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Comment by hristov | Hacker News Reader

Good old Tom Friedman. Even when I actually agree with his point, his writing is so godawfull I want to strangle him. The real competition is between me and my imagination? Really? How do I and my imagination compete exactly? This man should not be allowed to make metaphors.

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I was reading a political piece in Reason this morning and found Tom described thusly: ..Columnist Thomas L. Friedman, the human one-sentence-explanation dispenser... (link: http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/18/the-obama-narrative-na... )

I like Friedman -- in small doses.

Haha, Friedman belongs nowhere near the New York Times. He'd be better suited as the whacky Social Studies teacher somewhere in the midwest (ok, he reminds me of my old social studies teacher).

Another funny article where Jonah Goldberg has at Mr Friedman: http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=ZTMzZTc3YWQ5MTgzN2I...

Couldn't agree more :) I cringed through many pages of "The World Is Flat" in the same manner. The book was quite insightful and was a worthy read, but his treatise of technologies was unbearable at parts.

You're just saying that because you don't like the man.

The real competition IS between YOU and YOUR IMAGINATION, nothing could be truer.

There's an ongoing struggle between your lazier and baser instincts and your imagination.

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" Napoleon Hill

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