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Edited on Mon Jan-10-05 08:04 PM by bain_sidhe
I started blogging about a week ago, as part of my New Year's resolution to write more. So far, the blog is just a mish-mash of musing about books, politics, and life, but I just wrote one I thought people here might find interesting... Pogo Was Right
In perhaps the most famous quote from a cartoon character, Walt Kelly’s Pogo once announced, “We have met the enemy, and he is us!” Oh, I don’t mean me, and probably not you, if you’re reading this (unless you’re here to gather material for hate mail.) I mean the Me-ist ‘Murkins who populate this country in ever-increasing numbers.
I look at George W. Bullshit, and I see, not the modern day Trilby of Karl Rove’s modern day Svengali, nor the epitome of evil decried by some of my fellow progressives, not even the dim-witted but politically marketable puppet of the neocons that some moderates see; no, when I look at George W. Bullshit, I see the incarnation of an unpleasant - and growing - segment of the American public.
George W. Bullshit is every jerk in a traffic backup who drives along the shoulder to get to the front of the line, because after all, his time is ever so much more important than your time. He’s every cretinous denizen of the supermarket who parks his shopping cart in the middle of the aisle while he blathers away on his cell phone, oblivious to your efforts to get by. He’s every moron who pulls out in front of you in traffic because, after all “you have plenty of time to stop,” and your right of way has less moral force than his need to get out of the driveway, side street, parking lot, or whatever, right now.
George W. Bullshit isn’t trying to hurt the poor, or the middle class, or the soldiers, or the liberals, or the environmentalists, or anybody else he appalls with his policies. If his actions hurt them, it’s not by design or purpose, but simply because he’s oblivious to the existence of anyone but himself. He just doesn’t notice them trying to get by, with their malnourished kids, or Pell-grant applications, or unarmored humvees, or shrinking greenspace, or deciding whether to pay for food or medicine. After all, his needs, or wants, or rights are ever so much more important than their needs, or wants, or rights.
I run into (and afoul of) these people every time I leave the house. They seem to have reached critical mass. So, I really no longer wonder why Bullshit got re-elected. After all, the pundits keep telling us people prefer to vote for someone who is “like them.” So they did. If you want to see the blog, it's at http://www.webfaerie.com/faerie_bytes/I'll be back later, but right now, I'm off to watch 24! |
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