Everything is sooo surreal
nowadays.
This very second on
television, a virtual goddess reads a newscast headlined by war and
terrorism. Every other sentence contains the currently obligatory Al
Qaida reference and/or strings of Arabian sounding names like Akhmed
Akhbar-Akhmad, Sheikh Omar Whatabooti, or Yusef Mohammed Ali-baba
whatever, in connection with yet another Moslem plot to highjack
commercial airliners in terror-suicide strikes. Yes, in every cave
these days, it seems, behind every dark corner, there is something
dire and sinister poised to wreak the next horrible holocaust or other
on helpless Americans. "Undisclosed official sources" reveal
that "intelligence reports" indicate more plans (though
never time or target specific) of fanatical Moslem extremists who
dangerously threaten innocent Americans, the "American way of
life," and the very fabric of Western democracy!
I guess folks are used to the
message by now, if not completely numbed by the constant repetition.
The propaganda seems to be working, too, by cracky! It looks like most
everyone is just pretty much quietly going along with Washington
City's imperial march to Armageddon, with an occasional grumble
perhaps, but going along nonetheless. (Except us
"whacko-libertarian nutcases," of course!)
Is this ironic? The
news-reading goddess on the Empire channel is Rudi Bahktiar. She is
the daughter of gen-u-wine, honest to goodness Iranian parents.
Actually, there's a whole province named Bahktiar where they come
from, directly adjacent to the Iraqi border, very near Baghdad, no
less. It just doesn't get much more Persian than that, brother!
The irony is watching this
stunningly beautiful, young Iranian-American, Cally-fore-nee-ah girl,
effortlessly spinning the Empire's Middle Eastern adventurism and its
attendant murder and mayhem, in such a detached, matter-of-factly
casual manner, almost Borg-like, all in her ear-pleasing, perfectly
grammatical and uninflected, homogenous American English.
She's damn near the perfect
talking head/public personality/government tool: mythically beautiful
and linguistically competent all at once, and strikingly ethnic, too.
That ethnicity is distracting, though, at least to us
"really" whacko-libertarian nutcases. Do Borgs/does Borg
have blood, I forget? Maybe Borg's blood can't be thicker than water,
but it's really a moot point, in any case. Bahktiar's smoldering sex
appeal trumps all. It's surreal!
The state of the
"union" is surreal, too. Increasingly onerous and
totalitarian "union" policy emanating from the ivory towers
of Washington City is effectively fomenting class warfare in America,
and indeed, by extension, around the whole tech-shrunken and volatile,
smaller modern world. The two basic warring classes don't ever change
and are as old as the hills: "Us" and "Them."
"Us" are poor folks
just trying to provide for themselves and theirs as best they can,
working hard and saving frugally, respecting human dignity and dealing
honestly with others.
"Them" are the
elites and elitists (there are lists), the bureaucrats (it's a long
list) and the welfare/warfare beneficiaries (it's a long, long list),
who feed and worship at the altar of state, praying, as it were, for
the machine to ensure their continuing comfort . . . extracted from
"Us."
"Us" is expected to
pay for everything by "Them." If "Us" doesn't work
hard enough and pay for everything, "Them" will somehow be
wronged because the incompetent servant, "Us," didn't bring
out all of the free lunch "Them" has ordered.
Once "Them's"
appetite is whetted, "Them's" avarice seems appreciably
diminished only in death. To say that the current pernicious excesses
in Washington City are inherently pregnant with the seed of a new
revolution is probably not shockingly revelatory, but that revolt's
gestation seems much nearer its natural term than ever since the
Spirit of '76--that is surreal!
That government in Washington
City is waging de facto imperial warfare, not only around the globe,
but even within the "union's" own borders, against its own
civilian population--that is surreal! Why, this is the historical
stage in the life of a typical empire/nation/state often classified in
text books as "Period of Decline," or "Period of
Despotism/Tyranny," either of which generally immediately
precedes "Fall of the State." That is surreal.
That we folks living on Earth
in the first few years of the new millennium may well live to witness
an epic and fantastic power struggle, after a fashion eerily
reminiscent of a Heinlein novel--that is surreal!
Yes, the state of the
"union" has become disconcertingly surreal. Just look at Mr.
Bush on any empire TV channel, if you can stand it. The president of
the "union" is but a trained monkey, . . . a puppet on a
string. Is this really the most convincing marionette the king makers
could muster? You just can't get good help anymore! Alas, the
president of the "union" is pitifully close to being a clown
. . . a very sad clown.
Now, that is surreal!
