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One would think that after a pleasant vacation I should be serene and rested, but I'm not. Rather I'm more restless and antsy than when I left. I think the only consolation I have is that I'd be even more restless and antsy than I am now had I not gone. But then, is this really a bad thing?
I keep on playing over and over in my mind Howard Beale's beautiful mad rants (God bless you, Paddy Chayefsky), they are truer now than they were 30 years ago. I've watched Network again a few times. Yes, "First, you've got to get mad!"Network easily ranks up there with the greats like Citizen Kane as far as timeless twisted beauty goes, and is as prophetic as Terry Gilliam's Brazil (shopping, plastic surgery, torture and terrorism, anyone?) Sadly enough, if this keeps up, the next prophetic movie we'll see coming true sometime soon will be Soylent Green, but hey, at least then the Baby Boomers will start pulling their weight for once.
Paying my taxes the other day I was accosted by a group called "Mothers Against the War." Do you know where your tax dollars are going? they cried. "Yes, I do and I'm none too thrilled about it," I said. But, it's either pay my taxes or go to jail, or have my wages garnished for a lifetime, unless I can get rich enough to hire someone to find the loopholes to evade paying my taxes legally. I don't know about you but paying for an arrogant war of occupation and pigheaded greed under the banner of freedom on the cheap is by no means cheap. Not only are we putting ourselves in a hole by many billions to maybe a few trillion dollars more to our lenders the Chinese and Japanese and the Saudis, but we're also paying for it by squandering the lives and limbs of thousands of American service personnel, along with our reputation by living up to the image of the Global Bully our violent fanatical critics have bestowed upon us. So, where did my tax dollars go the other day? Maybe to buy a couple hundred or so American flags made in a Shanghai sweatshop which will be used to drape coffins curiously avoided by camera lenses.
It boils down to the slogan I've seen more and more "Support Our Troops: Impeach Bush." We can only hope, right? Is the world mad at us for our freedoms, or is it mad at us for allowing such an irresponsible and disingenuous foreign policy to continue? This isn't about conspiracy theories anymore. It's about what it's always been: Opportunistic Deception with a Smile and God's Blessing. We're following more and more in the footsteps of our forefathers the Romans: a great, noble people laid low by inbred and closeminded senior management parroting patriotic ideals and offering idiotic entertainment to appease the fear of the plebs to get them to go along with the raping of the nation's future. Yep, sounds like the evening news to me.
I keep on playing over and over in my mind Howard Beale's beautiful mad rants (God bless you, Paddy Chayefsky), they are truer now than they were 30 years ago. I've watched Network again a few times. Yes, "First, you've got to get mad!"Network easily ranks up there with the greats like Citizen Kane as far as timeless twisted beauty goes, and is as prophetic as Terry Gilliam's Brazil (shopping, plastic surgery, torture and terrorism, anyone?) Sadly enough, if this keeps up, the next prophetic movie we'll see coming true sometime soon will be Soylent Green, but hey, at least then the Baby Boomers will start pulling their weight for once.
Paying my taxes the other day I was accosted by a group called "Mothers Against the War." Do you know where your tax dollars are going? they cried. "Yes, I do and I'm none too thrilled about it," I said. But, it's either pay my taxes or go to jail, or have my wages garnished for a lifetime, unless I can get rich enough to hire someone to find the loopholes to evade paying my taxes legally. I don't know about you but paying for an arrogant war of occupation and pigheaded greed under the banner of freedom on the cheap is by no means cheap. Not only are we putting ourselves in a hole by many billions to maybe a few trillion dollars more to our lenders the Chinese and Japanese and the Saudis, but we're also paying for it by squandering the lives and limbs of thousands of American service personnel, along with our reputation by living up to the image of the Global Bully our violent fanatical critics have bestowed upon us. So, where did my tax dollars go the other day? Maybe to buy a couple hundred or so American flags made in a Shanghai sweatshop which will be used to drape coffins curiously avoided by camera lenses.
It boils down to the slogan I've seen more and more "Support Our Troops: Impeach Bush." We can only hope, right? Is the world mad at us for our freedoms, or is it mad at us for allowing such an irresponsible and disingenuous foreign policy to continue? This isn't about conspiracy theories anymore. It's about what it's always been: Opportunistic Deception with a Smile and God's Blessing. We're following more and more in the footsteps of our forefathers the Romans: a great, noble people laid low by inbred and closeminded senior management parroting patriotic ideals and offering idiotic entertainment to appease the fear of the plebs to get them to go along with the raping of the nation's future. Yep, sounds like the evening news to me.
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