Date: July 9, 2005 2:24:08 PM PDT
Subject: [ctrl] The Inevitability of George W. Bush
July 9 / 10, 2005
A Man for Our Times
The Inevitability of George W. Bush
By BEN TRIPP
With regrets for all the chaos and death and destruction, it was necessary that
George W. Bush should ascend to power and retain it for two terms of office. He is a
singularly giftless man, but he brings one gift to everyone: disaster. Placed at the
pinnacle of the greatest military empire in human history, its wealth and reach
unimaginable in Caesar's day, equipped with every conceivable advantage that the
very most powerful, influential cabals of rulership and commerce and warmaking can
bestow, all of their collective beneficence concentrated behind his every purpose, yet
he will fail.
Say what you will about the accomplices secretly running the show: Bush himself is
the president. He is no dupe. A slobbering cretin nearly incapable of forming a
coherent thought, or of operating a bicycle on a hill without running over a policeman;
a feckless, soulless meta-bureaucrat with the attention span of a hydroencephalitic
flea preoccupied with revenge, machismo, booze, and proving to his father he's not a
latent homosexual: these things he indubitably is. But he's not a puppet merely. It is
his
magical ability to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory that will end America's
unsuitable world domination. Then we can get on with averting the next ice age. Far
too late to save what's left of the world as we know it, but that's the cosmic joke our
species seems never to get, no matter how often the punch line is repeated.
Bush is only the latest of many such necessary evildoers. There's always somebody.
Hitler, an even more egregious schmekel than G.W. Bush, was the inevitable
instrument of the destruction of Europe as it had been known for a thousand years.
Things simply could not remain as they were, and he saw to it that they didn't. The
Great War wasn't enough of a hint for those old countries whose pastime it had long
been to annex each other and swap royal bloodlines, feeding their various empires
on the flesh of distant lands. So along came Hitler with WWII. Unfortunately America,
which came late to both World Wars, got to feeling superior and decided an empire
could be done properly: it just needed to be run by folks that were elected, not
handed the job through fortunate birth. We set about the task, our elected leaders
passing the torch from one grasping claw to the next, and built up a pretty good
portfolio of client states and resource-rich territories outside our borders. That
showed those old-Europe types!
Here's the problem. Empire is the sole purpose and certain downfall of political
power. We got our post-European empire sure enough, paddling around in various
bits of Asia before settling on oil-rich climes at the buckle between Eurasian shirt and
African trousers. We got fat and complacent and began to believe our own press
about the goodness and greatness and rightness of America, her jiggle & kill blow-
dried Surfer Jesus playtime commercial culture, anaesthetic low-calorie pilsner
beers, and infinite opportunity for the right blend of complexion and connection. We
began to imagine we were shaping the world to fit our image.
This is the first symptom of a dying empire. Check out this kickin' toga, bro. Pretty
soon everybody will be wearing them instead of pants. Hey, are those Visigoths? The
second symptom is when the leaders start electing themselves by divine right or
noble blood. The final symptom is that the popular weal ceases to be a factor in
governance. One might argue that most empires were founded and maintained
without the popular weal being considered at all, but this is simplistic. Empires rely on
a mutual parasitism between leaders and people: you send us to war, we get cheap
resources (or Poland). That sort of thing. Eventually, the rulers start running the show
entirely for their own benefit, putting increasing downward pressure on the populace
until society breaks down like my Fiat Cinquecento. Bingo! The spoils of a sprawling,
resource-grabbing common enterprise have been diverted to a self-selecting few.
The ticks are exsanguinating the hyena. What's next? A leader must emerge from
the top ranks to ruin everything, pronto.
That leader is George W. Bush. He brings his gift of failure to our nation and the
world. That is the real similarity between him and Adolf Hitler. And various Caesars.
And Richard of the Crusades. They come along at a time when empires need
collapsing, after which the common business of mankind can proceed. That said, I'm
hoping he gets it over with soonI'd look awful in a toga.
Ben Tripp is an independent filmmaker and all-around swine. His book, Square In
The Nuts, may be purchased here, with other outlets to follow:
Alamaine
Grand Forks, ND, US of A
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