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Date Posted: 00:50:49 07/01/01 Sun
Author: gumtree
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Speaking in Tongues

Bush is no Hitler. He doesn't have the brains.

He's the sap chosen by the Corporate State to keep us all comfortable with our busy little lives, buying useless gadgets, watching television and movies with similar plotlines (where everything Turns Out All Right), absorbing "news" owned by one of Three Major Corporations (no, sorry, spoot, even PBS didnt report on the troubles that ADM got into), driving our preposterously overpriced cars, using incredibly overpriced gas...little houses, made of ticky-tacky...

Who was surprised that gas prices went up (when world oil prices are going down), after installing two former oil-men in office? Record profits by oil companies? who knew? Show of hands, please...anyone? anyone?

There is a growing chasm in American society, largely ignored - the poor are staying poor, while the "middle class" gets rich (by global standards) - no, I advocate no Luddite schemes, but this is the classic revolutionary scenario. You and I have one of the instruments of that chasm right beneath our fingertips - when you sweat a 25% increase in transportation cost (gas prices again) because you have to cut into food and rent money, you really arent thinking about the next software upgrade. But, who's really SEEN a poor person, really? Mr. Reagan told us that there are no poor people HERE....

No, Bush is no Hitler, he's more the clown act, meant to distract while the scenery is changed. Like the scene in Dr. Zhivago, we're all having fun at the dance, while the Palace Guard mows down them who needs bread (in a figurative, non-violent, sanitized, G-rated sort of way, of course). No, you don't see any signs of starvation, and no real privation. The soma in every household is that glowing electric box, assuring everyone that if your whites were whiter, you would have a happy life. We are all in the mode of ACCEPTING what we are given - acceptance of mediocrity or worse. Try complaining about something that you bought that broke - feel like a fool? Feel like a whiner? Feel like you're swimming against the current? Why do we blindly accept it when "customer service" takes weeks to respond, but the money is charged to your credit card in an instant?

Do I sound paranoid? I assure you, I have no canned goods stored away in a bunker, I buy gas, I buy useless widgets, I drive a hideously overpriced car and pollute, I have not one, but several computers, I have a majik box in my air-conditioned living room that stays on more than it should, and I have a ticky-tacky house, too. But I think, and can't help but wonder.

The Japanese, after enduring us for years, are fomenting to throw the US military out of Okinawa, because of yet another stupid ugly incident with the local folk we're "protecting."

Ah...Empire no more.
There's your Eddie link.

Believe what you want.
I believe I'll have another drink.

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