I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined) by Chuck Klosterman

Author:Chuck Klosterman [Klosterman, Chuck]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9781439184493
Amazon: 1439184496
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2013-07-09T07:00:00+00:00

Now, it’s entirely possible that what the writer of this New York Times piece was trying to argue was that Monica Lewinsky shouldn’t matter anymore, and maybe she thought that writing those words might somehow make them true. Certainly, there’s a vague sophistication in insisting that Clinton’s sexual misadventures are irrelevant to any serious discourse about political history. But that’s backward. In truth, it matters way more than we like to admit (and in a hundred years, it will be the only thing non-historians will remember about Bill Clinton, unless his wife somehow becomes president). The machinations of politics are mostly fake; they are performed and constructed for our psychological benefit with little tangible impact (at least for those in the intended audience). But there was nothing unreal about this scandal. It personalized an issue that no normal person could possibly experience.

It was a five-sided predicament.

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