[IP] a pirce very worth reading till the end SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL byJo
[ . . . ] By these terrible means, they will create a world where war conducted by any country but the United States will seem simply too risky and the Great American Peace will begin. Unregulated Global Corporatism will be the only permissible ideology, every human will have access to McDonald’s and the Home Shopping Network, all “news” will come through some variant of AOLTimeWarnerCNN, the Internet will be run by Microsoft, and so it will remain for a long time. Peace. On Prozac. If I were in charge, this is neither the flavor of peace I would prefer nor the way I would achieve it. But if I’d been in charge back in 1983, there might still be a Soviet Union and we might all still be waiting for the world to end in fifteen nuclear minutes.
What’s scarier than this theory is the notion that we might actually be following it.
I read this a month or so ago and was reminded of it again today when an otherwise reasonable friend opined that he thought G W Bush’s intellect is under-rated. While I’ll concede that he must has some level of smarts to get where he is, he’s not the one to be concerned about. The guy who ran the search for the VP candidate and found no better choice than himself is the one to watch.