“A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.”
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In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.
I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
