Neocon Insanity

You’re a funny guy, Sully. I like you. That’s why I’m going to kill you last.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Commando, 1985

We’re turning into a bunch of catty little children on the playground, pinching and punching and biting and tattling on one another. And those in the role of the teacher are doing just what teachers did when I was in school, making the child guilty until proven innocent, then being unwilling to listen to the proof. I held nothing but contempt for those kinds of teachers when I was a kid and I hold nothing but contempt for those kinds of people today.

So Rachael Ray wore a scarf in front of a camera and a few people who have a following began to draw attention to it and accuse her of being a terrorist sympathizer. Rachael, don’t try proving otherwise, you’re just wasting your time. Just know that there are more of us out there for you than against you. You are dealing with an aristocracy of the pathetic…people who are selling their souls one sound bite at a time.

It’s an overused formula: “We’ve labeled you X. Now prove that you’re not.” The shy boy in school gets called a “fag” or a “psycho” or whatever and because of a misguided feeling of needing acceptance he begins the impossible, trying to prove to the collectivist lynch mob that he’s one of them. The lynch mob of collectivism is a unique social construct. Everyone in it eventually gets labeled the outsider and hung. There’s no end to it. There are always more people who want to join the clique thinking they can gain popularity or celebrity or prominence. They climb to the top to stand on the tightrope looking down at the rest of us trying to balance themselves until they fall off. It’s a tool of our enemy. People are selling one another out for cheaper and cheaper rewards. The only good that comes of it is when they stop and start to realize what is happening to them.

It’s just worsening. If you get photographed in the wrong attire you get labeled a sympathizer. Next if you are photographed with an index finger raised you’ll get labeled a sympathizer. Then we won’t be able to eat at certain restaurants. What? Hummus? That’s terrorist food. Some idiot will be calling Crime Shoppers with a tip about someone seen with fava beans or chickpeas and wanting $52.57 in reward money to pay their cell phone bill. al-Qaeda, if it even exists, doesn’t need to attack the country. We’re doing that to ourselves quite well, thank you very much.

The thing that the neocon collectivist bloggers, talk show hosts and other people snatching a ray of spotlight here and there don’t realize is that while they’re busy piling up at-a-boys from their peers and hoping to be noticed by the elite, they’re doing this in vain. It’s not going to get them accepted or inducted into the elite. It is not going to happen. You are nothing but a tool. And when your gears and threads strip you will no longer be of use to your owner. The best that can be hoped for is to be the last one to die once the prison camps officially open. That’s your prize. And I hope that sometime during your last 24-48 hours of life whatever shred of humanity you still have in there, whatever part of you used to be human before the chip and the GMO gruel and the experiments finally took their toll, will come fully to the forefront. And that during those last hours you’ll see everyone you led to the stockyards and that all you’ve really done is make the job easier for your executioner.

Business as Usual

When we invaded Iraq we asked Pres. Bush if he would release the oil reserves to stabilize prices the way his father did when the Gulf War broke out in 1990. He said no. He said that would make us appear weak. So for the last five years we’ve tried to operate rather misguidedly under the presumption of “Business as Usual.” The problem is that as prices have gone up we have shifted the difference onto credit cards. The shell game that we used to think we were good at has gotten more and more difficult as we’ve done “0%” balance transfers from Peter to Paul and vice versa, all the while the paycheck we’ve used to finance the whole thing has gotten more and more watered down. This has happened despite whatever raises we’ve gotten, and those have been shrinking as well.

What should we have done? We should have realized that this is not the President Bush that we grew up with in the 1980s. Not opening the reserves was a signal that higher prices were coming and quicker than we thought. We hollered when the gas hit $2. We moaned when it hit $3 and now that it is at $4 most of us are cussing. Those of you who don’t suffer from acute potty mouth, you’re cussing too. You’re feeling the same stuff the rest of us are. You’re just more elegant about how you express it. We know what you really mean when you say “Fiddle Faddle!” And if you’re a Galactica nerd, you’re saying “FRAK!” But seriously we should have started shortening vacations, combining and consolidating trips, eating out less, all the stuff the budget nerds tell you you need to do.

Would being more mindful of our spending have hurt the economy? Not in the sense you might be thinking and certainly not in the manner it is now. A reduction then would have clued the business community of what was coming. I doubt it would have stopped any of these price hikes in fuel. The people who could have stopped this do not listen.