![]() ![]() But all you got from it was the smarter-sounding version of “haters gonna hate.” ![]() It’s nearly nine thousand words about democracy, privilege, character, social progress, and collectivism. When I spoke of the man “whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,” I was not picturing a twenty-three-year-old Elon Musk fanboy who won’t learn someone’s pronouns.Īlso, not that you’ve read it, but the speech is called “Citizenship in a Republic.” The arena thing is kind of an intro. I became President at age forty-two I created the National Parks System I won a Nobel Peace Prize I gave a ninety-minute speech with a bullet in my chest. I’ve been reading A People’s History of the United States, and, well, yikes.īut there’s no denying I did stuff. ![]() I realize 40 to 100 percent of my whole deal has aged poorly. ![]() Look, your boy Theo has done a lot of thinking since dying in 1919. Maybe you agree with them, maybe you don’t, but I’ll be damned if my legacy is going to boil down to shitty men’s go-to “sorry-not-sorry” quote. About nature and morality and democracy and monopoly. I did not make that speech at the Sorbonne so that a mid-tier YouTuber could address his history of bigoted comments with, “Sometimes when you’re the guy in the arena, shit happens, ya feel?” Not when it became a Cadillac commercial, or the name of a Tom Brady documentary, or even a reference in Nixon’s resignation speech.īut you have pushed me too far. I’ve let my “man in the arena” quote be twisted for over a hundred years and said nothing. ![]()
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