-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-09-18 17:53:25 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>DasGoat has given us quite a large pill to swallow! I wish to state that
>many of his views are shared by me. In other areas of life it is apparent to
>me (he is coming from a political perspective for the most part, though not
>exclusively, my experience is sociologically, with people in personal
>relationships and group dynamics) that people really do, for the most part,
>fit the mold that DasGoat iterates for us so baldly and so correctly. People
>desire some indefinite change; "Let's get more freedom." (How is it defined?
>They don't know themselves.) "I hate the government, just look at what
>happened in (with). . . . Waco; Ruby Ridge, TWA800, the burdensome taxes, the
>terror tactics of the police, drug laws, mind control, media manipulation,
>the war in Kosovo, the bombing of Iraq, and on and on I could go. Each issue
>is not fully understood by those who cry the mantra of opposition. What do
>they want? They don't know, they just whine that "something's got to be
>done." Will they actually get off of their asses and DO something, ANYTHING
>AT ALL? In my experience the answer is NO. Now it is fair to add that in
>many, if not most or all, cases the people who do actually DO something are
>the first targeted with real weapons, be they physical, political, or
>emotional/manipulative. Having said that though, if one was REALLY serious
>about something needing to be done then the possibility, admittedly very
>real, of dying, or getting put away should be no cause for a total paralysis
>of action. That is the case in my experience, not as wide and impressive as
>MR. Goat's.
Thanks for "getting it," dude. As I hope everyone else has understood by
now, my post was a "Devil's Advocate" piece, expressing sentiments that I
don't ENTIRELY share (but share just enough to understand completely), to
give you all the otherwise improbable experience of being addressed, face to
face and with brutal honesty, by those on the opposite side of the equation
reflected in Conspiracy Theory. An encounter with your "Shadow," you might
say. There's something important EMOTIONALLY as well as INTELLECTUALLY to be
learned from such a "wake-up call," the equivalent of finding oneself one day
on a real battlefield in real war, stripped viscerally of all candy-coated
buffers against seeing the life-or-death realities of the "law of the
jungle," suddenly inescapably aware of what frighteningly thin ice the
artificially manufactured oasis of "security" in our society really rests on.
Better to face such a realization early, in order to steel oneself
emotionally, than too late -- when already enveloped by it without any
opportunity to prepare oneself fully for coping with the exigencies of "fight
or flight."
If it's any consolation to readers who may have felt antagonized by it,
unfairly so, this "bitter pill" is something I MYSELF have to swallow TOO and
it's just as unpleasant to ME. We can afford the luxury of being casually
indifferent to the Serpent in our Garden, but NOT when the same creature we
THINK we know rears its ugly head in full strength as a fire-breathing
Dragon. As no doubt some of you do now too, I fear for the future of our
nation and the fate of our (at least theoretical and tentative) "free
society, and it's becoming REAL fear, gut-level, not just a sentiment in the
head -- and I hope to God (or whatever the operative determinative of space,
time and personal fate is)-- that we, all of us, can be spared the ordeal of
experiencing life as it can be in a worst case scenario.
What should we DO? I'm more of a THINKER than a DOER, in case you hadn't
noticed.
I've got no no easy answers, even for myself; but it's necessary, IMHO, to
begin asking that question with a much more serious tone than we've been
doing up until this point.
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