PJ, Riding Dead Horses

The Parallel NYT Universe, Where Hillary Is President and Yet Everything Is Still Terrible:



I've always loved PJ O'Rourke's wit and wisdom, and this column is no exception. My favorite was this:

There, she and her audience experience phenomena hardly imaginable to us. In U1 we sometimes beat a dead horse, but in UNYT they feed it and groom it and ride it around.

U1 is the universe the rest of us live in, UNYT is the bubble universe of the NY Times. The following is a classic liberals view that since the level of progress of some group has not reached their view of "utopia", the progress from where the disadvataged group were at is not to be considered with positive regaurd!

A feature called “Exposures” goes “Inside Bangladesh’s factories, where $2 shirts get made.” Working conditions are poor and pay is paltry. But, as I said, this universe has a different mathematics. Personally, I am more indignant about $20 martinis than $2 shirts. (Switching the price of these two items is, I gather, not an option in UNYT .)

However, to be fair, maybe UNYT has a different geography and a different history as well as a different mathematics. I spent some time in Bangladesh a quarter of a century ago, before the shirt factories arrived. In those days people (child laborers included!) didn’t have anywhere to work. Therefore the working conditions weren’t poor. And the pay wasn’t paltry because there wasn’t any. Bangladeshis were starving.

Definitely worth the read! 

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