Snozberry

This is a very well written article detailing the neocon takeover of the Pentagon's OSP. Reading this is disheartening, depressing and enraging. In all honesty, if the system of government is being commandeered by these right-wing wackos from the top down, how can anything be done about it? Perhaps voting out Bush would help, as it would in turn lead to the flushing of these unscrupulous political apointees, but much of the damage has already been done.

Jenny, who interacts with "normal people" far more than I, was talking with a cowboy who says that he likes Bush because he sticks to his word (he said he was going to invade Iraq & waste all of our resources on keeping people paranoid and he did). That's fine - keeping your word is an important thing - but what happened to part where you examine the supporting evidence/rationale behind someone's statement of action? I've started learning a bit about Buddhism (more on this later), and one way to make yourself a better person is to think positively about others, but how can I think positively when there is massive amount of evidence that shows most Americans are too shallow to carefully think anything through? Perhaps they are all capable, but they choose not to. The end effect, though is that the American public seems oblivious to complexity and prone to being suckers for over-simplified, unfounded, leading statements.

Bush regularly makes mis-statements that are widely publicized (seeding ideas) and then quietly retracts or qualifies them (which does nothing to weed out false notions in these shallow people's heads). This strategy of initially making misleading statements works wonders on developing support amongst the ambivalent, shallow populous but is so incredibly morally (I debated throwing that word in here) reprehensible that it should be a criminal offense!

Bah. I'm going to have to stop thinking about this now because it's putting me in a foul mood. Anyhow, without further adieu, the article most graciously being hosted by Salon.