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Thomas Vorce reporting from Grass Valley, CA
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Each day the real news gets more and more depressing. All the hopes and aspirations of an enlightened populace (that we call a democracy) folds into deep governmental complicities of intolerable crimes against humanity. All this deceit has been accomplished under the marquee of “freedom.”
Anyone with the sensitivity to object is classified as a liberal, communist, loser, wimp. And besides that they are “unpatriotic.” Ecology is equated with the golf course: advice and consent is the secret handshake, and defamation of character takes the place of true discourse. It's all in the deal, it's all in the points. What else can you expect from an educational system driven by the lottery?
The power to destroy the world is now vested in the hands of an Elmer Gantry presidency and the oval office might as well be a tent show rivival. For those who marginalize freedom of insight there is always "rapture" which is embraced with the same fervor as retirees who sought out paradise in Florida sixty years ago. Meanwhile, "George the Lesser" is meant to be lionized with the death of his mentor who massacred hundreds of thousands of innocent people so Coca Cola could triumph over what was left of national sovereignty. (Have any of you noticed that Coke and Pepsi are allowed to vend their products in high schools without faculty objections?) Television evangelists are consultants for those who seek revenge on literacy with the wisdom of fundamentalism and xenophobia. How can we have any foreign policy when our leaders and our people don’t even know where the countries are that are being vanquished in the name of liberty?
I was raised to believe that Hitler was evil and America was good for stopping him. Now America pays public relation companies to justify Hitleresque activities by investing storm troopers with names like “freedom fighters.” It’s enough to make anyone with a sophomoric education gag at the license taking place. But our leaders don’t seem to care and they continue to use heavy weight dialogue from sports, like finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is a “slam dunk.”
When England had the Common Wealth the Foreign Service was a dignified calling. Now with consultants looking to fatten their fees, you can kiss statesmanship goodbye. After all we can always carpet bomb our way to the bargaining table and that’s a lot more effective and faster then diplomacy.
Anyone with the sensitivity to object is classified as a liberal, communist, loser, wimp. And besides that they are “unpatriotic.” Ecology is equated with the golf course: advice and consent is the secret handshake, and defamation of character takes the place of true discourse. It's all in the deal, it's all in the points. What else can you expect from an educational system driven by the lottery?
The power to destroy the world is now vested in the hands of an Elmer Gantry presidency and the oval office might as well be a tent show rivival. For those who marginalize freedom of insight there is always "rapture" which is embraced with the same fervor as retirees who sought out paradise in Florida sixty years ago. Meanwhile, "George the Lesser" is meant to be lionized with the death of his mentor who massacred hundreds of thousands of innocent people so Coca Cola could triumph over what was left of national sovereignty. (Have any of you noticed that Coke and Pepsi are allowed to vend their products in high schools without faculty objections?) Television evangelists are consultants for those who seek revenge on literacy with the wisdom of fundamentalism and xenophobia. How can we have any foreign policy when our leaders and our people don’t even know where the countries are that are being vanquished in the name of liberty?
I was raised to believe that Hitler was evil and America was good for stopping him. Now America pays public relation companies to justify Hitleresque activities by investing storm troopers with names like “freedom fighters.” It’s enough to make anyone with a sophomoric education gag at the license taking place. But our leaders don’t seem to care and they continue to use heavy weight dialogue from sports, like finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is a “slam dunk.”
When England had the Common Wealth the Foreign Service was a dignified calling. Now with consultants looking to fatten their fees, you can kiss statesmanship goodbye. After all we can always carpet bomb our way to the bargaining table and that’s a lot more effective and faster then diplomacy.
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