Jun 24

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6/24/2010 7:52 AM 

The genocide in Palestine and the biocide in the Gulf of Mexico cap what we have known for a long time but have not been able to stomach, that bad money is in charge of the US. And that is not all.

As an earthquake instantly vaporizes faith in solid ground the enormity of our support for the cornered wolverine of Zion and for criminal negligence in ocean drilling wipes clean the cluttered landscape of rule by law in America. The underlying rock is rule by money. It’s been money since the first pilgrim stepped on Plymouth Rock and we’ve been lied to ever since. To this day our finest protesters, ANSWER, Code Pink, Public Citizen, Planned Parenthood, you pick, send out bulletins “Tell Congress to XYZ”, “Tell Congress no more money for war”. It’s over, menwomen, put the apple pie back in the Major Brands box. The time has come to admit that we have willingly supported a government we know has been lying to us for the simple reason that capitalism has given us a season ticket to Disneyland. An opossum said it best, “we have met the enemy and it is us”.

The pie won’t go back in the box? No problem, just wait til the oil hits Tampa. For sure, let’s not wait til Homeland Security turns on us for real. Or maybe instead of waiting for events to convince us that we are the enemy we should put an epilogue on evolution and ask the whence of technology. Oil for the Lamps of China? Technology has worked miracles of invention with the fossil carbons and incidentally created an insatiable need for their energy. How would one picture the end of evolution otherwise? We craved, crave, and evidently will crave to our last breath, the fruits of technology, let alone that season ticket. How about this epilogue, vision of the latest in technology lying at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico with a gusher of oil lubricating further invention? Let’s hear it for conceptualizing Armageddon.

We do not understand reality. In less dramatic words we do not comprehend the universe. In plainer words we do not understand the meaning of that full color shot of a blue and white earth taken from Apollo 8 in orbit around the moon. In arrogance we instead believe in Coca Cola. In words that hurt we do not believe that each of us is responsible for a government we know to be criminal. In words that terrify we are not humble in the presence of the unknown. There is but one book that the landmass we call America accepts in the majority as portraying reality, and that’s the bible. I find much of it to be nonsense. But what have we instead?