Arundhati Roy is a sofa-bedI
Arundhati Roy is a sofa-bed
I am not being weirdly metaphorical here. A typically boring puff-piece on Roy in the Independent quotes her saying
Roy flinches when she’s called a writer-activist (she says it makes her feel like a sofa-bed).
She brings to mind George Stigler’s definition of an activist: someone whose mouth is more active than his brain. And no, that is not an argument, just an insult. I have neither the time nor the inclination any longer to talk with the Roys and Chomskys. An open mind can eventually turn into a sewer pipe.