Addling Us Not So Softy
By Rand Clifford
05 August, 2007
Countercurrents.orgThe first thing people think when something happens like the bridge collapse in Minneapolis the other day: TERRORISTS!
Later, when ragheads with long scraggly beards have been ruled out as a cause, we can sheepishly approach the reality of our infrastructure decaying all around us while we lack funds to address the hyper-overdue problem because there are so many foreigners with resources we covet that we have to blow to bits. Gaze with wonder at any shock-and-awe extravaganza on your TV, feel a little safer maybe because a lot of our "enemies" have been vaporized, their infrastructures demolished...but at some point, consider the costs.
Costs mean money, not any of those wimpy ideals Christ rambled about. Okay, we’re supposed to be a Christian nation, just recite the Pledge of Allegiance to yourself under your breath: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the plutocracy for which it stands, one nation whose leaders decide what God wants, corporatized, with liberty and justice for sale". Amen, eh.
Thou Shalt Not Not Kill. Okay, we got that one. But all this killing gets expensive if you’re not in the profit loop...or if you’re near the business end of a smart bomb. Soon it’ll be half of every dollar taxed off of our top that goes directly for killing people in distant lands because God screwed up and put our resources in the wrong place. Godammit, what if you shed a front tooth...put it under your pillow, and that faggot Tooth Fairy went and put your reward under the arm (they can but dream of pillows) of some shadowy little wretch that is all joints and head and bloated belly thousands of miles away. Be time to kick some ass.
So we are doing just that, now that our leaders got the green light from God. He knows he screwed up, and he’s counting on us to set things straight. We can’t let Him down.
Rand Clifford is a novelist and essayist living in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay retriever, Mink. His novels CASTLING and TIMING are published by StarChief Press: http://www.starchiefpress.com
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