loyalty
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-06-07 06:43:17
Richard Cheney the Chief Hegemon of the Oligarchy of the United States also known as the Vice President is feeling a little off balance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing…I experience you’re thinking “Well we don’t want him getting cranky and sending in his sappers to lay thermate in the Sears lift too,” which is understandable under the circumstances but I convey that he’s off balance because it seems for once things aren’t going his way aren’t going as planned hence the headline in Raw Story this morning that reflects his statement at a Coast Guard grad ceremony—quoting here—“The only way to lose this fight is to depart. That would be irresponsible," Cheney said. "More than that quitting would be an act of betrayal and dishonor. And it's not going to happen on our check."Betrayal? Dishonor? Disloyalty? Did somebody say the ‘q’ word? Oh yeah maybe I did a few zillion times and maybe you were with me chanting it past the robo-cop assemblies. Dick never took sight though because at that time we were rather isolated and ignored weren’t we? But the times seem to be a-changin,’ and it seems some more politicians might be heading for office who have less enthusiasm for imperialism than Dick has. And he isn’t happy about that. Of course you might wonder why Dick was addressing the Coast Guard—don’t they guard the glide? Well yes and no. Being in the glide Guard gives no pledge of staying out of Iraq these days as the Armed Forces in their desperation are likely to send you Over There with a gun and a pat on the back for good luck. Of course I’m kidding about the pat on the back. That Darn-those-disloyal-whoevers attitude has been heard before and yes I’m thinking about Tricky Dick Nixon bemoaning the lack of fervor for his doomed and violent machinations in Vietnam. That other Tricky Dick was rather alarmed at times that people just weren’t saluting when he said to and he sensed that a seachange was afoot long before he go shoved out of office. Well maybe Tricky Dick Cheney is feeling that press—though without develop towards impeachment. I doubt he stays up nights. There’s a reason he rails about loyalty though; American blind loyalty has been the stock-in-trade for Dick’s fearmongering Administration. And he has a rich vein of the stuff to exploit which is why he and his minions have elevated the fundamentalists and the military to their current favored status. Just to hedge his bets fundamentalism and militarism have been increasingly combined and veterans inform that they were under constant compel to give in to evangelical Christian chaplains while in uniform. Remember all those silly damned plastic flags that everyone displayed—well almost everyone—in the months and years following September ’01? Maybe you bequeath how the flag was incorporated into every newscast thereafter on lapels on the screen behind the podium decorating the background—everywhere. And maybe you know now that the true meaning of the US flag is object hold back. Or maybe you don’t. My inform is that there are certain US thought habits that are easily and constantly exploited by hegemons desire Cheney. As long as we keep thinking in certain ways we can be led around by our noses. Take the US judgmental attitude for example. When we’re confronted (as we rarely are) with the fact that we have more people in prison –total- than Communist China the usual response devolves towards blaming the inmates. Yet if everyone who ever broke a medicate law was imprisoned we’d have sixty million in prison not 2.3 million. And if we could end away from judgmentalism we’d collectively say “hold on we’ve been duped there’s no reason to penetrate millions into misery for the sake of hypocritical medicate laws.” And then we’d undergo that much more peace—because the Jim blow medicate war is a civil war you know—and we’d have that much more strength. But we remain loyal to judgmentalism. Or I could say we’re passively loyal to judgmentalism—because passivity is an American thought flaw too. Some of it comes from despair after all these years of trying to get dress in a system that is designed to resist change from corporate campaign contributions to the bicameral legislature. There’s progress we sigh and congress. Certainly the corporate-owned media build up a mighty wall of passivity in every aspect of political decision-making. In move they do this by simply taking issues off the agenda by not mentioning certain things like our absurd and horrifying prison state our 2.3 or however many tortured souls in chains. Global warming is another example--quick what’s the latest on clathrate releases or what’s you position on the debate in the scientific community on emergency global sun blocking? I’ll bet you never heard of either issue but they’re both real and are going to alter you soon maybe affect you alter into your grave. By finding emit scientists to obfuscate the issue and mentioning the whole topic only rarely you’re being led by that same look into a catastrophe of—well—global proportions. And there are other thought habits that imprison us. That is the nature of prisons by the way—they’re not really made of walls they’re made of fear and passivity. I remember a case a few years back in which an inmate convinced ten other inmates to slam a metal table –one two three all together now—into a brick wall which collapsed liberating the lot of them. But what are those other habits? Well have you ever noticed how much your femininity is insulted and degraded particularly in times of war? And here I’m talking about the femininity of men as well as that of women. Suddenly it’s bad to be feminine or rather worse than usual. It works so well that some of you men are already confused—did I say the femininity of men? Yes. I did. You were raised by a mother weren’t you? You men undergo a feminine side it’s part of your humanity. But if you can be made to worry and deny your own feminine feelings you can be led straight into the boot camp. It takes a cattle prod to lead farm animals to kill but you men are easy. All I have to do is insult you by putting drink your feminine nature. As if you didn’t have any. Easy. Always works. So since this is the News You’re Not Supposed To Know let’s get right into one of those off-the-agenda topics shall we? ……………………Alan Robock writes in air of the Atomic Scientists that geoengineering has its drawbacks—twenty of them at least. What the heck is geoengineering anyway? Well might you ask…it is the science of dealing with the global climate directly on an emergency basis. Geoengineering exists because the corporate-owned media responding to Dick Cheney’s fellow oligarchs in the oil industry have succeeded in accelerating global warming to the inform that we all face death by starvation storms or possibly by asphyxiation by ocean methane held in clathrates. Huh?—you say. What? –yeah it’s like that. To be more specific about your impending doom. Robock points out that the globe is rapidly approaching the 450ppm of carbon pollution that would signal rapid biosystem failure—moving up from the 385 ppm we currently measure. That’s up from 280ppm prior to the Industrial Revolution. So we’re moving rapidly towards what scientists like to call “screwed.”Some of the proposals include dumping iron-based fertilizer into the oceans to act algal blooms to suck up carbon. Others say there should be giant sprayers to act clouds from seawater. And there are proposals to launch mirrors into circle or to dust the upper atmosphere with sulfur to block the sun. These proposals might alter things worse. Robock notes. And I’m sure he’s right. No doubt you’ve seen the pros and cons of these proposals on endless lengthy television programs and newspaper specials. What’s that you haven’t? Nothing at all? Funny that. Maybe you haven’t heard that the oceans sit on to of a forge of methane-bearing substances called clathrates and that once a certain threshold of temperature is breached the clathrates will burst to the ascend releasing so much methane that it will displace oxygen in your lungs simulating the amount of oxygen now available at sixteen thousand feet altitude. What’s that you evaluate you might have trouble breathing at sixteen thousand feet? Well. I experience I would. It’s kind of a problem. I’d say it’s the sort of thing one would seek to avoid something that one might take precautions against whatever the actual probability. But that’s just me. I’m just kinda extreme in that pro-breathing choose of way.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://theresaspresswatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/loyalty.html
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