Saturday, October 09, 2004
International Audience for the debates.
From An Unenviable Situation blog:
The Debate: It's interesting, the fact of it, and the fact of the questions and questioners. Never before have so many people seen democracy in action. What is the number of foreign viewers, and how many of them are following the debate in English? And none of them are able to vote. The future of billions is in the hands of the citizens of the most powerful state in the history of the world, most of whom know next to nothing about any foreign place, and most of them with no sense at all of their incredible power. All over he world, millions and millions are looking at the screen with the same confused sense of amusement, envy, and horror.
The Debate: It's interesting, the fact of it, and the fact of the questions and questioners. Never before have so many people seen democracy in action. What is the number of foreign viewers, and how many of them are following the debate in English? And none of them are able to vote. The future of billions is in the hands of the citizens of the most powerful state in the history of the world, most of whom know next to nothing about any foreign place, and most of them with no sense at all of their incredible power. All over he world, millions and millions are looking at the screen with the same confused sense of amusement, envy, and horror.
# posted by scorpiorising : 3:04 PM |
The Friday night debate
Atrios and his commentators are having fun celebrating another high for Kerry and another low for Bush, according to the commentators on his blog. I watched bits and pieces of the debate. I did catch Bush going off on the Moderator Charlie Gibson, seemingly to avoid a question about military families which never was asked.
Rumors swirl that Bush was possibly on speed, possibly lithium, because of his mouth movements and hyper-aggressivity. Meanwhile, Sinclair Broadcasting is going to air an anti-Kerry film just a couple of days before the election. Here is the link to Sinclair's Corporate website:
http://www.sbgi.net/about/profile.shtml
From the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-sinclair9oct09,1,4817545.story?coll=la-home-headlines
"NEW YORK — The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.
Sinclair's programming plan, communicated to executives in recent days and coming in the thick of a close and intense presidential race, is highly unusual even in a political season that has been marked by media controversies."
I predict Sinclair will pull the plug on this blatantly partisan idea and the program will not air. The momentum is building for Kerry and soon it will be a tidal wave, of sorts. I predict another meltdown for Bush in the third debate, because no matter what drug they give him, his true colors shine through.
As for my own views, this is what the interior of my head is like these day:
Well, Kerry will have the opportunity to stack the Supreme Court with liberals, but...Kerry wants to expand the war in Iraq.
Kerry wants to invest in alternative energy...but can I look myself in the mirror and accept that I voted for someone who planned to escalate a war?
Kerry will work to lower the deficit...but he'll still have to pay for this war he wants to expand...oh, I forgot, he wants to expand the war with other countries' troops and money. Oh boy, that's going to be popular in Europe.
Kerry mush have amazing faith in his own abilities, or, he is as out of touch on Iraq as Bush is.
Rumors swirl that Bush was possibly on speed, possibly lithium, because of his mouth movements and hyper-aggressivity. Meanwhile, Sinclair Broadcasting is going to air an anti-Kerry film just a couple of days before the election. Here is the link to Sinclair's Corporate website:
http://www.sbgi.net/about/profile.shtml
From the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-sinclair9oct09,1,4817545.story?coll=la-home-headlines
"NEW YORK — The conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose television outlets reach nearly a quarter of the nation's homes with TV, is ordering its stations to preempt regular programming just days before the Nov. 2 election to air a film that attacks Sen. John F. Kerry's activism against the Vietnam War, network and station executives familiar with the plan said Friday.
Sinclair's programming plan, communicated to executives in recent days and coming in the thick of a close and intense presidential race, is highly unusual even in a political season that has been marked by media controversies."
I predict Sinclair will pull the plug on this blatantly partisan idea and the program will not air. The momentum is building for Kerry and soon it will be a tidal wave, of sorts. I predict another meltdown for Bush in the third debate, because no matter what drug they give him, his true colors shine through.
As for my own views, this is what the interior of my head is like these day:
Well, Kerry will have the opportunity to stack the Supreme Court with liberals, but...Kerry wants to expand the war in Iraq.
Kerry wants to invest in alternative energy...but can I look myself in the mirror and accept that I voted for someone who planned to escalate a war?
Kerry will work to lower the deficit...but he'll still have to pay for this war he wants to expand...oh, I forgot, he wants to expand the war with other countries' troops and money. Oh boy, that's going to be popular in Europe.
Kerry mush have amazing faith in his own abilities, or, he is as out of touch on Iraq as Bush is.
# posted by scorpiorising : 8:38 AM |
Friday, October 08, 2004
Easy Rider
I planned, of sorts, to watch the debate, but I found myself avoiding my friends whom I knew would have it on. They are all about conspiracy theory these days and obsessing on Skull and Bones. I think they miss the forest for the trees on that one. You don't have to belong to skull and bones to tote the capitalist, globalization lines around with you. We have plenty of people in power doing this from all walks of life, like the brainwashed zombies that they are. I will note this similarity between skull and bones candidate Kerry, and skull and bones president Bush: they both don't know when to pull out...pull out of Iraq that is.
I ran into my friend Timmy today. I saw him walking to a coffeeshop on Esplanade Ave. I stopped to pick him up and we chatted and had coffee together. He is a comedien here in New Orleans of the alternative variety. He's an older white man with long, dirty blond dread locks. He wrote a book of his comedic admonitions and he bakes baklava for several coffeeshops. He said the trickle down theory of economics was beginning to affect him because he found a dime in the street the other day. He's hoping for a quarter soon, he said.
We marveled at the similarities between the words success and excess, as though one nearly can't be had these days without the other. Certainly, one can be greatly tempted to excess when one scores a success. The two words joined at the hip like twins seem an adequate description of capitalism. Success is rewarded with excess. Just look at the free trade agreements. Just look at CEO salaries. It would be interesting to explore the beliefs behind our tendency to excess in capitalism.
Timmy declined to participate in my invitation into a discussion on the tendencies of the practice of capitalism to include fascist traits. "I don't even want to think about it" he said. Okay, he is more interested in exposing the symptoms and traits of this hell-hole of an economic system that we, the human race has chosen to adopt; I want to expose its roots so that there is a chance to kill it.
I went home then and turned on the debate. But I kept flipping back to "Easy Rider", which was being shown with commercials, unforturnately. The graveyard scene in New Orleans is still one of the greatest moments in cinematic history, and unscripted at that. Peter Fonda's character knew they had fucked up by focusing on greed. A low-level feeling of doom hung throughout the film, emanating from Dennis Hopper's paranoia and Fonda's self-deprecation. I have a similar feeling about this country, this world, but I don't know what to do about it.
I ran into my friend Timmy today. I saw him walking to a coffeeshop on Esplanade Ave. I stopped to pick him up and we chatted and had coffee together. He is a comedien here in New Orleans of the alternative variety. He's an older white man with long, dirty blond dread locks. He wrote a book of his comedic admonitions and he bakes baklava for several coffeeshops. He said the trickle down theory of economics was beginning to affect him because he found a dime in the street the other day. He's hoping for a quarter soon, he said.
We marveled at the similarities between the words success and excess, as though one nearly can't be had these days without the other. Certainly, one can be greatly tempted to excess when one scores a success. The two words joined at the hip like twins seem an adequate description of capitalism. Success is rewarded with excess. Just look at the free trade agreements. Just look at CEO salaries. It would be interesting to explore the beliefs behind our tendency to excess in capitalism.
Timmy declined to participate in my invitation into a discussion on the tendencies of the practice of capitalism to include fascist traits. "I don't even want to think about it" he said. Okay, he is more interested in exposing the symptoms and traits of this hell-hole of an economic system that we, the human race has chosen to adopt; I want to expose its roots so that there is a chance to kill it.
I went home then and turned on the debate. But I kept flipping back to "Easy Rider", which was being shown with commercials, unforturnately. The graveyard scene in New Orleans is still one of the greatest moments in cinematic history, and unscripted at that. Peter Fonda's character knew they had fucked up by focusing on greed. A low-level feeling of doom hung throughout the film, emanating from Dennis Hopper's paranoia and Fonda's self-deprecation. I have a similar feeling about this country, this world, but I don't know what to do about it.
# posted by scorpiorising : 9:57 PM |
The VP Debate
Sidney Blumenthal was right to highlight this very important point John Edwards made in the debate Tuesday night. It was also unexpectedly moving for Edwards to approach the issue in such a personal way for Dick Cheney, clever and manipulative. But it is a manipulation that I can forgive, because there is so much at stake. Cheney could only muster a "thank-you" in response, which is very telling, in and of itself. Here is what Blumenthal said:
Then, in an act of grace, Edwards did more than unnerve Cheney. Edwards praised him and his wife for their "love" and "embrace" of their gay daughter. Cheney, who seemed personally affected, could only thank him. But Edwards went on to counter Bush's support for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit gay marriage. "It's nothing but a political tool ... We ought to be talking about issues like healthcare and jobs and what's happening in Iraq, not using an issue to divide this country ..."
The Republicans have sought to stigmatise the Democrats as effeminate - "girlie men," "sensitive," "metrosexual". Edwards silenced Cheney; he also opened a political fissure in the fundamentalist Republican base. Cheney, unlike Bush, does not speak the language of the born-again. It is Bush, not Cheney, who appeals to the religious right.
But Blumenthal misses a crucial point here. That is, Blumenthal's assumption that Cheney does not appeal to the religious right. Blumenthal is surely underestimating Cheney's awareness of the need for the neocons, and Bush, to appeal to the religious right. That is their bread and butter.
Cheney is keenly aware though, that his gay daughter, and his support for her, puts him at odds with the religious right. On the one hand, he understands the political importance of the cultural war this is stirring up; and for his daughter he must oppose it.
Cheney, I am sure, is keenly aware of the support he receives from the religious right for his neocon foreign policy beliefs.
Cheney is willing to step outside of the limited intellectual parameters of the the marriage between the religious right and the neocons, for a very personal issue. Would that he would see war in this way.
He and his neocons have been successful is involving America on two war fronts: the war in Iraq, and the cultural wars.
Edwards for his part, was courageous and intelligent in his identification of the use of cultural wars by this neocon /religious right president to divide the people. A divided people is a people that can be conquered by, yes, the wrong war, in the wrong time, in the wrong place. And we are conquered by the economic devastation of our own economy in the spending of American tax payer money to try and make this war a success, an effort that John Kerry has promised to continue, and the personal loss to our families, not to mention the loss of lives and limbs of our soldiers.
On the other front, is the cultural war. Gay people versus America, is essentially the parameters that are being laid out in this cultural war. As far as I am concerned, John Edwards threw me an orange when he challenged the cultural wars as, basically, a contradiction of the values that America was founded on.
"All men are created equal", can and ought to be the central value in domestic and foreign policies, and if it were practiced as a living doctrine, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
Then, in an act of grace, Edwards did more than unnerve Cheney. Edwards praised him and his wife for their "love" and "embrace" of their gay daughter. Cheney, who seemed personally affected, could only thank him. But Edwards went on to counter Bush's support for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit gay marriage. "It's nothing but a political tool ... We ought to be talking about issues like healthcare and jobs and what's happening in Iraq, not using an issue to divide this country ..."
The Republicans have sought to stigmatise the Democrats as effeminate - "girlie men," "sensitive," "metrosexual". Edwards silenced Cheney; he also opened a political fissure in the fundamentalist Republican base. Cheney, unlike Bush, does not speak the language of the born-again. It is Bush, not Cheney, who appeals to the religious right.
But Blumenthal misses a crucial point here. That is, Blumenthal's assumption that Cheney does not appeal to the religious right. Blumenthal is surely underestimating Cheney's awareness of the need for the neocons, and Bush, to appeal to the religious right. That is their bread and butter.
Cheney is keenly aware though, that his gay daughter, and his support for her, puts him at odds with the religious right. On the one hand, he understands the political importance of the cultural war this is stirring up; and for his daughter he must oppose it.
Cheney, I am sure, is keenly aware of the support he receives from the religious right for his neocon foreign policy beliefs.
Cheney is willing to step outside of the limited intellectual parameters of the the marriage between the religious right and the neocons, for a very personal issue. Would that he would see war in this way.
He and his neocons have been successful is involving America on two war fronts: the war in Iraq, and the cultural wars.
Edwards for his part, was courageous and intelligent in his identification of the use of cultural wars by this neocon /religious right president to divide the people. A divided people is a people that can be conquered by, yes, the wrong war, in the wrong time, in the wrong place. And we are conquered by the economic devastation of our own economy in the spending of American tax payer money to try and make this war a success, an effort that John Kerry has promised to continue, and the personal loss to our families, not to mention the loss of lives and limbs of our soldiers.
On the other front, is the cultural war. Gay people versus America, is essentially the parameters that are being laid out in this cultural war. As far as I am concerned, John Edwards threw me an orange when he challenged the cultural wars as, basically, a contradiction of the values that America was founded on.
"All men are created equal", can and ought to be the central value in domestic and foreign policies, and if it were practiced as a living doctrine, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.
# posted by scorpiorising : 8:46 AM |
Thursday, October 07, 2004
The Great Pretenders
Observations from a Californian who volunteered for John Kerry in Pennsylvania recently, from Salon.com:
Kerry was actually the second choice for most people in the room. And everyone watching is evaluating Kerry not as a candidate, but as an actor. No one feels particularly inspired by Kerry's candidacy, but everyone is passionately concerned that he play his role well. We find ourselves at a strange moment in American political history. Most people have internalized the rules of the game; everyone is an expert in the gestures that denote "authority," "the common touch," "love of country," "excessive intellectuality" and so on. In this election, at least, no one even pretends that substance will win the day. Years ago, in his book "Mythologies," the French culture critic Roland Barthes wrote about the way that mass-culture consumer societies create and maintain images, gestures, discourses that act as the filters through which we perceive the world. It is the double gaze that all of us have to some degree. It is the world of spin. We have all become implicit spinners. No one likes it and no one knows how to stop it. We look simultaneously at content and predicted effect, at what actually happened and how it will play. If it doesn't play, it never happened. Conversely, even blatant lies, if they play, become true.
Kerry was actually the second choice for most people in the room. And everyone watching is evaluating Kerry not as a candidate, but as an actor. No one feels particularly inspired by Kerry's candidacy, but everyone is passionately concerned that he play his role well. We find ourselves at a strange moment in American political history. Most people have internalized the rules of the game; everyone is an expert in the gestures that denote "authority," "the common touch," "love of country," "excessive intellectuality" and so on. In this election, at least, no one even pretends that substance will win the day. Years ago, in his book "Mythologies," the French culture critic Roland Barthes wrote about the way that mass-culture consumer societies create and maintain images, gestures, discourses that act as the filters through which we perceive the world. It is the double gaze that all of us have to some degree. It is the world of spin. We have all become implicit spinners. No one likes it and no one knows how to stop it. We look simultaneously at content and predicted effect, at what actually happened and how it will play. If it doesn't play, it never happened. Conversely, even blatant lies, if they play, become true.
# posted by scorpiorising : 1:25 PM |
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Driving a point home.
Driving home today and saw several points to consider: I have to be able to get up in the morning and look at my face in the mirror and believe in the person that looks back at me. Could I do that if I vote for someone who more than likely is going to extend a war? There are several factors here. I spoke to a friend today, someone who has put a great deal of time into the Green Party; someone who normally does not vote democrat. He supported Nader in 2000, but he's voting for John Kerry now. He is an electrician. He's voting his pocket book this time around, though he seems to have very similar reservations about Kerry's foreign policy. He has seen the cost of his materials go up, and he believes the deficit is driving inflation. We didn't talk about the cost of oil, but certainly this must be playing a factor in the cost of everthing going up??? Coffee is going up again. Oil is at $52 a barrel.
Has anyone ever asked or answered this question: Just who does profit from a deficit?
I hope my friend is relieved of his pocket-book burden is Kerry is elected. In my view though, domestic and foreign policy are intertwined. They affect each other and play off of each other. I remember clearly feeling Bush was evading the issue of corporate corruption, a sagging stock market, and his buddies at Enron and their shanninigans, when he launched his campaign for war with Iraq.
I told a friend in an email yes, Kerry's domestic policies will be vastly superior to Bush's, but if he escalates this war, more of our resources will be drained. Kerry acknowledged the right of the U.S. to engage in preemptive war. It is something we have done since the inception of our country. I noted in an earlier post there have been only 4 declared wars in the history of our country. Here is a list of conflicts the U.S. has been involved in since the formation of our country. It's a long list, and this fellow has included armed interventions and occupations, as well as wars: http://www.historyguy.com/War_list.html#warlist12
I for one, am re-examining the time and support and energy invested in such a political system that has produced such wars.
Has anyone ever asked or answered this question: Just who does profit from a deficit?
I hope my friend is relieved of his pocket-book burden is Kerry is elected. In my view though, domestic and foreign policy are intertwined. They affect each other and play off of each other. I remember clearly feeling Bush was evading the issue of corporate corruption, a sagging stock market, and his buddies at Enron and their shanninigans, when he launched his campaign for war with Iraq.
I told a friend in an email yes, Kerry's domestic policies will be vastly superior to Bush's, but if he escalates this war, more of our resources will be drained. Kerry acknowledged the right of the U.S. to engage in preemptive war. It is something we have done since the inception of our country. I noted in an earlier post there have been only 4 declared wars in the history of our country. Here is a list of conflicts the U.S. has been involved in since the formation of our country. It's a long list, and this fellow has included armed interventions and occupations, as well as wars: http://www.historyguy.com/War_list.html#warlist12
I for one, am re-examining the time and support and energy invested in such a political system that has produced such wars.
# posted by scorpiorising : 1:44 PM |
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
History is biography---Emerson
I was in the other room attempting to watch the vice-presidential debate, and grew impatient and frustrated with the rhetorical spin from both sides. I went into my room to look for comfort from Emerson, and here is what he said to me:
"We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself---must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know. What a former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, it will lose all the good for verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule. Somewhere, sometime, it will demand compensation for that loss, by doing the work for itself. Ferguson had discovered many things in astronomy that had long been known. The better for him.
History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact--see how it could and must be..."
I am in the process of discovery of my own biography. I refuse to accept the explanations of our leaders for the "facts", because there are reasons for the facts as well. I will know for myself. I will learn for myself.
"We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself---must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know. What a former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, it will lose all the good for verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule. Somewhere, sometime, it will demand compensation for that loss, by doing the work for itself. Ferguson had discovered many things in astronomy that had long been known. The better for him.
History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all. We must in ourselves see the necessary reason of every fact--see how it could and must be..."
I am in the process of discovery of my own biography. I refuse to accept the explanations of our leaders for the "facts", because there are reasons for the facts as well. I will know for myself. I will learn for myself.
# posted by scorpiorising : 6:53 PM |
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sanity
I've debated with myself in reviewing the debate. I've expressed concern over some of John Kerry's statements regarding foreign policy in general, and the war in Iraq specifically. I've expressed these concerns to some friends and a couple of forums. The feedback has largely been to encourage me to have faith that John Kerry will do the right thing once he is elected, and I have no faith in anyone to do the right thing in high office right now, or anyone aspiring to be in high office. The only faith I have right now is in my own struggle to see through the veils everyone is wearing to hide either their true light or their true intentions, or both. I don't need anyone to understand why I am struggling with this right now, but it would be nice if at least a few people tried. I know no one is perfect but a few of John Kerry's statements in the debate I just can't let slide. So I will question everything, or as much as I want. I put no trust in believing that someone else knows what is best for me, but when I trust what I know to be best for my future, then I want the troops home now, and I think many of the troops agree with me. I read my favorite liberal blog, Atrios, who today talked about a rationalization for the draft, and did not mention the option of troop withdrawal instead, and I know today is one of those weird days, kinda like I dropped through the rabbit hole, and nothing will ever be the same again. And I'm not regretting this loss of illusion, much, but it feels a little more alone out there right now, and a little colder, mainly because so many, it seems, are enamoured of John Kerry right now, and not really listening to his words. And some of his ideas are frightening me. It is is disturbing to watch so many of the people I know and don't know who are content to put their faith in John Kerry without questioning his beliefs and plans. And isn't this what has gotten us into this mess to begin with, a very long history of voter complacency and inaction and a contentment with hero worship and subjugation of one's own intuition and inner voice. And I wonder if I might not vote in a presidential election for the first time since 1992, which was the only time I didn't vote in a presidential election (I registered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and they simply didn't have a record of it). And this life-long job of the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness also appears to be a quest for personal sanity in an increasingly delusional world.
# posted by scorpiorising : 7:59 AM |
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