A Chilling Consideration
Hey Folks,
I heard an Air America host say something like, “Either he’s [Bush] an idiot or the Neo Con agenda is to create a new Evil Empire – the Muslim world. It’s good for business.”
I don’t know whether you noticed, but when the Soviet Union collapsed, the right wing psychos – while celebrating wildly and demanding that “the Gypper” be carved on Rushmore – seemed to lose some of their focus.
All my life we had been kept in line by the boogey man, godless communism. Suddenly the threat was gone. What WOULD the reactionaries do? How WOULD they keep the great unwashed masses in line slaving away to make money for their betters?
I noticed right away, perhaps because I was teaching. Not long after the fall, the vampires started in on public schools. There wasn’t a day that some attack didn't fall upon the public school system.
It was a pain in the ass to anybody teaching school, but we were a pale imitation of the communist boogey man. After all, a first grader can hide under his desk to escape a nuclear attack, but hiding under the desk won’t fool the teacher.
It struck me that the fuckers who run this country were desperate to recreate the “foreign threat”; it works; they’re comfortable with it; and it’s good for business. Bush got elected/selected, in part, because of the Arabic boogey man.
It isn’t too far out to wonder if this whole fiasco is designed not to create client states in the Middle East – states that will lick our boots – so that we can control the flow of oil to our benefit rather than to the benefit of our competitors; but, rather, to create a new boogey man.
Personally, I believe it started out as the former. The chilling part is that now, with the original plan falling apart like cheap asphalt in a spring thaw, the “boogey” plan offers the Neo Coneheads an equally appealing alternative to “(subservient) nation building.”
A “Win-Win” situation for the crud that is Bush & Co. will NOT make for a Happy New Year.
- Uke Man
I heard an Air America host say something like, “Either he’s [Bush] an idiot or the Neo Con agenda is to create a new Evil Empire – the Muslim world. It’s good for business.”
I don’t know whether you noticed, but when the Soviet Union collapsed, the right wing psychos – while celebrating wildly and demanding that “the Gypper” be carved on Rushmore – seemed to lose some of their focus.
All my life we had been kept in line by the boogey man, godless communism. Suddenly the threat was gone. What WOULD the reactionaries do? How WOULD they keep the great unwashed masses in line slaving away to make money for their betters?
I noticed right away, perhaps because I was teaching. Not long after the fall, the vampires started in on public schools. There wasn’t a day that some attack didn't fall upon the public school system.
It was a pain in the ass to anybody teaching school, but we were a pale imitation of the communist boogey man. After all, a first grader can hide under his desk to escape a nuclear attack, but hiding under the desk won’t fool the teacher.
It struck me that the fuckers who run this country were desperate to recreate the “foreign threat”; it works; they’re comfortable with it; and it’s good for business. Bush got elected/selected, in part, because of the Arabic boogey man.
It isn’t too far out to wonder if this whole fiasco is designed not to create client states in the Middle East – states that will lick our boots – so that we can control the flow of oil to our benefit rather than to the benefit of our competitors; but, rather, to create a new boogey man.
Personally, I believe it started out as the former. The chilling part is that now, with the original plan falling apart like cheap asphalt in a spring thaw, the “boogey” plan offers the Neo Coneheads an equally appealing alternative to “(subservient) nation building.”
A “Win-Win” situation for the crud that is Bush & Co. will NOT make for a Happy New Year.
- Uke Man
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