Reply #105: Extremely Well Put. [View All]

[Tyler Durden]

You want to know exactly how I really see all of this?

Our modern political process has become a war of attrition between SLIGHTLY different factions of the Elite Classes of society. To paraphrase Kurt Vonnegut: in "The Sirens of Titan" he put forth the idea that if a person on one planet was the smartest person on that planet and always right met a person from another planet who was the smartest person on THAT planet and always right, they would likely disagree and kill each other.

To say that politics in this country has become one corporate philosophy battling another just slightly nastier corporate philosophy is probably the most accurate way of putting things; sort of like a choice between Hitler and Mussolini: neither is desirable, but one could get you dead a whole lot faster than the other. It doesn't mean you LOVE Mussolini: you just don't want to go to the Camps just yet.

This is a very, very BAD way of governing, and as I view it, a very unstable way as well. Is this good? Well, maybe, because CHANGE does not necessarily need someone to lead the change. Leave a dead cow in the middle of your living room, and eventually SOMEONE will organize a crew to remove it: it only has to stink bad enough and draw enough flies.