tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post3568057076926542162..comments2023-10-20T02:35:30.256-06:00Comments on darkblack: You Get What They Paid Fordarkblackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06584075324283109495noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-87038748951930197772010-07-19T18:06:11.236-06:002010-07-19T18:06:11.236-06:00Yes, 'same as it ever was', I suppose- it&...Yes, 'same as it ever was', I suppose- it's not like humankind has evolved <i>en masse</i> in a gracious fashion toward some loftier plane of existence.<br /><br />One need never go broke pandering to their baser instincts, hmmm?<br /><br />;>)darkblackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584075324283109495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-70149024575513638832010-07-18T22:14:46.856-06:002010-07-18T22:14:46.856-06:00Ahh, but it's not surrender. It's an uneas...Ahh, but it's not surrender. It's an uneasy patience. Coming to the realization that despite unavoidable and undeniable truths, enough skin sacks willingly prefer to be lied to and scammed makes the waiting somewhat entertaining.<br /><br />Disengaging from an abusive relationship is a healing journey. Lurking and waiting for the teeming masses to come to grips with realities left out of the pricing strategies and marketing <br />offers interesting opportunities to dabble in affirming pursuits.<br /><br />Strangely, most of the driving driven are not integral to the operation. Stripped of their conflated importance and indispensability removes only the clay feet. <br /><br />Not rainbows and moonbeams. Just life as it has been lived beneath the edifice for centuries.Rehctawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995444077162800445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-14650069155996171492010-07-18T12:51:50.212-06:002010-07-18T12:51:50.212-06:00'futility'...Hmmm. That certainly is the a...<i>'futility'</i>...Hmmm. That certainly is the apt word to describe the current objective state for many given the Tofflerian aspect of affairs, but don't discount ignorance (as a result of <i>de facto</i> dismantling of public education and lowering of collegiate standards) or laziness (a statistically average prisoner of flesh having obtained whatever low-hanging fruit was made available - the house, the car, the putatively middle-class income offered for a job of little consequence or responsibility - all on easy credit and reasonable terms until the trap door is sprung) as sources for initial behaviors against one's own self-interests.<br /><br />My concerns are predicated on several fronts. Obviously, as our largest trading partner America has a ripple effect upon Canada - thus, politics cease to be exclusively local. <br />There is also a deep respect bordering on but perhaps not fulfilling a definition of latent patriotism, based on personal heritage and affinity for the ideals of your nation. <br />Someday I would like to live in America again, and take up that atavistic romance where it was left off long ago...'<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nNCz1D2hEY" rel="nofollow">Before they make me run</a>', as it were. Thus, I have very little truck with those who wish to surrender to the Abyss on the conquerors terms.<br /><br />;>)darkblackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584075324283109495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-20028409096584665232010-07-18T12:16:16.026-06:002010-07-18T12:16:16.026-06:00Mostly agreed, except "ignorance or laziness&...Mostly agreed, except "ignorance or laziness" as the reason. Nor do I perceive apathy, but rather futility as the determinant.<br /><br />We are victims of the Great Compromise predicated on false choices, broken pledges and LIES.<br />Why anyone would expect other from the entrenched self-interests?<br /><br />The dis-represented cannot all be ex-patriots. Love it or leave it just isn't viable. We are currently the ultimate faith-based exercise with only two possible outcomes, neither of which hold much promise for what comes after.<br /><br />Whether consciously or not, most are hoping to slide by long enough to come out somewhere better.Rehctawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995444077162800445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-25763650808747496722010-07-18T09:45:40.414-06:002010-07-18T09:45:40.414-06:00Harsh? Perhaps, Rehctaw - but proportionately so. ...Harsh? Perhaps, Rehctaw - but proportionately so. <br /><br />In my opinion, a certain degree of subjective responsibility for maintaining America's representative republic that is incumbent upon its citizens, a set of duties that corresponds to and nourishes the freedoms inherent within the construct has been absconded from by the majority of those same citizens, whether through ignorance, self-satisfied laziness or some other cause.<br /><br />These leaves the field open to oligarchies and cabals in search of profit and power who then become free to predate upon the unwitting society using its own tools and institutions against itself, whilst waving the flag and mouthing patriotic slogans that are empty of meaning to them but necessary for playacting purposes.<br /><br />One, and by extension the mass, becomes party to the scheme when it is repeated again and again - 'Fool me once`, etc. Whether this state is one of willing accomplice or perpetual dupe is irrelevant to the final outcome. <br />None of what the Bush administration did was unpredictable - An observer merely needed to look at the cast of characters and connections (Nixon, Iran-Contra, and so forth) being put into place and the planned outcome became all too clear.<br /><br />;>)darkblackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584075324283109495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-89078616566318541212010-07-18T08:46:03.655-06:002010-07-18T08:46:03.655-06:00Not reflected in the evaluation of Presidential sc...Not reflected in the evaluation of Presidential scholars is that The Shrub is hands down the worst TWO-TERM president ever, (unless you want to count Pierce and Buchanan as a single presidency since its issue, slavery, drove both)<br /><br />Harding was only president for 27 months. Johnson was fighting impeachment from day ONE.<br /><br />This puts Chimpy in a league of his own; for now. The longer view might expand his company to include RWR who prepared the meal that Chimpy delivered, but who has time for long views?<br /><br />Your indictment of Americans is a bit harsh. Cheated, lied to and snookered does not make them party to the deliberate schemes of our opportunistic representatives or the deep pockets that have funded the takeover.<br /><br />A hierarchy assembled, in essence, to wage war and protect profit is ill-equipped to promote peace. U.S. peacemakers were and are systematically marginalized and dismissed. Those that cannot be co-opted are eliminated leaving no standing for discourse, debate or alternatives.<br /><br />The worst case against the American people is that they've been had, but unless/until more than 50% actually vote on more than lies and rhetoric, the rest remain merely dis-served.Rehctawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995444077162800445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-56242190556730319002010-07-10T17:08:57.138-06:002010-07-10T17:08:57.138-06:00bush is the worst human ever -- well maybe palin o...bush is the worst human ever -- well maybe palin or boner or eric cantor or beck or limbaughDistributorcaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10149154929149577121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-1751397270684642372010-07-07T17:07:25.517-06:002010-07-07T17:07:25.517-06:00Thank you both. I try to avoid blathering on, but ...Thank you both. I try to avoid blathering on, but I am not always successful in the endeavor.<br /><br />The next level in the trap is one of perceived universal complicity...For example, making the populace accept the 'conventional wisdom' that a person working for social justice, upholding the rule of law, and promoting higher American ideals is no better than a Cheeto-stuffed couch surfer shouting 'DEMO-NAZI!' at their spittle-spattered laptop screen while they forward emails containing pictorial impressions of Obama as a witch doctor, or suchlike. <br />Such a marginalization strategy can pay large dividends come election Kabuki time.<br /><br />We live in an era where false equivalences are as prevalent as weeds in an abandoned yard. <br />IMO, there is no one group with a monopoly on objective truth - but there are several groups for whom deliberate distortion of that objective truth is an imperative necessity for maintenance of their power over the sheep.<br /><br />;>)darkblackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584075324283109495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-422686291631099542010-07-07T14:57:18.441-06:002010-07-07T14:57:18.441-06:00Great post. Probably the longest piece of prose by...Great post. Probably the longest piece of prose by you that I have ever read! <br />Somehow it was an essential part of my formative years, it all makes perfect sense, that I went to Warren G. Harding Jr. High.microdothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01564820031343630871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36572024.post-48637543470576770312010-07-06T09:21:22.496-06:002010-07-06T09:21:22.496-06:00Great fuckin' post, db.
Having been born in t...Great fuckin' post, db.<br /><br />Having been born in the US, I have nearly always been furious, since I became a sentient youth, by the way we've been tricked into believing your very aqpt depiction of the US brand of self deception.<br /><br />I often wonder if I only lived anywhere else but the US, if I'd be a "happier" person. Dunno. I'd certainly be filled with less self loathing.<br /><br />The song I always play on Independence Day is CCR's Fortunate Son. It should be the replacement for the horrible current National Anthem of America.Cleveland Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12514937281212775227noreply@blogger.com