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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (38264)	7/28/2004 7:54:53 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

:-) Nothing to fear but fear itself..? I have often wondered, with a certain smidge of embarrassment, at my slow, steady, inexorable drift from the fashionable politics of the Left. Why, I was perfectly happy, smug in my readings of those, who reviewed the critiques that summarized the thrice-translated works of Marx and Engels. Lenins head as graffiti on the park fence was art to my nascent eyes. Red sickle and workers rights on billboards along the mile between home and school where I grew up. Calcutta. City of smog and joy. City of politics and hotheads. Of beautiful women and the despair of hungry nights. Of spiced monsoon winds and mile-long queues for food rations. Of dazzling humanity living with daily rolling blackouts.. This, the home of the Indian political Left. With all your smug, all-knowing, hot-headed Bengalis, happy to be the chosen proletariat, the last scions of Marx. One speculates on this journey at times. Like an introspective housecleaning, if I may be so bold, from communitarian elitist, to somewhat rugged individualist. From loving the abstract people to loving the freedom that is ones' gift to oneself. From wide-eyed idealist, to a different sort of idealist. A tempered one, perhaps. There is still time, much learning and loving still left. Yearning for new knowledge, new skills, new vistas are still fresh. So what is it about today's political Left of which I so despair. Rooting out "a" cause, leads me to fear. Something so elemental to the human condition, something so simple, that it is so easily overlooked. What runs in the vein of todays Leftist is fear. It is fear of hurting others, of being hurt. It is fear of doing wrong, and causing others to do wrong. It is the fear of self, the fear of the vast, diverse, chorus of humanity, none of whom can be counted upon to order society in the exact image of their most fervent desires.. Are you fearful of men? Then young boys in schools must, for the sake of their fellows, take Ritalin to warp their personalities. Afraid of the penis are you, of young men holding it as they take their piss. Then teach young boys to do so sitting down. Fearful of freedom for those unsuited to your intellectual class..? Why then, the solution is simple. Take it away, as being good for them. The proles have no need to be free, because they would not know what to do with it. Are you afraid of humanity, crowding the planet? Then wish for more of them to die. Under the heels of well-spoken dictators, and ranting priests. Or under the equally vicious heels of environmental grandstanders. I have little time for fear these days. Not when I have but one life to live, and die for. Not when there is spring each year, rustling through the cherry blossoms of my yard. Not when there is love, and family, and friends to cherish. Not when there is always hope, always a silver lining to cut the dull pain of despair that hammers and pounds at our lives. I did not have to abandon the Left. It drifted away from me, on to the jagged shoals of self-loathing, condescending victimhood masquerading as the moral high ground. What a turpid waste of human capital.. what a shame..! palit.com