In a front-paged diary on My Left Wing by Hari Seldon called Class Struggle,Mr. Seldon quoted Gore Vidal as having said in answer to a question about what it was like to return to the United States after having spent years in Europe:
And it struck me that there it is, in a nutshell.
We have let it go so far that if you DO care about America, you CANNOT make any money.
Not really.
And…I will take it one step further.
Anyone who is steadily making money…is not in the midst of at the very least a severe regression of their wealth/fame/power/fortune, including those who have inherited their wealth…does NOT care about America.
Not really.
Because in a criminal system only the criminals (And their collaborators…collaboration being a crime in and of itself.) make money.
Look in the mirror here, folks. Those of you who are “making money”. And prepare to recognize…and hopefully to some degree extirpate…your OWN guilt.
I went through it. Going on 6 years ago. I was married to a collaborator and just barely free of the system myself. It took a cataclysmic change to see the light.
Good luck with it.
Drop the fuck out and refuse to collaborate any more than it takes for you and those who depend upon you to survive. You will be glad that you did. Believe it.
And beware your leaders as well.
Read on for more.
What is the present Kos KaKaphony on the blogs REALLY about?
It is about Armstrong and Armando…and Kos himself, bet on it…making money. The old fashioned/new fashioned way. By involving themselves in the corporate, lies and usury-driven system. And it is ALSO about the Las Vagueness choice for the convention, and the waste society memetics of Warner’s over the top sushi and martini party as well.
And what MOST appeals to me about the only two Dem politicians that I would currently be willing to support in ’08…Howard Dean and Russ Feingold?
The relative simplicity of how they live and dress. Not a “dressing-down” simplicity like Butch’s Hud character/regressive gay bar western outfits. The real thing.
I was watching the only sports talk show on TV that has an ounce of integrity (“”Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith”) recently, and Mr. Smith had Howard Dean on. Dean made his entrance wearing his trademark penguin-cut suit…off the rack, guaranteed…and a red tie that he had tied just a little too long (He carries no “dresser”. Also guaranteed. And I’ll bet he hates having the makeup people fuss on him, too.) so that it kind of protruded down below the button of the suit, which button itself was substantially…stressed getting across his workingman-looking squatty frame. He is not fat, exactly. Just a real mesomorph dealing as well as he can with middle age. (I can relate.) Dean has always reminded me a little of the 70’s Dodger power hitting third baseman Ron Cey. Nicknamed of course, “The Penguin”. Dean waddled on in, relievedly (quite obviously) unbuttoned his suit jacket, settled down tapping his feet in a slow but aware rhythm (Like any good batter, he was putting himself in good time. Watch them.), and hit every pitch right out of the park.
I LOVED it!!!
He is SO real.
Feingold, too.
They have continued to live fairly simply, given the exigencies of public life, and they are not (as far as I can see, anyway) just putting on an act.
Contrast that to an appearance I saw of Al Gore recently on the Letterman show…yes, I look for things of interest in an analytical sense on TV, and no I do NOT watch ANY of the commercials, so go away and go away now, any boobirds who are gearing up for their “J’accuse!!!” moment about how I am a media hypocrite…where he was TOTALLY (AND IT WAS QUITE EASILY PERCEIVED, AS WELL) FALSE from his $300 haircut to his every gesture, word and facial expression.
He may be quite sincere in his actions…I hope so, anyway, and I believe so as well…but he is, was and always will be a child of privilege, and it just STINKS off of him. He is a TERRIBLE candidate.
He is, very simply, a bad, bad actor. And his natural persona sucks.
Gore Vidal…a member of the Gore family, by the way (Gore’s father was a Senator and Vidal is, I believe, a fairly close cousin of Al’s.)…had it right.
He just didn’t go far enough.
His response should have been
I repeat what I have said often here…..in a criminal society, only criminal acts are rewarded.
And we are now officially a criminal society.
Ruled by criminals.
Propagandized by criminals.
Owned by criminals.
The United States is a powerful, rogue criminal state that is terrorizing its neighborhood…the earth, in this case…and burning down the system in its greed and corruption.
Burning it down in the William S. Burroughs sense.
Like junkies will “burn down” a doctor who will write junk scrips for money. Eventually that doctor is burned down. The cops get wise, and he is no longer useful to them. But of course…there’s always another crooked doctor. Burroughs extended this idea to his Nova Gang, a group of interplanetary criminals who use up the resources of a given planet and then move on to the next solar system to do the same thing all over again.
And there we jolly well are, aren’t we.
Check yourselves out.
Let he who is (relatively speaking, anyway) without sin cast the first ballot.
And…
Have fun…
Time’s a’wastin’.
Quite literally.
Later…
AG
