Al Gore and the Assault on reason

[nadinbrzezinski]

so payday finally came and I was able to get myself a copy.

I started readying it... and the caller today to Randi's show that compared him to Thomas Paine is RIGHT ON TARGET

Sadly... our modern Thomas Paine will not have the effect the first one had.

Why?

read the book....

People don't read no more... that's why

Oh and sadly today I concluded what I have been fearing for a while

I have completely lost faith in the American System (which is dead, the death certificate can be dated to December 12, 2000), and in the American people

As long as the latter have enough distractions, the Americans Empire will go on regardless of who is in power. D, R does not matter, hell you could put a Green in there, does not matter. It is the Historical logic of Empires (read the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon if you are missing what I am saying, or Kennedy's book on Empires in the 1980s, or many other works on the subject)

Sorry folks, but the Republic is dead... and Thomas Paine (Al Gore) has the reason why in the book. Just like Rome, not that Al made that point... the resurgence of religion over reason, and auxiliary troops to fight the wars, our Empire is now well on its way to a fantastic crash and burn.

Oh and I started readying it at a local Japanese restaurant, decided to treat myself to the Curry they make... if looks could kill from several of the rest of the dinners... and that is part of the problem.

RIP American Democracy, 1776-2000... like all democracies in the end they wither and die.

Now that does not mean I will stop fighting, after all nature and politics abhors a vacuum, and we are in the midst of one. But the delusion that we can save a long gone patient is now gone.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. You obviously have not gotten to the last chapter

Democracy is not dead.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Granted I haven't and will see

but I am also going from the logic, the HISTORICAL logic of Empires

Athens crossed its rubicon, so did Rome, and neither came back

We did... at least in my view... but I will continue readying

[Mabus]

3. Don't give up

Look at what Gore has accomplished with AIT (the movie and the books). He got them thinking then he got people talking. More importantly, he reached people. And considering what the press did to him he did it against all odds. He gets people motivated. The book was number one. I'm not giving up yet. I think Gore's influence is still spreading.

[frogcycle]

4. sadly, i agree with you

we will probably go through a tumultuous decade or two of autocratic rule once the Constitution is officially scrapped - maybe even a generation or two - and then some bright-eyed optimistic revolutionaries will read an old unburned history book that they find in a barn or somewhere, and they'll be inspired and throw over the tyrants. Pretty much what we were supposed to get the Iraqis to do after Gulf War I. Let's hope they don't get the treatment he gave the Kurds.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I don't expect the country to survie either

and I have explained why and the true logic of civil war in other threads as well

But I gave up before I fliped the first page of the book. It hit me today like a bag of bricks as I was driving to the bookstore...