Please Become More Selfish (Morford)

[chiburb]

Snip:

Everyone wants to know how they can join the revolt and punch a hole in the toxic BushCo bubble and deflect the bloated dumbed-down Wal-Mart-ization of the culture, and resist being soaked all the way through to the bone with the sad notion that this country really is jammed to the blindly patriotic gills with misguided terrified fools and simpletons and gun nuts, drunk on rabid GOP spin and Adam Sandler movies and generic Paxil.

This is what I get asked, all the time: What can I do? How can I fight this poisonous miasma of hate and violence and hollow BushCo smirks? Is this country really this blind? What has happened to us? Should I move to Canada? What the hell is wrong with Celine Dion?

Snip:

But goddammit, look. Look around. I do all that, and nothing changes. Still the world is imploding. Still murders and animal abuse and BushCo reaming the planet and it doesn't seem to get any better, and in fact only seems to be getting worse, no matter what I do. Right?

Wrong. The world changes with every intent. The world is affected by every single thing you do. They can't truly crush you, because working on yourself means your divine bullshit detector is cranked to 11 at all times and you laugh in the face of their debauchery and you do not eat at their trough of sameness and white noise and dread.

And this is the most powerful awareness of all.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/10/24/notes102403.DTL&type=printable


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1. another great piece from Moford....

seriously... he gives me hope, and assures me that there are more than just idiots and barbarians left in the world.

Thanks, Mr. Moford. ;-)

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. I LOVE Mark Morford

I haven't gotten my Friday email yet, but I went to the URL you listed because I just couldn't wait.

Mark Morford has got to be one of my 3 or 4 favorite journalists. He always has something good to say.

I'd highly recommend his 3 times weekly newsletter to anyone who doesn't get it.

Thanks for the post.

[chiburb]

3. I've said so many times...

Morford is the BEST "wordsmith" out there. To me he's a cross between Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson (in style), but with a heart and passion.
Even when he's not writing about Bushco he's a must-read!

[realFedUp]

4. His words are so juicy

[wabeewoman]

5. I was just coming in to post this comment

in the same column about William Rivers Pitt: Am coming to the not-so-slow conclusion that William Rivers Pitt over at truthout.org is one of the finest and most adept political/war columnists/commentators cranking copy today, and is becoming increasingly mandatory to read, and dances over the deep insult that is BushCo with aplomb and deadly accuracy, and if you've never read him, might as well start with the scathingly excellent Anybody But Bush.

Amen to that!!

[Avalon Sparks]

6. Even if his writing wasn't so wonderful~

I'd read his e-mail newsletters for the "Mullet Haiku's" alone!