Friday, March 24, 2006

David Irving as a metaphor for ignorance

The opening line of a review of in the Music Express, a London based publication reads as follows:
"Aside from the deaf or those in a level of denial up there with David Irving's idiot pronouncements on the Holocaust, everyone's aware that we live in great times for music."

http://www.nme.com/reviews/be-your-own-pet/7895

This clearly demonstrates that Irving is being subjected to the worst fate of all for someone who so desperately wants to be taken seriouly: ridicule.

3 comments:

Vot said...

I would find cold comfort in being supported by “hip” opinion. What is the essence of hip? Hipsters are people who have an unfounded belief in their superiority to mere mortals based on an ability to like music that most people find painful and amateur and to wear various forms of jesters motley whilst maintaining a discordant expression of alienated aloofness. The “hip” individual is simply someone whose lack of talent and intellect is inversely related to their vanity. Good luck with your army of the hip, you will need it.

stephenhow said...

The History Channel's "Standing Tall At Auschwitz" program about the dwarves was a little too bizarre for me. I couldn't keep from thinking cynically, and wondering if the Holocaust wasn't Jumping The Shark at that moment ...

Danny Mittleman said...

David Iriving has become a meme for "clueless loser". How just.