No..._____there IS something new

*A new generation* raised from momma's* knee on the slogans (unchanged) of past iterations. Wrapped in The Flag, stocked with the Jingoism... and blinkers donned - to blindly go where others have gone.

* fewer and fewer poppas stick around, after the 3-minute Fun part.. nowadays.

The dehumanization is always Step #1: what new epithet shall replace the gooks of the Vietnam prototype? (We weren't screwing around in the Balkans long enought to create a 'Bucktoothed Jap' surrogate there.)

Common denominator though: there's Always marlowesque rhetoric in the sports bars, at this stage of the A) impatience for Action B) further simplification of the Whys for the Action and - just How Far We Should Go *THIS* Time... but without C) Hurting the GNP / shopping toooo much.

[but it'll be Fine to raid the school, medical, SS funds {illusionary as they are anyway} since WTF: mostly it'll hit the smarmy Me-Me-Me Boomers first..] and who wants to train any really Smart kids? Hell, That isn't what our educational system is supposed to produce!

Smart Kids could pronounce cannon fodder and realize They Are it.

(Wish I could find the libretto for The Green Table, a kinda stage ballet of >20 years ago: showing the Pols gesticulating around a Big Green Table / and then as the lights dimmed: showed the *consequences*, the heaped dead burned young bodies. Then later - at the Table - they all shook hands over the 30-yr.old. Cognac. THAT's our Real History)

Damn.. don't we ever tire of re-runs?

Post #33,178 by Ashton 3/22/02 3:44:07 PM Reply	No..._____there IS something new A new generation raised from momma's* knee on the slogans (unchanged) of past iterations. Wrapped in The Flag, stocked with the Jingoism... and blinkers donned - to blindly go where others have gone. * fewer and fewer poppas stick around, after the 3-minute Fun part.. nowadays. The dehumanization is always Step #1: what new epithet shall replace the gooks of the Vietnam prototype? (We weren't screwing around in the Balkans long enought to create a 'Bucktoothed Jap' surrogate there.) Common denominator though: there's Always marlowesque rhetoric in the sports bars, at this stage of the A) impatience for Action B) further simplification of the Whys for the Action and - just How Far We Should Go THIS Time... but without C) Hurting the GNP / shopping toooo much. [but it'll be Fine to raid the school, medical, SS funds {illusionary as they are anyway} since WTF: mostly it'll hit the smarmy Me-Me-Me Boomers first..] and who wants to train any really Smart kids? Hell, That isn't what our educational system is supposed to produce! Smart Kids could pronounce cannon fodder and realize They Are it. (Wish I could find the libretto for The Green Table, a kinda stage ballet of >20 years ago: showing the Pols gesticulating around a Big Green Table / and then as the lights dimmed: showed the consequences, the heaped dead burned young bodies. Then later - at the Table - they all shook hands over the 30-yr.old. Cognac. THAT's our Real History) Damn.. don't we ever tire of re-runs?
Post #33,179 by Ashton 3/22/02 3:49:25 PM Reply	Omniscient LRPD notes: ____ It's Howdy Doody Time!
Post #33,219 by Brandioch 3/22/02 10:47:30 PM Reply	Heh heh heh. Damn.. don't we ever tire of re-runs? What was that about "those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it? All that is old is new again. I say we get over there and teach them gooks a lesson about how we'll make them free!
Post #33,257 by a6l6e6x 3/23/02 7:15:46 PM Reply	Who said? - George Santayana said. George Santayana famously warned that "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it." Alex "Never express yourself more clearly than you think." -- Neils Bohr (1885-1962)

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