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| I've seen Brendan O'Neill speak (at the ICA, at the 'How Will You Vote?' event), and he was just as embarrassing then: arguing that people shouldn't vote, but in a very incoherent fashion that suggested he was more concerned about appearing iconoclastic and 'rebellious' in the most superficial sense than actually being able to construct a point. He did a lot of the same things then that he does here, eg confusing and conflating Blairism with, for example, grass-roots political movements that are in direct opposition to Blairism. It's when he talks about Radiohead and The Libertines in the article that you get the clearest picture of his mental deficiencies: Radiohead are "conservatives" (O'Neill can't cope with idea of anyone "getting us to behave in what they deem to be an acceptable and responsible manner", so he sees any advocates of environmentally sustainable behaviour or social justice as teh same as Tories - what a child); Pete Doherty is not rock'n'roll enough - behaving within "strictly defined limits" - because he doesn't go on about how great his heroin habit is! Pathetically wrong in the head. |
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