[unhinged rant mode on] i would like the term "american" to be struck from any discussion involving united statesians. i'm tired of this stupid, self-centered, overblown egomaniac of a country running around promoting itself as "america" (i refuse to "capitalize" it!). it is not america, america is the continent that the european diaspora landed on, destroying much of the indigenous population. and thank god the united states didn't devour the whole of the continent! there are still a few buffer zones which may protect some of what remaining value is left in the receding wild. but at the same time, let's not let our loathing of nationalism make us forget that there is a deeper disturbance in the force here, and that is the untethered flow of capital and labor being wielded by multi-national corporations, sans frontier, the world is becoming increasingly class-based in place of the old nationalism. all you have to do to see that is watch where the wealthy tourists go when they visit a city. they go to the zones where their foreign class analogs go. the rainforest can be destroyed by one nationality as well as any other when they're trying to grab what they can to keep themselves propped up over and above the unwashed others. if i have to watch another pinched smile handshake between two suited "alpha males" as they join forces for [insert destructive activity here, one of the best examples is probably real estate "development"] i'm going to go down and register myself as a card carrying member of the voluntary human extinction movement. these things have been messed up and headed for disaster at least since before i was born, and i can't stand to watch this blind idiot glee as these fucktards drag what bit of hope for the world is left through this swamp of lies and arrogance and violence and , oh goddamn it! i've just had enough of all this shit! they are itchin' for a fight, and i'd like to goddamn give it to them. you can't tell me that it's lost yet, but i realize the odds (and the power, military, media, otherwise) is stacked against us. but all they have to go on is duping the people and selling them fear. the rest of us have our humanity and our OWN GODDAMN MINDS that operate as freely as we're capable, which may not be much, having been raised in this hell hole.
anyone who hasn't noticed during the last few decades that the simulations of our entertainment industries have become more and more programmed, more and more formulized, more and more moralistic, well then you just haven't been paying attention. darth vader and his henchmen ensconsed themselves into power by taking our critical faculties away, piece by piece. and then selling the docile masses a load of kool-aid. drink it up, YUM! go ahead and believe you're so fucking clever, right up to the point when everything becomes unsustainably broken. we may be there already! happy hell on earth day! [unhinged rant mode off] phew.... i guess i feel ?better? On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Ryan Whyte wrote: > now the 'intelligent design' debate is on in the US and something like > 2/3rds of americans think creationism should be taught in schools; > meanwhile, Bush wants to spend billions going to the moon to build roads > there, as if the war and hurricane cleanup weren't costly enough and the > gap between rich and poor not a shameful howling chasm. (not that canada > is any better, today I read that we've decided to share nuclear technology > with, wait for it...India, just as the liberals announce no new money for > aboriginal health and communities. and we're just itching to ramp up trade > with China, that bastion of freedoms). technofetishism and religion go > hand in hand, and our leaders evidently wish to kill us all on the way to > destroying our ability to reason. Michael Ignatief advises the democrats, > possibly the most useless party in the history of mankind, not to talk > down to religious folks. but that would require a saintliness I for one do > not possess.... >
