5.05.2003
The feared Republican Guard. The backbone of the regime. Fanatics. They survived the last war intact because they were withdrawn from the battlefield while other units, packed with ordinary draftees, were decimated. The Republican Guard was allowed to survive, and that’s how we found ourselves in the mess we’re in today. If only we’d confronted the Republican Guard then, forced them into combat, we wouldn’t be faced with the problem we have today: a mad, disastrous military campaign that is sure to ruin not only Iraq, but ultimately, the entire Middle East and with it America.
{the above is all that survived of last night's post- I worked a decent one out last night, and ended it with "thank yous" acknowledging the kind notes and resource hints you share that remind me the truths we say and stand up for are important, the media is not serving our democratic needs and we are, most importantly, acting as a far flung community when we get and share pertinent information, spreading it among our fellows that would just be getting infotainment or 'news lite' at best from thier tv. That denies the whole shebang of the compartmentalized, naive 'shopper' watching tv to know how to dress and what to think and talk about citizen paradigm, denying the hollowness of the ever shifting 'rationales' of governance we're supposed to swallow thoughtlessly, catalyzing our lives around doing and being, learning and sharing- you know, like back before tv when people conversed about things that mattered like politics and the larger questions of the human experience. Back when people had sex rather than watching just plain dumb sitcoms refer to it to a chorus of canned laughter....
Breaking out of the passive consumerist mold that has been fosted on society is what I'm ranting about. Conscious people sharing puts the lie to Thoreau's quote about the "masses of people leading lives of quiet desperation".
Talk with people you know.
This project (EP) is important to me; the frustrations of lack of time or computer problems or server down keeping me from researching and producing a good posting hit deep. Thanks for coming by. 5.06.03}
5/05/2003
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