Coming Soon to Turkey
The Turkish government is creating hype around its policies using the media's tactics
In Humboldt’s Gift, a novel by Saul Bellow, there’s a fantastic extended tirade about boredom and power. “What could be more boring than the long dinners Stalin gave?” Bellow asks. “The guests drank and ate, and ate and drank, and then at 2 a.m. they had to sit down to watch an American Western. Their bottoms ached. . . . Everyone was perishing of staleness and fear, afraid to go to the toilet.” “Power,” he concludes, “is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.”
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