The Motherlode.......i mean.....

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THE AMERICAN MONSTER!

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I have been fortunate—nay, blessed—to grow up among some very hip tribal elders, men and women who have been Fighting the Good Fight for decades before I was born. This is what Korzybski called “time-binding”: instead of having to duplicate their experiences, I could learn from them and get up to speed before diving into the meat grinder of United States politics and culture.

An observation: although most of my generation loathes George W. Bush, and most of our older siblings and cousins see the real threat as his father, all the old wisdom in the NEK places the real Problem on the shoulders of Barbara Bush. They say that families are the true seat of power, and the real power in a family is the woman. And as ever, they’re right.


“War is not nice”: Wisdom from Babs

Of course, nearly every English speaking human on Earth has heard her most recent and infamous whopper, spoken during a tour of the Hurricaine Katrina aftermath:

“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”

She was talking about the Houston Astrodome, which was housing nearly 25,000 people at the time.



There is also her classic demonstration of what being a “Compassionate Conservative” is all about, from the Good Morning America show on March 12, 2003:


“Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”

Less known, but much more telling, is the following comment from an interview with Larry King:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/22/lkl.00.html

...you can criticize me, but don’t criticize my children and don’t criticize my daughters-in-law and don’t criticize my husband, or you’re dead.

It’s a very bland interview for the most part, but then again, Hannah Arendt had that great phrase about “the banality of evil”. Dig this discussion of the death penalty, for instance:

KING: Your son has had to sign—your husband was never Governor, so he wasn’t faced with this. Your husband has had to sign death warrants.

BUSH: My sons.

KING: Your sons, rather. In two states that do it a lot, sadly. What do you think of the death penalty?

BUSH: Well, I’m a little tougher maybe than I should be, but I think it’s a deterrent. I really do. I think, if you think you can kill somebody and take a life—I would like to live in a world where I didn’t think that was true, but I think that’s—that’s Barbara Bush, not George Bush, not George W. Bush, not Jeb Bush.

KING: DNA evidence, though, showing a lot of people didn’t do it?

BUSH: Well, we have DNA now. So we don’t have to worry about that, don’t we?

KING: No. I mean in the past, you might think we have killed someone who didn’t do it.

BUSH: That’s terrible. That would be terrible. But we’ve had 12 years to—they go on forever and ever, all those appeals.

KING: Do you have a lot of faith? Are you a religious person?

BUSH: Yes. I mean, besides going to church every Sunday, I pray every night.

KING: You do?

BUSH: George Bush and I pray every night.



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