptuous soul…
