by The Usual Suspect
To me, that says that you don't have any faith in your country, that you think that our time is up soon, and you're fucking kissing up to all the other countries because you think that they'll show you mercy.
Hollywood rolling out the welcome mat for whoever scrambles onto our shores first. Their shocked, frightened stares will disappear under the zippers of bodybags. Or does Oprah hand a book to the Spetsnaz and smile while the cameras flash? Is that how it all pans out?
Reminds me of the feel we got off a lot of the Iraqis, to be honest. Seemed like they were kinda on the fence, trying to see which way the wind was blowing. Wanted to make sure they backed the right horse.
I just think it's kind of funny. I'm all for the Free Speech thing and everything as you well know, but I've been doing a lot of thinking, and I keep coming to the same conclusion:
Rights aren't real. You don't have the right to ANYTHING. It's just an idea, it has no physical power. Without the ability to protect that "right", it just doesn't mean a thing.
"But that's wrong! That's not how things should be!"
"Should" is a word that needs to be deleted from the English language. It's irrelevant. "Should" is for the people who are afraid to take action.
See, it's like there's this big liberal media machine that exists to baby and coddle everyone who is too sensitive to see the ugly side of reality, while the people who have the stomach (and the drive) to actually go DO things, well...they're out DOING, and life goes on, and the timid liberal housepets get all the sweet, sloppy benefits of being American Livestock.
Come to think of it, why am I bitching? That's kind of awesome. In fact, if I was running this show, I'd probably lean heavily on the entertainment industry, and legalize weed. Anyone not actively interested in the direction of the country can simply choose to believe that their vote doesn't count, and live in a haze, out of the way. Self fulfilling prophecy, and they work their shit jobs to buy their dumb shit toys and status symbols, feeding their selfish little egoes, all the while stimulating this here economy and funding our government so that we can keep on attacking our issues with planning, researching, preparing, rehearsing, executing, cleaning up, pulling out, and discussing what we did right and what we did wrong over a beer. Get up the next day and do it again for as long as we can keep this ship afloat.
Of course, I'd be the bad guy, right? I'd be evil and corrupt and all that, because no one else ever runs this shit, right? Liberal underachiever attitude, that's all. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about the arts, and to be honest, I'm not too good at anything else, but all that shit takes a back seat to the essentials.
So if you're afraid that this country is going down the shitter, don't start sucking foreign cocks just yet. Have a little pride and do something about it. What would you do if we WERE invaded? Submit? Think they'd make you a citizen, just like them? Second class at best, and that's if you're lucky. Look at China. It's a sausage fest because no parents want to have girls. A billion pissed off Chinamen with blue balls flooding into California. Picture that. The raping and pillaging of Beverly Hills. All those aspiring actresses ripe for the taking while our action heroes flee.
Protests in the streets of Seattle.
"WELCOME THE INVADERS! HUGS NOT GUNS!"
I don't think that it's stupid to establish positive relations with all the other countries of the world. I think it's stupid to expect the world to adhere to your G-rating preference. Watch what guns you vilify, you're making it hard to be proud to be counted among you.
As for me, I'm not that worried about our future. There isn't anything you can suggest that they haven't already considered and rejected for its flaws. They are much more interested in making sure that this country keeps on trucking than you are. You're just making yourselves look like a bunch of assholes.
9 comments:
This post is the sum total of your life's thinking to date? Maybe you ought to re-up and get out of the way. You are regressing.
Anon,
Why don't you spend some time working on your own issues?
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
~Albert Einstein
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers”
~ Kahlil Gibran
Ryan, I'm so glad you're back. Thinking and posting are two of your strongest suits. So, here's what I thought about what you were thinking:
"...Seemed like they were kinda on the fence, trying to see which way the wind was blowing. Wanted to make sure they backed the right horse." TOTALLY! And from what I've read, it was ever thus.
"Rights aren't real..." Has a bumper sticker ring to it dontcha think :)
"Should" -> owes -> me = trouble with a capital T
"...the people who have the stomach (and the drive) to actually go DO things,well ... they're out DOING, ..." And I thank god(s) for them!
"...their vote doesn't count, ..." I believe the stronger that feeling gets among potential voters, the more powerful the ACTUAL voters become.
"...What would you do if we WERE invaded?..." I've thought about that since the Cuban Crisis. Think I've mentioned before that I still have the nuclear bomb dream. It's why I learned how to live off the land, and why I have a bug-out box in the garage (with dried cholla cactus buds in it btw).
"...A billion pissed off Chinamen with blue balls flooding into California..." Interesting you should mention that. Just this morning I read that 17 Chinese illegals have been picked up in the desert around here in the last 2 wks. The number of OTM's (other than Mexican) keeps getting larger and larger.
"...I think it's stupid to expect the world to adhere to your G-rating preference...." YUP!!
"...Watch what guns you vilify, you're making it hard to be proud to be counted among you." Here's the thing - you're not counted among them, so why cares what they think? I believe that some of the biggest blowhards in that crowd will become instant converts when the pedal hits the metal -- and I hope, perhaps foolishly, that the "silent majority" will stand up when it counts...tho, now would be good.
an aside: was so impressed to see, on a video made by a young Ft Lewis wife, soldiers in their camies standing by the road to welcome the big blue bus as it headed to wherever it is they go when they bring you guys home. Obviously not an organized thing - some here, some there, more on the corners. She was surprised to see them there but if her husband makes a career of the Army she'll soon realize she has no finer friends than the men her husband works with AND their wives. THAT's where you're counted.
"... There isn't anything you can suggest that they haven't already considered and rejected for its flaws..." Not sure I'm following you here - who are "they"?
If you made it all the way to the bottom of this you deserve my apology for verbosity, but just know I don't really mean it ;)
~P~
PS: I read IF NOT NOW WHEN, thanks for the suggestion. Some suggestions for your reading list:
THE STAND by Stephen King and THE WORLD IS FLAT by Thomas Friedman.
Maybe you can get extra credit in Econ 101 for reading the latter, tho I hope it's required reading by now.
About the anti-gun crowd, check out the letter from CSM Jeff Mellinger here -->
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/as-christmas-approaches.htm
Will somebody PLEEZE tell the definition of a liberal?
And WTF is the "liberal media?"
Cause I've been on the planet a while now, and I started hearing these words getting throw around during, I think, the Nixon administration. I have yet to hear a coherent definition; and it is always used as an insult by people who wouldn't recognize what I think of as a liberal if it bit them in the ass. z
After eons on the road, I crested the final hill to see my hometown sprawled out below. Fireworks were exploding in the sky. And I'm not kidding. Sure, it technically wasn't for me, but as far as I'm concerned, yes it was. Every lit street light was for me, too.
A good welcome home. This Bud's for you, America.
Doesn't sound like the same guy, does it?
Why does it have to be the same guy? Do not things change and with them, our experience-shaped thoughts?
Also, I'm not sure how re-upping is the answer. He'd have to first be in service to re-up, but aside from that, how does that solve anything? And what is this regression? Accusations without support are meaningless...
This blog is about transition. From whatever to whatever. There isn't an end or even an answer as far as I can tell. It's just a journey--a new journey where two writers share a similar past and move into whichever direction they can.
Replace "liberal" with "conservative" and you got the right idea. The article will make a lot more sense then.
Read it again, still inane drivel.
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