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WESTERN CIVILIZATION I
WESTERN CIVILIZATION II
Fancy that you are the leading man or woman of a Broadway theatre success
that has merited international acclaim. It is five minutes before your next
presentation. In your dressing room they are applying the final touches to
your make-up and costumery. Your cell squeals. Your mother and father have
been killed in a car crash. Three minutes to curtains up. Your manager looks
you straight in your eyes and says you will become a theatrical legend when
the media learns you still went on knowing about the tragedy. He fills a glass
of water. Escorts you to the wings of the stage. Thirty seconds to go... He
gives you a pill and tells you to gulp it down. Then he pats you on your back
and says: “Just do it!”
Barack Obama, forty-fourth president of the DUS, knows too well too that the
show must go on. Of course, he is not alone. His overly-confident demeanour
is fused with the backing of a federal police that he thinks is just and efficient,
a spy system that he holds to be intelligent, a banking and financial oligarchy
he wants reinforced, and a foreign affairs' policy that interferes with
governments all over the world and which shakes the hands of Berlusconi and
Sarkozy's bagmen. Still, BO is a media publicist's dream. His image reflects
the 3-point shot at the buzzer that wins the game. He is an ante-hero with
nothing yet to be heroic about! His icon is the symbol of the DUS's
desperation to keep the show going on.
But for how long might this hypocritical entertainment proceed? How long can
BO fake moves? Pass his ball? How long will we continue to say “Yes we can?”
When will we start crying “No we can't?” When 2008 closed its cooked books,
it became clear, finally, to most citizens in the DUS and the world, that the
Horatio Alger figment of the imagination, The American Dream, was really a
nightmare haunted with graft and corruption. That it had been debased for a
couple of centuries. That to maintain the wild lifestyles of the richest of the
richest, most of the rest of the world had to “kick in” and even remain in their
states of destitution and helplessness to keep those richest from getting less
rich. With its chums (the other industrialized nations), the DUS cut up the
world at whim, established 800 DUS military bases around the globe,
overturned governments here and there, wielded the carrot (the Christian Bible
and its tenets) and the stick (bombs and missiles), and strongly insisted that
the best political and economic system in the world was its own idea: Judeo-
Christian “Democratic” Capitalism. The Best and the Brightest? The Worst
and the Stupidest. The Central Intelligence Agency? The Central Stupidity
Agency. The DUS has done more harm to its fanatically righteous crusade than
any enemy might. And it was Plato who promulgated the education of an elite
group of leaders! There does not even exist an iota of political prudence
(Kant). (With enemies like this, who needs friends?) Left to simmer in its
debilitating arrogance, Western Civilization II will implode upon its own con job.
The most stultifying cogent evidence of this is the game plan that has been
sketched out on the whiteboard. Already, we can perceive that there exists
the formidable urge to nurse the horrific economic flop back from intensive
care to where it was before: that is, to restructure it; not do away with it!
Substantially, those who prodded the DUS to the muddle it now suffers are the
same who have been recruited to rectify the existing, embarrassing financial
circumstances. Their minds are out of use. They can go only one way...their
way.
There once was economic chat about the cycles of profit and then loss.
Remember? “Every sixty years—or so.” Nowadays these time frames have
contracted drastically in proportion to the annihilative financial pyramid
schemes set in motion by the obsessive amount of avarice and putrescence
within the mindset of the political system's components and its bedfellows, the
business community. There are wars in progress which no longer can spend
the DUS out of its economic miseries. Banks are failing at a brisk rate. The
experts are dumbfounded and their fingers are crossed. Politicians are in-
brawling within their own lodges but passionately set on placing blame on the
opposition. There is no consensus on what best must be done to escape the
downward spiralling. Everyone is praying, like the Italians, for a miracle!
When the DUS was King of the World's Economic Mountain, it was indeed far
more easy to control the vicissitudes of the DUS's economy, and a great part of
the world's that it for so long influenced and so often manipulated. This dream
world exists no longer. The uncanny growth of other nations, bent on
modernizing their economies and cultures, now confronts the DUS with the
incubus of a global, helterskelter competition it not any more is capable of
dealing with. An avalanche of maverick capitalism, uncontrollable and ever
present, is making of the DUS the recipient of the same medicine it dosed out
munificently for decades. The DUS is being swamped with the covetousness
and dishonesty that it once meted out itself with its ludicrous sense of
superiority and self-righteousness now characterized not as the image of itself
as a model that all should imitate, but one for all to put up with or more often
than not now...hate.
BO, you don't have a dream. You have a nightmare! You are the leading man
in a tragedy whose cast is chock full of imbeciles and criminals. Within the
milieu of discord and disgrace in the DUS you are trying to wrangle together
the forces that you think will pull back up, by the boot straps, the DUS. But
who are these individuals? These schizoid goofballs who attend religious
ceremonies on the weekends and cheat and steal as best they can during
weekdays? Who are these dimwits who make up your dramatis personae?
They are lying lawyers who have born witness to the fact that citizens of the
DUS need to pay through their noses to obtain justice...they are stockbrokers
and financial “experts” who advise their clients to stash their winnings in
secret bank accounts in Europe, the Caribbean, etc...they are mendacious
congresspeople and senators most on the take...they are ministers, priests and
rabbis who spend more time with their bankers than they do with their
flocks...they are ambitious university professors helping the DUS government
to invent new weapons of destruction...they are doctors with one hand on the
scalpel and the other on their stock reports...and worst of all, they are the
millions and millions of DUS citizens who wish they had the same opportunities
to pilfer and swindle as do their gangster-faced Robber Baron shining
examples!
President Obama, just as E = mc², politics has come, deplorably, to mean
Politics = Economy + Religion. You cannot reel around the world preaching
honesty, love, honor, and uprightness when everyone outside the DUS knows
that the citizens of the DisUnited States of Northamerica are the best rip-off
artists in existence. The world is laughing at your slick Pope-like homilies.
Nice words. Refreshing bromides. After your platitudes—from high above—
have mesmerized your foreign audiences, those same individuals turn their
backs on you and the unprincipled DisUnited States of Northamerica. Sorry
about that, BO. (Incontrovertible Proof That Citizens of the DisUnited States of
Northamerica Are So Sorrowfully, So Sanctimoniously Stupid:
www.scribd.com/thewordwarrior.)
BO, I leave you with this quote from Martin Jacques's When China Rules the
World, Chapter 8, page 271:
President Obama (President Carter?), you will not be able to get your act
together. I doubt you have either the sophistication or strength to deal with
the exterior dramatic collisions that will beset your administration, and simply
because the DisUnited States of Northamerica has for far too long disregarded
the realities of the world in which it exists.
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