The pathetic elections have provided an answer to the question posed in the last post. No, there is no way to avoid that conclusion. Corporate idiocy, foaming-at-the-mouth greed and ignorance...a mass of spoiled children running amok in their hand-made hell, figuratively gnawing on each other's heads...ah yes, the American electorate.
Goodbye to Russ Feingold, one of the few decent people in American politics - defeated by dollars, hate, stupidity, fear...ah yes, the American electorate.
How does a thinking person avoid being drawn into the inevitable vortex of Ambrose Bierce-ville? Where are today's Menckens?
Are there any grown-ups in the American corporate press? Does anyone at the NY Times really reflect, just for a moment, on the daily foolishness posing as "all the news that's fit to print" on their front page?
..."toda la pobre inocencia de la gente"...sang Mercedes Sosa...the poor innocence of the people"...yeah, right. There is nothing innocent about "the people". They are a mass of frightened, pathetic fools, who rabidly cling to their ignorance like a hungry dog its bone...who prize, cherish their ignorance, who worship it as their one true god, and who in the end will erect their own Tower of American Babel out of the brick and mortar of their own bristling stupidity.
¡Hay que joderse!
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The latest rant brings out a desire to hunt for some rays of light and especially to resist this lambasting of the "masses" as a single block that can be so generally and negatively stylized.I expect Money and it's lackeys to cultivate a cynical and negative view of the "masses", whose fears and foolishness suits their objectives so well.
The closer I have got to folk, distinguishing individuals within the mass, the trees from the wood, the less easy it has been to sustain a blanket view of any group. For example, my actual experience of real Americans belies some long-held prejudices. Giving up on democracy could be a dangerous arrogance.
By the way, is it so clear from the US results that the big bucks always got their man/woman in?
I´m not worried because I´m retiring to 1970s Sesame Street. You can find me on youtube hobnobbing with Buffy, Big Bird and Gordon in the local grocery store.
I´ll be on the brownstone steps watching fearless children jumping rope in the street. I´ll be happily counting along in my purple polyester pants.
I think back on how many times I was disappointed with America and felt DOOMED and it seems to get worse, not better. Being a child during Nixon, coming of age in the seventies during the recession, watching everyone get rich -except for everyone I knew in the 80's, then there were the Bushes ……. just can’t help the resignation at this point. I mean, do I really have to drive on the highway and see “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” billboards? By the way, they’re looking for donations…. Here’s some sarcastic resignation for ya...
http://wonkette.com/429455/worldnetdaily-needs-your-donations-for-birth-certificate-billboards
But maybe we’ll be OK. I’m not a witch and Paladino isn’t governor of New York.
~Laurie G
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