Posthuman Blues

It must be real fucking easy to condemn a bunch of teenage soldiers to possible death when you're a "born-again Christian" who thinks that people have immortal souls that go to Heaven when they die. Let's see what you've got, Bush. Suit up, parachute into Baghdad and give this country a lesson in patriotism. God's on your side, after all.

I think I finally realized what this insanity might be about. Rumsfeld may well be a complete bloody idiot, but my paranoid side says he's craftier than the Iraq "liberation" disaster would have us think. To maintain a "New World Order," one must have an equally pervasive New World Disorder. Hence a swiftly crumbling relationship with the Muslim world that will very likely keep us up to our necks "liberating" neighbor countries for years, if not decades. Oh, yeah -- and it plays off America's most bigoted, xenophobic fears, too, ensuring that everyone's too busy "supporting our troops" to get a straight answer.

Perhaps grotesqueries like this are what our factory-like public "schools" are really all about: deprive a child access to critical and creative thought and you wind up with a malleable, broken excuse for a human being that's good for basically one thing: following orders. A lot of these drones are likely to join the armed forces -- another plus; the New World Order will require a lot of meat if the festivities are to continue...

The US has launched probes to the planets, sent humans to the Moon, erected fantastic cities, and produced brilliant art. A nation that can do these things can remove one sad, twisted fuck from an office he was never elected to in the first place.