![]() ![]() There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: “The Public Sucks. In On Being Awesome, philosopher and former pro skater Nick Riggle sets out to give an account of what it is to be awesome and, conversely, what it is to suck. ![]() His work has been published in McSweeney’s, Aeon, and Hyperallergic, among other outlets. On BeingAwesome:A UnifiedTheory ofHowNottoSuck.London:PenguinBooks,2017, 224 pp., 2 b&w illus., 20.00 cloth. The author of On Being Awesome, he regularly lectures at top philosophy departments internationally. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Nick Riggle is associate professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego. Term limits ain’t going to do any good you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. ![]() Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. “George Carlin, as early as 2001, noted in his book Napalm & Silly Putty: Everybody says suck. ![]()
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