In an addendum to my own recent post Hillary, McCain, Vodka. The New, “Feel Good” Plan A Lite about the currently apparent selection by the PermaGov of McCain and Clinton as the two “acceptable” (Read supporters of Plan A Lite) in the Middle East) presidential candidates for 2008, I wrote:
In play.
NOW.
Here is part of Knoxville Progressive’s reply to that comment:
Given how “W World” is performing in the marketplace of ideas, I think this is the minimum of what we can achieve in the upcoming historical moment. The door is open for someone with balls to pull the conversation seriously back in a progressive direction. And it may be that if the time is really right, such a person will arise, whether Feingold or someone else.
Politicians are like surfers in that regard, always on the alert for the next big wave to take them higher and farther than their competitors.
The worse BushCo fails, the greater our opportunities.
This is quite a valid point.
It is the way that things have worked here in America for many, many years. At LEAST since FDR.
Except for one thing.
The New Reality Machine.
The Mass Media and its Mass Mind Meld.
If we do not factor in this “new reality”…that there IS a New Reality Machine and that it is IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY…then we are doomed.
It is said that Satan’s greatest success lay in convincing humankind that he did not exist.
Yup.
“New Reality Machine? WHAT New Reality Machine? What bullshit!!!. What’s for supper, Mabel? Let’s watch the news.”
Yup.
Read on for more.
The problem with your surfer metaphor, Knox, is this. The media has learned how to control the weather. The weather inside of people’s minds. When and if conditions appear that are in any way conducive to producing big waves other than those desired by the PermaGov, the media is used to damp down the action.
Case in point?
“ARRRRRGH!!!”
Dean was riding one HELL of a wave.
Suddenly, as if by magic…the wave disappeared. Along with the wind that created it. It seemed as if it happened literally overnight. Next thing we knew, there was Small K kerry paddling along in the kiddie pool.
“And now the weather. It’s calm today. We’re going to be just fine. I can see for MILES!!!”
Riiiiiiight…
Surf surf surf surf surfin’, USA.
Mark Twain said “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
This will be the epitaph of Blogworld ’06 unless we get busy and create some REAL weather.
So…once again, I ask:
In play.
NOW.
You want a metaphor?
I got yer metaphor, right HERE!!!
On the evidence.
EXTENSIVE evidence.
Since the day that magic bullet entered JFK’s brain.
Be afraid.
Be VERY afraid.
That Satan metaphor?
It is as good as any.
Better than most.
That’s why it’s lasted so long.
Bet on it.
Later…
AG
The “creatures in power” are “not from here”? When you use a quotation in a diary, you should give the source. What’s the source here, a David Ickes site? So you think the Bushes and the British Royals are actually Reptoids from an Alien Planet?
Not a bad theory.
But since you say there’s “lots of evidence,” let’s see some.
Wow!!!
You’re quick.
I saved that for the tip jar/comment.
Yoiu beat me to it.
Read below.
AG
Further…
I did not use that box thing as a “quote”. Just as a way to highlight the idea. That is MY writing in the box. I do that quite often, and this is the first time that anyone ever thought that it was an unattributed quote.
Sorry to have been so confusing.
AG
And more…
I did not say that there is “lots of evidence.”
I said “On the evidence.”
Meaning on the evidence of their actions.
If it smells like a cigar, I am going to assume that it IS a cigar until it is sufficiently proven otherwise.
AG
Tips and recs, of course.
Let’s talk.
Lest you for a minute think that I am going all fundamentalist on your asses…
I got yer fundamentalism right here, too.
The FUNDAMENTAL thing that we must understand is that this world is ALL metaphor.
That cigar? It is NEVER a cigar. Molecules, atoms, strings, waves, vibrations, octaves, blue smoke and mirrors…call it what you will. But it is NOT “a cigar.”
Same with Satan, BushCo and the weather.
if you were to appear from another galaxy with no real knowledge of human society and asked to analyze the goals of the people who control this administration solely on their actions over the past 6-10 years ON THE EVIDENCE ALONE, there would be only one conclusion at which you could arrive.
They are trying to promote a nuclear war.
And every one of their new realities have taken them closer to that single goal.
Every single damned one.
Why?
We can only guess.
Maybe they are bone stupid enough to think that they can survive one.
Maybe they really BELIEVE in the fundamentalist concept of Armageddon, believe that they are merely acting as the mighty arm of Jehova.
Maybe they just think that the herd needs some serious thinning.
Etc., etc., etc.
That’s all guesswork and be damned.
But again…ON THE EVIDENCE AND NO MATTER “WHY” IT MAY BE THAT THEY ARE DOING THIS…
The fact is…they ARE.
On the evidence. That is NOT guesswork.
And the other fact is…as far as I can see (unless Hillary is playing such a brilliant inside game that she has damned near fooled herself), Russ Feingold is the only politician who can stop this thing.
Howard Dean too, except he’s quite apparently not going to run.
So, once again…
In play.
NOW.
THAT’S my fundamental question.
New party?
Mass movement?
What?
Tell me.
I’m all ears.
Later…
AG
Here I was, ready to quote Church Lady back at you:
and you go all meta (or metaphorical) on me.
Actually, it’s quite a relief. Debating the existence of Satan is not a useful or pleasant place to go.
Speaking of SNL, having Feingold as a guest host wouldn’t be a bad part of building up some wider buzz. An interview on the Daily Show. Followed up by a visit to Oprah. You see where this is going:
If the MSM is the problem, there are (at least) two approaches we can take: Wear them down (disadvantage: takes a looong time) or flow around them. Flow around them, and when there’s enough buzz, he’ll be “a phenomenon” and 60 Minutes will be banging on his door for an interview.
Maybe viral marketing?
That’s one approach, anyway.
If I was a media spinmeister I’d be out doing it, not sitting here blogging about it.
“If I was a media spinmeister I’d be out doing it, not sitting here blogging about it. “
Yeah…
Me too.
But then if you were so dishonorable as to have been able to climb high enough up the pus-soaked rungs of the media spinmeister ladder…you wouldn’t give a shit one way or another.
Catch 484. (Catch 22 squared.)
Later…
AG