Americans lust after fame. It is the coveted position in which one may be gratuitously rude and disrespectful to anyone. Every mean little bureaucrat, in the manner of the defunct Peoples' Republics, lusts after a rubber stamp, by which he or she may lord over others and make them miserable. The concept of using power to cause good things to occur, is largely lost in America, as it was in the Soviet Union days ago.
People are concerned by the amount of handgun violence in America as compared to other countries. Really, I am surprised that it is so low. Social interactions exist for most Americans for the purpose of being horrible to each other.
This brings us to Sarah Palin. She is the Poster Child of the "Common Man," or "Joe Sixpack," or "Joe the Plumber." She came to the forefront of politics by accident, by the dearth of intelligent people with ideas. A well-trained prole, she started putting on airs as soon as the limelight illuminated her.
This is the riddle of American Idol, and the name is not poorly chosen. It is not the capacity to demonstrate powerful and amazing talent from the rank of the lumpen; but rather, to raise up a contestant to the role of "being someone," rather than "being nobody." This lust ensures the success of the miserable State lotteries, as well.
As for Governor Palin she was annoyed that she was treated rudely as a public figure, so she quit her Governor job. Rather than tolerating disappointment over her behavior, she slammed away at those who criticized her - "the liberal media." And the Republican apologists chimed along in song.
No American politician would tolerate for a minute the disdain given the Prime Minister in England. The House is brazenly suspicious and nosy; the people, disdainfully contemptuous and disrespectful. In America, the Senate and House merit you political divinity.
Even Kim Jong-Il has his apologists to explain his incomprehensible actions. But he doesn't seem to get sulky over the criticism - he relishes it.
Neither the Left nor the Right are saintly about this. It is endemic to the US Culture. Sorry. And we do not understand why the world does not shower us in rose petals. Buncha assholes.
People are concerned by the amount of handgun violence in America as compared to other countries. Really, I am surprised that it is so low. Social interactions exist for most Americans for the purpose of being horrible to each other.
This brings us to Sarah Palin. She is the Poster Child of the "Common Man," or "Joe Sixpack," or "Joe the Plumber." She came to the forefront of politics by accident, by the dearth of intelligent people with ideas. A well-trained prole, she started putting on airs as soon as the limelight illuminated her.
This is the riddle of American Idol, and the name is not poorly chosen. It is not the capacity to demonstrate powerful and amazing talent from the rank of the lumpen; but rather, to raise up a contestant to the role of "being someone," rather than "being nobody." This lust ensures the success of the miserable State lotteries, as well.
As for Governor Palin she was annoyed that she was treated rudely as a public figure, so she quit her Governor job. Rather than tolerating disappointment over her behavior, she slammed away at those who criticized her - "the liberal media." And the Republican apologists chimed along in song.
No American politician would tolerate for a minute the disdain given the Prime Minister in England. The House is brazenly suspicious and nosy; the people, disdainfully contemptuous and disrespectful. In America, the Senate and House merit you political divinity.
Even Kim Jong-Il has his apologists to explain his incomprehensible actions. But he doesn't seem to get sulky over the criticism - he relishes it.
Neither the Left nor the Right are saintly about this. It is endemic to the US Culture. Sorry. And we do not understand why the world does not shower us in rose petals. Buncha assholes.
The secret to American thought is, there is no such thing as American thought. Americans generally vomit forth memes upon stimulation, in the manner of the stereotypical regurgitation of seagulls when they feed their chicks.
One of the advantage of spewing memes instead of thought is that one's next spoken phrase is pre-determined. Americans love "TV political debate," which consists of exorbitantly rude people shrieking over each other, belching out the meme of the day for the party. This is called a "TALKING POINT." It is a memorized thing which should be issued when talking is called for.
Those who are skilled in this Art of Rudeness are TV Personalities, and thus are Famous.
There has been a most illustrative exchange on one of the Yahoo sites. It asks:
Why do cons who complain about "big government" rarely mention the waste in the military?The answers were incredibly illuminating and sad:
- Oh, and there is also corporate welfare.
- It is worth the risk of doing the job.
- Because Liberals hate the military.
- Better than wasting money on tax cheats like ACORN.
- Don't ask when our troops are fighting in the field.
- Hey you are anti-American and love big government so don't complain.
- Being a vet means your life was on the line the entire time you wore the uniform. Why was their life on the line? Because they were protecting the rights of ignorant imbeciles like you to go out in public and bash them even though they were fighting on your behalf. As far as being an unwed slut that got pregnant, well if you cant see how that is a drain on our economy then you need to crawl back under your rock. If it werent for vets we would still be kissing the feet of some tyrant from another country. Or better yet we might be speaking Japanese or German right now.
- Because it is the only thing in government that does what it is supposed to do.
- we just don't have the same solution the Libs do,which is basically disarm and possibly disband the Military.
WHY LEARN THE MATERIAL, WHEN A C+ IS A PASSING GRADE?
People ask why the high school completion rate is so low. Many Americans ask, why bother? Don't try, don't ask, don't fail. So as Americans continue to get stomped by India and China, not because the people work cheap, but also they are willing to DO the unskilled and LEARN the skills so that THEY can be the skilled producers. "Having a problem with that? America's falling behind? Not a problem for me, Jack - I'm a patriot!!"
One small voice of wisdom remains and lingers:
You know, all the hatred being whipped up by the lie merchants of talk radio has me worried. Don't let the lying posters on here define you. We both know what a neocon is, and it describes the base of the Republican Party, once a fine institution of classic conservatism.
Polite discourse is long gone. I'm an old man now, and if any of these neocons try to make good on their threats, I can and will become violent. This new age of irrationalism is worse than when Clinton took office.
I endured 8 years of misgovernance by Bush, which included a friend being blown in half in Mosul. He was so lucky, according to neocon thought, he was able to die while watching his intestines spread across the floor.
I fear for my country, and it's because of the irrational right wing. The late Sen. Barry Goldwater is one of my personal heros. He would be sick to his stomach. Goldwater's maxim was "Disagree without being disagreeable."
Goldwater would be run out of the party today.
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