new honor and new power (2)
I didn't feel as though I had any ownership in this country. Correctly! The fool spoke of "the ownership society" and meant: The society in which you are owned. The fool called us free, because he knew that he did not own us. He did not know -- can he have? -- that he was as owned as we were.
and we were all sitting back and watching in horror as everything fell apart. Yes, and the next step -- standing up and making that horror into action -- was beyond most of us. There is no blame in that statement. We were told that if we stood and acted, as everything fell apart, we were suspect, we were obstructive, we were not patriots, we were traitors. So we sat and watched, in a tailspin, with no compass, no map, no instructions.
All the magic of voting and campaigning and standing up for what you believe in, all of those things were suddenly ridiculous and cliché. Well, under fascism they are. When the corporation and the military and the executive are welded into a single authoritarian power, voting becomes meaningless, campaigning becomes a distracted waste of energy, and standing up for what you believe in becomes dangerous. When did I stop saying "cryptofascist" and start saying "fascist?" When I realized that the Pentagon was paying Blackwater. When I realized that the corporation supplied the army which was commanded by the executive which owned the corporation, and around and around it goes, and where it stops --
And last night
it stopped.
I think.
I hope.
President Obama.
Please give me back my compass
and my map
and my place to stand.
And I will serve my country as gladly as you do.
and we were all sitting back and watching in horror as everything fell apart. Yes, and the next step -- standing up and making that horror into action -- was beyond most of us. There is no blame in that statement. We were told that if we stood and acted, as everything fell apart, we were suspect, we were obstructive, we were not patriots, we were traitors. So we sat and watched, in a tailspin, with no compass, no map, no instructions.
All the magic of voting and campaigning and standing up for what you believe in, all of those things were suddenly ridiculous and cliché. Well, under fascism they are. When the corporation and the military and the executive are welded into a single authoritarian power, voting becomes meaningless, campaigning becomes a distracted waste of energy, and standing up for what you believe in becomes dangerous. When did I stop saying "cryptofascist" and start saying "fascist?" When I realized that the Pentagon was paying Blackwater. When I realized that the corporation supplied the army which was commanded by the executive which owned the corporation, and around and around it goes, and where it stops --
And last night
it stopped.
I think.
I hope.
President Obama.
Please give me back my compass
and my map
and my place to stand.
And I will serve my country as gladly as you do.