Duh, like that's a point that really needs to be
made. As though all of South America isn't
"American" too.
Hal "If the brain were so simple we could understand
it, we would be so simple we couldn't."
--Lyall Watson
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On Sep 27, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
I have often written _USAmericans_ in order to make the point that
there are
a number of other countries on the continent
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: aarggh
[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....
