From: suzych@swcp.com
In article <760jvv8q2eni78gcf6somn30hjq89eijsk@4ax.com>, tulips
wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:00:01 GMT, "Alan B. Mac Farlane"
> wrote:
>
> >in article 0n1bvv06dea9p5h7hhcj2o6ggt0br2b7nu@4ax.com, tulips at
> >tulips@bulbous.com wrote on 1/2/04 6:59 AM:
> >
> >>> Your dream world is making it clear to you I would suspect.
> >>>
> >> It was clear to me before my dream. I assure you.
> >
> >
> >oh ...then you got some more validation ... hope you do something about
> >it.
> >
> I vote..
>
> >i have been trying to impeach bush for some time now with his national
> >security lies and killing our boys for it.
> >
> There was a poll recently that read, around 70% of Americans think
> that Iraq was behind 911. That is outrageous. Any informed person
> knows that most of the high-jackers were Saudi born. With no ties to
> Iraq.
>
> What does this say about the American public? They are uninformed and
> to put it blunly, dumb. This is what we are dealing with. How do you
> reason with ignorant people?
>
> I am up for suggestions.
>
> >sumbuddie who cares
It's hopeless. Most people are too busy trying to survive in a crappy
economy to have the time to go looking for real news sources (as opposed
to the lying House Organs that most newspapers and tv news channels have
become thanks to consolidation in Right Wing hands), even if they have
the interest or education that would equip them to do so. The only way
you get to know what's actually going on around here is by reading news
sources from other countries and listening to NPR, and most people have
been convinced by ceaseless Right Wing screaming that anyone Left of
Caligula is raving "Liberal", whatever that means -- pretty much nothing
any more, although by tomorrow the Fringe Right may well have managed to
equate "Liberal" with Al Quaida; God knows they're trying hard enough,
and they have all the money. Recent history, if you can call it that,
proves conclusively that nothing works as well in America as the Big
Lie, Constantly Repeated; well, we are the original home of PR.
Just gotta wait it out. Of course by the time the pendulum finally
drags itself the other way again all of us here will be long dead, the
environment destroyed, and every cooperative system in the world
trampled to death under the rapacious lunacy of Globalization. But
hey, that's what happens when a species allows any extreme modification
to run rampant and take over: sooner or later, it ceases to fit real
world conditions sufficiently that the species becomes extinct.
Me, I'm trying to just enjoy what's enjoyable about life and not let
the fascist bastards poison it for me. I support MoveOn and other sane
elements trying to oppose the storm of stupidity and venal crookedness
that has overtaken us as a nation; write the occasional letter to the
papers to give another point of view than Carl Rove's crackpot Robber
Baron gutter politics; and cultivate, as Candide says, my garden.
Other strategies may work better for other people. But if you think
we're going to get these monsters' boot off our neck any time soon, you
are in for serious disillusion and burnout. Most people in America are
too dumb or ignorant or wilfully disengaged to give a damn so long as
they are promised that they will be able to afford that second SUV, man.
We won't be the first "civilization" to perish under the weight of its
own stubborn stupidness, but we may well be the last. The bears and
raccoons and such, if any remain, will no doubt heave great sighs of
relief, so at least somebody will benefit.
C.
Happy New Year.
--
Crow
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