Thursday, February 23, 2006
AM Coffee Thots
It’s an interesting split that we’ve come to embrace so ...enthusiastically as a nation. Those who shout loudest for “RED! you commie!” or BLUE!! you fascist!!"resemble those fellas ya see at ballgames with no more thought given to the basic issue than to the choice of “Steelers” “Yankees.” The two ‘sides’ are aren’t represented by platforms or ideologies; but by a coupla screaming, painted buffoons, reacting with knee-jerk predictability and an utter lack of thought.
Life is so easy for us that we take for granted the luxury of freaking out at the idea of causing an animal some pain; yet look blithely on as mass graves are dug up. We have so little pain in our lives that we freak out at the fffff-The actuality of a tyrannical despot is so far removed that some can call the US government ‘Orwellian’ and actually consider turning our backs on 25 million newly-freed people in their hour of need. Again.
It is the inconceivable cruelty of those whose world view is ignorant of Nature, red in tooth and claw, and of what is required for a human to be successful in that real world. The expectation is that the Safeway will always be stocked—from whence we care not—and the lattes will always flow and I can say any damfool thing I want—even call our President ‘Hitler’—since, after all, this is a free country.
Maybe a big *BOOM*—something a tad more disruptive and personal than even 9/11—is what it will take to reacquaint the pee-pole with The Basics. We’re not so far from ‘the olden days’ as some would believe. It was only 60 or 70 years ago that most people in The Country™ had no electricity. I remember we got ours from the REA—the Rural Electrification Administration. My grandmother began her life by gaslight—in downtown Chicago—and lived to see Americans walk on the Moon.
Folks get so confused by the DVR, the cellfones and the Blackberrys they forget we’re not so far away from laudanum, the hand saw and the kitchen ax. And the ‘failure of imagination’ extends to how easily we can be thrust back to the daily need for such things. Those of us who survive the first few months....
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