Topic: presidential election
"Moral values" is a semantic spook, you cannot put moral values in your pocket. "Moral values" will not sit in your stomach in place of food and it will not pay the bills.
Politics is, aside from suckling, the most primitive of human behaviors. A "politician" is someone that understands the dominance/submissive game and uses it to influence the behavior of those around him, hopefully to get rich or to get laid. Occassionally in life there are isolated acts that those of us outside of the "politics" game can use to improve our existence (supporting a candidate that will improve health care or working conditions, for example). If there is to be any freedom, any justice in this world survival needs must be met. But this compromise is not a full scale endorsement of the political system!
It has become apparent here at 1:30 AM EST that both Presidential candidates are doing pretty much the same, votes-wise. Living in the United States, no matter what your beliefs are there is a very good chance that at least every other person that you meet today will think you're a fucking idiot!
"The human position is no longer tenable," William S. Burroughs used to say. What we are experiencing is the chaos that persists and will only increase as American society discovers that it is no longer needed, at least in its present form.
If Kerry were to win we could expect, for starters: an increasingly vicious police state on our hands, an economic situation that is at best racist (and at worst, genocidal), and an ugly war in Iraq that is not going anywhere, anytime soon. This is the same thing we can expect from Bush, of course.
This recent election is only the backdrop for our play, however: one cannot allow one's life to be defined by the despair of their age (which is a constant in any age, I fear). All animals have strong biological drives towards nesting, congesting and digesting (sleep, fucking and food). We also have brain programming that can create feelings of love, transcendance, beauty, mercy...
Posted by mediafaction
at 7:00 PM EST
