Friday, September 03, 2004


Listening to Bush tonight, I believe the man is sincere. He thinks the United States can make the world safer through hard hand, despite all the lessons through the ages that you can't win against a guerilla war, against people in their own country, geographical or, in this case, ideological, through traditional military force. It looks good, makes you look like you are acting decisively, while you are, meanwhile, doing exactly what the terrorists want you to do - legitimize their existence, and give them rationale and recruits for future acts of terror.

Hearing him speak about the politics of tax and spend being dead, that his conservativism represents the new politics seems so Orwellian. His politics represents the old politics, the old politics of feudalism, with a coca cola soma smile.

The thing is - I understand. There's something comforting in this complex world of harking back to old lines, simpler times, man and woman, white men with guns, rich people controlling the government. But it's that very politic that will destroy the United States in the next 10 years.

I think that may explain, on some collective level, why there is such divisiveness in this country today. It's not about different policies - this election represents a small step towards adjusting trajectory, with about forty-four percent of the voting population voting out of irrational fear, limbic brain, forty-four percent who basically get that the market is not the only, nor the best means, of advancing humanity, and single digits of people who are actually rationally voting out of self interest for the old, individuated self, the short term, seasonal human, and single digits of people who are actually rationally voting because they understand the importance of future generations, evolving out of compassion, not conflict.

1:50:11 AM