The thing about insanity - (according to Freud) is that once you quit questioning your sanity, THAT is when you are really insane.

And a lot of people in this country HAVE quit questioning anything, and another good percentage of those people left are trying to shut up the remaining ones who DO.

Decius wrote:
This is what I don't get... I go to CNN the other day and they have a picture of the VT killer pointing a gun at the camera.... On their main page above the fold, pointing a gun at me. And I have to look at that. And that's "journalism." That's "my right to know." But at the same time, in his rant, he says things like fuck, and motherfucker, and I can't see that. I don't get to hear that. The media has protected me from that. And thats supposed to make sense. Its supposed to be natural for the media to want to protect my innocent ears from hearing the word fuck, but it is their obliglation to show me a shocking photograph of a murderer pointing a hand gun at a camera. On their front page.

Do you think normal people are sane?

Here is another thing I don't get. We used to be a free country. It used to be the case that if the President felt that you should be arrested that you would receive a fair trial with assistance of counsel before a jury of your peers. But thats gone. Today, the President can detain you for any reason indefinately, without trial. There is no bill of rights anymore. Its impossible in such circumstances, because checks and balances, which no longer exist, are the keystone of freedom.

But we have an individual who masterminded a plot to blow up an airplane containing 73 innocent people. And he is free, in this country, because, it was in our interests. In my mind, the murder of 73 innocent people is never... moral..... But he is free... In this country, and the tools that exist to detain people without trial are not being used against him. Perhaps the death of those 73 innocent people reduced my tax burden. Perhaps many in this country support this. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't get it.

I don't think we are what we think we are.

Welcome to the party.

Decius wrote:
I don't think we are what we think we are.

I think we're a bunch of semi-civilized monkeys with bad opinions and worse manners stuck on a train that's not too terribly far from dropping right off a precipice.

It's sad to think that even with all the bullshit, America's still one of the best places in the world, but it seems to me like the nation at large is doing everything they can to change that.

-k