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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rick McDougall who wrote (499333)	11/27/2003 12:52:12 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

Save Yourself Sinner! It's not a "brand" new world. You've been co-opted by the public relations whores to talk corporatese even when you don't mean to. There are no "brands" in reality. Except for those burned into cowhide. What you mean to speak of is old-hat to old "New Leftists" like me. You are referring to a "Brave New World", described in deliciously totalitarian detail by Aldous Huxley in 1929. "Brave" being used in the ironic sense. He was anticipating the horrendous totalitarian regimes of the 1930s. Hitler's Nazi Germany. Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Stalin's Soviet Union. Hirohito's Imperial Far East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. What Huxley couldn't have imagined was how feral, how ruthless and how aggressive a product of the Enlightenment of the 18th Century like the "city on the hill" of America could have become. We are now the dystopian destroyers of the planet. We are the nexis of evil. We are, as the history books lie to us about Robert Oppenheimer's first words at the success at Jornado de Muerto thus "'I [have become] Death, Destroyer of Worlds". (He actually was quoted by his brother Frank as saying: "Wow, it worked!") America has become the nexis of evil on the planet. But only because the people are too cowed, too branded, too insipid, too tame and too lame to rise up in a revolution against the forces of evil. That being mostly the Republican Party.