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SELF-TERRORIZING COUNTRY
by Patrick Gunkel Jesus Christ, the sickening crap one has to listen to in these political conventions, when adult human beings for whatever that is worth unblushingly show themselves to be nothing more than children waving rattles, reciting nursery rhymes, tooting horns, tearfully applauding mindless mumbo-jumbo and transparent lies, and then crapping in their diapers.Now we have the Republicans exploitatively and shamelessly wallowing in the fundamentally trivial killing of 3,000 human beings on one day a mere 100,000th of the country as though it were of some Apocalyptic significance, instead of a speck against historical tragedies that would have towered over it like cumulonimbus clouds; and milking the pain for all it is worth. Again and again one tries to pound home the fact that such a ratio is equivalent to 1 death in three years in a town of 100,000 during which 4,054 OTHER people would have died of natural causes, car accidents, falls down stairs, or a few homicides.So who honestly gives a damn, except the bereaved who damn well deserve their private mourning, stripped of politicians and their simpleminded followers or melodramatic sheep. Who needs such contemptible people about to play with truth and make knots of grace and rub their feet on decency, in their enormous self-love and infatuation with slogans fit only for parrots and toilet paper commercials? Who needs their intrusive and protrusive ugliness?People - wake up! Wake up! The school of life does not end with a college diploma it BEGINS when one leaves that bit of nothing behind one in the dirt, and faces Reality at last, in all its turns and twists and noble crags and the clear blue sky of ascending reason and dispassion.The current fear of terror is commensurate to a quivering fear of ones own shadow which grows ever longer as the sun sets on common sense.Neither you nor I have reason to fear terror from abroad, but if we DO feel and give in to this terror, and fight this shadow, we as a nation will enlarge it until it stands over us like the highest and most brutal mountain on earth.There is in fact just one way to fight the few terrorists of this world successfully and with dignity, but it guarantees their eventual extinction: By not giving them our fear, and largely ignoring them. Give them more and they are more apt to feed on it and grow, and in the end they will have us in their power, if they do not already through our foolish cowardice. Our statesmen must stop exploiting fear for their own ends. Otherwise they themselves are little better than terrorists, and may even become the worst terrorists of all, the people who have finally stepped on the flower of human life, and crushed it. Patrick GunkelWoods Hole, 2004 August 31. |
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