It was during the previous president's administration that I first took notice of the war on logic. I didn't have a blog then. But I wrote about it. I'm talking, of course, of the Orwellian language the right uses so often. (They must have whole teams of people sitting around developing new terms, as the need arises!) To confuse the populace...
A tiny divergence: As a young child I read and reread Animal Farm many times. Among other influences I think it turned me into a leftist in righty household. It fitted so perfectly with the parochial school teaching as well! Ah.... the insidious nature of religious training - which outwits even the hierarchs sitting in Rome. (I think the book was included in a set of children's literature that came along with the Encylopedia: Subversive influences, unbeknownst to them - Robin Hood and A Tale of Two Cities and others like The Prince and the Pauper and Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn. Also Uncle Tom's Cabin?) Boy, did I get an education from those surreptitiously "smuggled-in" books.
But I digress...
I learned this morning that killing-machines - assault weapons - are actually "sold" as Sports rifles. Together with the tactical reality "world" which these freedom-loving "folks" are encouraged to imagine they live in. It's important, apparently, for us now to "get to know" this alternate reality - a world of Paranoia in which killing is sport. Well... they wouldn't agree with that conclusion, but indeed, when you translate the language: sports = assault = killing. There's no getting around it!
The sad deaths of so many tiny children... taking us to so many unexpected dark alleys. This is becoming like a Hydra - where hideous heads blossom each time we think we've nailed a new and horrible fact that's come to light. And it's worth returning to Greek mythology, given that Cerberus Capitol (owner/maker of the so aptly named Bushmaster, apocalyptic killing machine - sold for "sport") has now concluded that being the Top Gun maker has some liabilities attached to it...
Tiny liabilities, whose names, tolled one by one... in funerals and on black-bannered TV screens will never leave us. Ever.
Watch out for the WAR on logic! You can see it in the fights over taxes. The fights over a so-called fiscal cliff. And now, of course, particularly in this "joined battle" over killing-guns... ugh ... sports rifles.
Watch out for alternate realities! Where global weirding never comes. Where guns (not people!) do the killing. Or if people do it, they're deranged ... so it's simply a mental health problem, not a gun problem.
Watch out for the word "Freedom"! Cerberus Capital calls its gun division "Freedom." Supposedly more and more guns - even in the hands of teachers - would guarantee children their freedom. Or else the little ones can be trained to defend their freedom via rushing a sportsman taking target practice - using them.
A tiny divergence: As a young child I read and reread Animal Farm many times. Among other influences I think it turned me into a leftist in righty household. It fitted so perfectly with the parochial school teaching as well! Ah.... the insidious nature of religious training - which outwits even the hierarchs sitting in Rome. (I think the book was included in a set of children's literature that came along with the Encylopedia: Subversive influences, unbeknownst to them - Robin Hood and A Tale of Two Cities and others like The Prince and the Pauper and Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn. Also Uncle Tom's Cabin?) Boy, did I get an education from those surreptitiously "smuggled-in" books.
But I digress...
I learned this morning that killing-machines - assault weapons - are actually "sold" as Sports rifles. Together with the tactical reality "world" which these freedom-loving "folks" are encouraged to imagine they live in. It's important, apparently, for us now to "get to know" this alternate reality - a world of Paranoia in which killing is sport. Well... they wouldn't agree with that conclusion, but indeed, when you translate the language: sports = assault = killing. There's no getting around it!
The sad deaths of so many tiny children... taking us to so many unexpected dark alleys. This is becoming like a Hydra - where hideous heads blossom each time we think we've nailed a new and horrible fact that's come to light. And it's worth returning to Greek mythology, given that Cerberus Capitol (owner/maker of the so aptly named Bushmaster, apocalyptic killing machine - sold for "sport") has now concluded that being the Top Gun maker has some liabilities attached to it...
Tiny liabilities, whose names, tolled one by one... in funerals and on black-bannered TV screens will never leave us. Ever.
Watch out for the WAR on logic! You can see it in the fights over taxes. The fights over a so-called fiscal cliff. And now, of course, particularly in this "joined battle" over killing-guns... ugh ... sports rifles.
Watch out for alternate realities! Where global weirding never comes. Where guns (not people!) do the killing. Or if people do it, they're deranged ... so it's simply a mental health problem, not a gun problem.
Watch out for the word "Freedom"! Cerberus Capital calls its gun division "Freedom." Supposedly more and more guns - even in the hands of teachers - would guarantee children their freedom. Or else the little ones can be trained to defend their freedom via rushing a sportsman taking target practice - using them.
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