The American Coup

[Jay Vaughan]

> 28 minutes. To be honest, it's not worth my time. The internet is full
> of people with Opinions, and few of those are thoughtful.
>

C'mon, really?  Naomi Wolf is a fairly upstanding individual.  You  
haven't read The Beauty Myth?

> To get back to my earlier point, I was thinking about the commentary  
> of
> Sarah Palin. Now I for one think the woman is totally unsuitable as  
> vice
> president, but the comments from the Democratic-leaning columnists are
> scathing, ridiculing, and altogether nasty. Obviously, the Republicans
> aren't any better. But why this, for want of a better word, hatred?  
> And
> even Hollywood stars endorsing this one or the other, and Oprah only
> getting the Democrats in her programme. In Europe, such public
> endorsements by non-political figures are practically unheard of.
>

Dialectic Materialism rules the American mindset.

> This polarisation I find abhorring. And then all these conspiracy
> theories. I mean, they pumped $700bn into Iraq and can't even tackle a
> couple of bearded men brandishing Kalashnikovs, they have God knows  
> how
> many agencies regulating the financial markets and still it fucks  
> up, so
> how in heaven's name would they organise a fascist take-over in a
> country with a definite anarchist streak, where the federal government
> is distrusted by default?

Ermm .. those fuckups were orchestrated to weaken the nation, hello ..


> On YouTube, I'm watching Cirque du Soleil's 'Alegria', which is just a
> thing of beauty. I saw them once in Düsseldorf, a chance that I'm  
> still
> grateful for. So all this hoo-ha, it just reaffirms my credo of  
> late: "I
> don't care."


And so the wheel turns.

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Jay Vaughan