Best literary metaphor for the Bush administration NSA spying

[DBoon]

[ixion]

1. "A Confederacy of Dunces"

I think covers it, albeit in a not quite so funny manner.

[der_kranich]

4. Definitely a dunce...

Definitely a dunce and the admin is definitely a confederacy of them. I would not use that one though since we find at the end of the book that the lead character is actually the only one who is not crazy, but that everyone else around him is. There is a book called The Poisonwood Bible that to me summarizes the Bush era. In this a book a stubborn and narrow minded preacher becomes a missionary in the Congo and eventually destroys himself and his family when he insists on imposing his moral views on the Congolese.

[newyawker99]

5. Hi der_kranich!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[acmavm]

2. Solshenitzen. Any of his novels. And I know that I didn't spell

his name right.

[Warpy]

3. It's not literary at all, but the best overall metaphor

is of the cheating husband who starts to monitor all his wife's phone calls, emails, and activities because he's just realized how easy it was for HIM to start cheating.

Since this gang are the biggest group of college cheaters gone to corporate malfeasance the country has ever been cursed with, the analogy holds. They are aware of how many laws they're breaking, so their focus is on US.