From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 23:34:51 MST
WARNING!
The following may not be helpful, but hey!, every so
often one must clear the pipes.
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Unless you've learned the secret, the secret of love,
you should definitely read no further.
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Do not try this at home.
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--- Amara Graps <amara@amara.com> wrote:
> Jef:
> >I'm happy to be an American, and proud of my
country's strengths,
> I see and hear this more and more and more, in
conversations with Americans of every kind. I wonder
there is a large television blaring these kinds of
words in people's homes so that after a while it is
picked up by osmosis,...
Exactly right, Amara. Exactly. Blaring every
conceivable spin of the glory of America and the
perfidy of Saddam and Islam 100% of the time. With
exactly the results you see and would naturally
expect. Exactly the results DESIRED (by the
broadcasters/govt): a complete disconnect of the vast
majority of the American people from geopolitical
reality. Now they love big brother, and hate whom
they are told to hate.
Personally, I thought Reagan's election marked the
beginning of the end of the American experiment. Now
we're moving into the 'perpetual war' phase, as the
myth builders try to sustain their myth when
confronted by the irrefutable reality of destruction
and self-destruction.
I was just watching the news yesterday, interviews of
people on the street, in Iraq, women mostly. As
surely as domestic propaganda has destroyed the
average American's grasp on reality--replacing it with
the war cry--so the Iraqi press appears to have
completely and successfully persuaded the Iraqi people
of Saddam's rectitude and of the evil of the
American/Zionist plan to destroy Iraq. I mention this
because American TV tries to persuade Americans that
the war will be easy--a turkey shoot like 1991--that
the Iraqi Republican Guard will defect, that the Iraqi
people, in a constant state of disaffection and an
imminent state of rebellion will welcome the
Americans, and that the Kurds and the expatriate Iraqi
opposition can handle the ground fighting for us like
the Northern Alliance did in Afghanistan. There is no
hint that the Iraqi people, being as completely
indoctrinated as are the Americans (but of course from
the opposite perspective) may not cooperate.
I worry--apart from the Orwellian perpetual war of
political opportunism, which really is the far greater
problem--that an entirely different sort of war may be
looming. The Kurds have multi-decade experience with
American duplicity, and might easily take receipt of
substantial weaponry, and then, after securing
'Kurdistan', decline to go to Baghdad. "Leave that
for the Americans." Then, I worry that
building-to-building urban warfare in the sprawl of
Baghdad will bog down the Americans in a bloodbath
that brings the unspinnable truth home to the American
people. But, by then, dragged into this business by
the Bushman, Americans will feel 'committed', and
obligated to support and follow through. As per usual,
the death and destruction will then escalate as the
Bush regime tries to get out of trouble by 'winning',
(kind of like the Russians are doing in Chechnya, but
on a grander scale and with full on media coverage)
with the whole world watching.
Oh, yeah! And no one mentions the unpredictability of
these sorts of events. Think Saddam is going to
conform to the US war plan? Riiiiight! And the
Israelis with their vast war machine and ~200 nuclear
weapons, what will they do? And Osama, newly returned
from 'retirement' and itchin' to play a
hand--operating by his own pleasantly different set of
rules--in America's moment of critical engagement?
And Hamas and Hezbollah and god knows who else with a
score to settle, cloaked, mayhaps, in anonymity by the
fog of war?
And "Homeland Security" nowhere in sight.
Everything about this screams "Major fuck-up coming!"
Hope I'm wrong. Hope I'm right. (I'm probably wrong.
The Ay-rabs are incredibly stupid.) Anyway, between
Bush and Saddam you've got one major clash of
psychopaths. Lovely.
PS I'm living in Canada now, as I may have told you.
I'm safe. So "Give me my war TV! Bring it on! 9-11
was for openers. Rivetting! Now I want to see a
multimegaton-yield nuclear detonation
incinerate/obliterate millions of human beings live on
CNN! Don't you?"
"Deliver the promise of 'Trinity' at last, to my
eyeballs, in my living room, on the big screen (I've
got a fifty-on incher, baby!), in full Dolby surround
sound, flags waving, the national anthem blaring.
It's my right. I'm an American!"
The secret, of course, is to learn to love big
brother, deeply, completely. With a pure,
unconditional love that says "You are a God and I am
nothing! Let me serve you. Let me give my
everything, even my life, most particularly my life,
joyously, to you. Let me be your Lewinsky."
That's the ticket.
Sometimes I wish *I* was a terrorist.
Best, Jeff Davis
"We call someone insane who does not believe as we do
to an outrageous extent."
Charles McCabe
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