The other day I saw a monster truck with a mean and stupid scrawl all over the windows. It was even on the windshield. Kill Sadam, Kill Osama Bin Laden. Whack Iraq. The only thing we've accomplished of that trifecta is the latter and boy did we whack Iraq. Ain't America proud? The driver was one of the skin headed, clunky young Americans who looks mean and stupid. Thank God they are a minority where I live, but they may be in the majority in many parts of this country. George Bush has got them under his thumb, just like Hitler did in Germany. It makes no more sense that a failed sociopathic painter could mesmerize people than it does for a failed sociopathic businessmen with dyslexia to attract such hero worship. However, The president is mean and stupid and he attracts mean and stupid idolizers. They can identify with him.
When did so many Americans become mean and stupid, or have we always been this way? It makes you wonder when you consider how our forefathers dealt with the Native Americans who were here first. Although Jefferson, Adams, Washington and the rest of the framers of the Constitution weren't mean and stupid, a lot of bad dumb people emigrated here from Europe and spread out into the hinterlands. Uneducated and primitive, they had mean and stupid children, who had more mean and stupid children, who had...
Mean and stupid people enjoy war. It gives them a rationale for their violent natures. A country that glorifies war is saying that killing is pleasurable, is allowing the beast in all of us to reign supreme. Remember our fearful leader likes killing as long as he doesn't have to get his hands dirty. He has Mars in Virgo--cleanliness is next to godliness. Had he not gone AWOL from the war in Vietnam, maybe things would be different. He would either be dead now, a lunatic, or maybe just maybe he would have understood how disgusting war really is.
There is an excellent article about war in the April 21 edition of The Nation. Please read, The Press and the Myths of War by Chris Hedges. Hedges, a writer for the NY Times, says that "The contagion of war, of the siren call of the nation, is so strong that most cannot resist." Unlike the president, vice president, and Rumsfeld, the journalist has seen many wars. He "covered the insurgencies in El Salvador. Went to Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Columbia, civil wars in Sudan and Yeman, uprisings in Algeria and the Punjab, the fall of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, the Gulf War, the Kurdish rebellions in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, the war in Bosnia and finally Kosovo." Unlike members of the Bush administration he's seen the horrors of war. He says that "War itself is venal, dirty, confusing and perhaps the most potent narcotic invented by mankind...If we saw how war turns young people into intoxicated killers, how it gives soldiers a license to destroy not only things but other human beings, and if we saw the perverse thrill such destruction brings, we would be horrified and frightened."
There's an aspect in the U.S. chart that describes the glorification of war. Mean and stupid Americans are caught in the Mars(violence) Neptune(delusion) black sludge of HOLY WAR and they like it. It's like a video game or a real reality show, not like one of those phony ones. Unfortunately, the only way to get these people to climb out of the delusional Mars/Neptune muck of violence is to hit them where they hurt--in the pocketbook. I'm afraid we're in for some really awful times economically, if God has anything to do with this mess.
Another horrible by product of this disgusting war is the looting and destruction that's going on now that apparently the United States won't stop. Rumsfeld thinks chaos and destruction goes along with democracy. "It's untidy, and freedom's untidy," he said, jabbing his hand in the air. "Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things." Of course, if there was looting and chaos here, he wouldn't like it. Besides killing, I think Bush likes chaos too, just like his Friend that lives in the Hot Place.
Of course, there are lot of good things to say about America, but not at this juncture. I can still say, however, that there are many wonderful brave and brilliant Americans who despise what Bush is doing to our country and the rest of the world. I pray that the time will come again when we can be proud of a country that once proclaimed, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
