The Collected Posts of Anonymoses
Anonymoses baruchthescribe@yahoo.com
http://anonymoses.blogspot.com
Reading your post, I am reminded of a scene in the Sam Shepard play, "True West"...where Lee (played most famously by John Malkovich) says to Austin (Gary Sinese), after listening to all the "advice" his younger brother is giving him:
"I'll just turn myself inside-out. I'll be just like you then!"
America is Austin. The younger brother, who thinks he can simply tell all that he dislikes to change and become him or like him. But Mesopotamia is old, ancient, and has intrinsic worth...just as they are. They do not need an overlay of Jerry Springer and Oprah to make them as good as us. They already are. We, however, could learn a thing or two from ancient cultures that our shallow Media fails at addressing. Granted, it would be easier to vacation there if they turned into Las Vegas. But our dollars are hollow and blood-soaked. What we are doing is not altrustic, except as a bi-product of our own greed and expansionism. So what that thousands are killed in order to make way for the new highway! Many will be living in high cotton!
And speaking of cotton...I am also reminded of the "success" of Southern plantations. Many succeeded beyond our wildest imaginings. But succeeded for whom? And at what cost? And whose lives are sacrificed for this desire for success. As Lin Yutang says, the desire for Success is really just a euphemism for a fear of failure.
Now we're talking politics.
You chide the peaceniks. Yet were it not for us peaceniks, the world would hate us through and through. We show the world that not all Americans are swaggering Imperialists.
And we are speaking our minds and hearts. Something all people share. Like Peace, and the love thereof. Peace gives rise to more creative jobs than the manufacture of advanced forms of death. Remember the Age of Exuberance? It was just before the Age of Terror, ushered in by, well, the Supreme Court a few very long years ago.
You may be right about future history books though...especially now that most things have to get the official stamp of approval, on its way to an undisclosed location.
History needn't be so censorious. We need the entire story, and are never given it. Why should that change?
Well written post, but I detect a koolade moustache.
-Anon
