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Sean Penn’s ambitions to be a seer on foreign affairs “He writes as though his prose has been fed through Google translate. Twice. Alas, discerning his meaning remains possible when it would plainly be better for him if it were not. He is not in Kissinger’s class. But he is still youngish and so there is time yet for his prose to develop a thicker crust of unintelligibility that would be a fitting match for his statesmanlike grandeur and all the rest of that sort of thing.”
Allan Massie.
The Google remark is particularly good. That must hurt. What an utter buffoon Mr Penn is. And humourless, as the creators of Team America: World Police discovered.
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I didn’t have the stomach to read the Dragunia piece itself, but the extracts Massie cites are sufficient. What utterly meretricious twaddle. P. J. O’Rourke wrote that earnestness was stupidity gone to college. Penn never even made it that far. He’s just stupid. Can you picture the poor sub being handed this utter bollocks? Where would you even begin in battering some intelligibility into it? Looks like they didn’t try (although perhaps the unedited draft was an even more spectacular congeries of balderdash.) This isn’t even nonsense on stilts. It’s nonsense on a high wire, nonsense strapped to a jet-pack.
I always found Penn intensely irritating as an actor. He seems so self-satisfied. Couple that with the unedifying spectacle of someone worth a reputed $150 million cosying up to some of Latin America’s most repellent demagogues and I have a good excuse not to see any more of his work.
Mr Penn is actually quite logical – he is, as a Progressive, a sworn eneny of Western civilization.
Britain (degenerate and most likely dying though Britain is) in this case the representative of the West – so Mr Penn is our enemy (all is as it should be).
Argentina is interesting.
Presently it has a government in the Fascist (Peronist) tradition – but its claims are supported by the Marxists in both Argentina itself and the rest of the “anti colonialist” (i.e. pro Marxist – for remember “Colonialism is the highest stage of capitalism” Lenin) regimes in Latin America.
Another reminder that Fascism is, like Marxism, a Progressive movement – i.e. an enemy of civil society.
“But these government are elected”.
A fact of no relevance what-so-ever.