Wednesday, September 29, 2004

The other thing that strikes me as absolutely insane about Bush is that we were, until quite recently, a bastion of hope and democracy in the world - despite all our faults. Now the rest of the world is looking at us as imperialists, with some scary military might. Unfortunately, we have a brutality entirely beyond any previous empire, since our conquests are almost ephemeral, having nothing to do with defending our borders or promoting an ideology of any kind, even an ideology of creating more markets. It's just a self-perpetuating rage, at a false sense of deprivation, almost as if we're so enamored of the idea of fire, maybe what petroleum is on this evotionary stretch, and don't realize that there are other, even better ways, of accomplishing the goals reached through consumption of a non-renewable resource (non-renewable relative, of course, since the sun will eventually burn out as well, or whatever subatomic particle we learn to harness millions of years from now may stop flowing through our solar system, etc...). God save us from the angry patriarchy, Muslim, Christian, Jew - of whatever belief system, at least to get us through the next several generations. 11:45:23 PM