Insomnia ([info]insomnia) wrote,
@ 2005-08-29 14:39:00
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Oh, and just a few last words for now...
I love the Drudge Retort headline that links to my memorial post on [info]rev_wayfarer.

So, how come Reuters never has headlines like that? ;-)

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[info]jk_fabiani
2005-08-29 11:33 pm UTC (link)
My condolences, Mark.

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[info]insomnia
2005-08-30 12:15 am UTC (link)
I don't mind, really.

First, I have a feeling that Rev Wayfarer would've gotten a laugh out of it. Secondly, if I didn't know him through his LJ, I'd probably get a laugh too, as it reads like an Onion headline. Lastly, though, it was the Drudge RETORT as opposed to the Drudge Report.

Satire is a good thing, generally speaking.

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[info]jk_fabiani
2005-08-30 04:12 am UTC (link)
We need that gallows humor more so now.

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even in death, we are not without critics.
[info]swingland
2005-08-30 12:51 am UTC (link)
its amazing that a dead soldier can have no voice without it being burned out by the screams of opposition.

its amazing that there are so many stark contrasting sides to this war. its almost like this war is tearing this country apart from the inside. the people fighting don't want to fight anymore, and the people voting keep sending them back.

i wonder when things are really going to start breaking.

maybe, just maybe, if the terrorists existed in any sense of the imagination that the US gov't keeps percieving them...maybe this is what they would have wanted: to light a match that would ignite an entire building.

people out in town get into fights over this war. families stop talking. the politics about all of this are insane.

it makes me wonder. a bit. i don't know.

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Re: even in death, we are not without critics.
[info]insomnia
2005-08-30 01:37 am UTC (link)
It's an incredibly divided situation. I don't see how you can form common ground on many of the issues in question, nor do I think compromise is necessarily wise. Comprimised reason is not reason at all, in the same way that the compromised science of Darwinian and Christian approaches to evolution is not science.

The Republican party doesn't espouse or support Christianity -- the actual teachings of Christ. Rather, they've turned it into a kind of psuedo-science, where its proponents have hunted and pecked through its teachings, apparently in an attempt to justify hatred, racism, war, and fear. It's fire and brimstone -- fear and anger -- it's antichristian, but it's a lot easier to sell than "love thy neighbor".

The Republicans are very aware of the attraction here, and that is why they couch a lot of their policies to fit this mindset. You need to appeal to a person's faith, not their rationality, to get them to vote against their self-interest.

Policies of fire and brimstone -- combined with corporate tax cuts and large government contracts. It's interesting to note that none of the elected Republican politicians out there are religious leaders, though... so if they don't primarily represent churches, then who do they represent?

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