Tragedy or Farce

History repeats itself as a tragic farce I suppose. I dreamed I saw Joe Mc Carthy last night , alive as you or me... but it was just Glen Beck casually calling all pinkos trators. I'm sure if I dialed in Rush right now I woud hear the same message. The media is reporting, with oh such serious concern, reports of "race baiting" but I have as yet failed to hear any condemnation of the blatant, 24 hour RED BAITING . Next we can expect a reality show with Glen and Van Jones chasing each other through the Jungle with paint ball guns, perhaps some cameo appearances with Nancy Pelosi and Sarah Palin mud wrestling! As Debord said, a State with no historical memory cannot be led strategically and that is certainly obvious to everyone, no matter your ideological position. I mean Afgahnistan? Really? California will just let the inmates go? Go where? They will just threaten the Insurance companies with a "trigger"? Farce or tragedy?

But the climate of fear and cruelty is no joke. The British National Party has an openly racist agenda, they cannot keep ammo in stock here where I live, there are cameras everywhere, Pittsburgh is militarized in anticipation of the G20, John Birch and Richard Nixon grin triumphantly from the grave. Homeless people fighting to the death for the "free market and bonuses of Wall Street Securitizers, dying widows on Medicaid railing against government programs, folks whose kids are waiting for liver transplants defending the right of Insurance Corporations to make as much profit as they can.

It's all about tension and equilibrium. We are all "conservative" to the degree we understand that any disruption in the equilibrium, even the percieved equilibrium, can cause forces to swing wildly in unforseeable directions. Like planets losing their orbits. And so I understand the "slippery slope" argument and the reaction to any proposal for radical change.We have all waken from the nightmare where the brooms keep bringing the buckets of water and like panicked Mickey Mouses we can only appeal to some higher power ( or cartoonist) but guess what. Pandoras Box is already opened, the nightmare is already much of the worlds current reality and the wild ocsillating is well underway. Equilibrium can only come from people taking control of their own destinies and remembering what it is like to have SOME measure of dignity.