(in that recurrent argument with Spock re the bloodthirstiness of homus sapus)

Yes! We're Killers!! ..but each day we can get up and say, "Today I will not kill. Today I won't Kill.."

So... yes - 'we' are venal; our cupidity is our Hallmark. We are sanctimonious; our massive hypocrisy and shallowness is how we are known in all times and places elsewhere in the world - and we are simplistic, juvenile and.. more often lately - just plain nasty. BUT.. something within the best of 'us' Knows This as even (the writer for a ham-actor like 'Kirk') Knows This.

Maybe that's actually the Best you ever Can get from homus sapus - the stirrings of an inner 'watcher' who knows when you are being naughty. And it's fucking irrelevant to embroider that Watcher with oozy veneers of Corp religious theory du jour, or psychobabble either. Anyone half-alive knows something about the Guts inside, however inarticulate about the label.

'We' either Listen to that voice inside - or we lock-step behind the Dubyas and their handlers (and beaucoup apologists) and warm up Onward Christian Soldiers One More Time.

You OTOH: suggest it's all a fait accompli because {sigh}\ufffd that's Just The Way We Are. Bull shit. That's The Way mobs are - not individuals. And it's only ever a few individuals.. who ever 'do anything' anyway, and who refuse to yield to recursive and lugubrious resignation.

In the past, we've been very slow to rise to the occasion. Look how many years of Vietnam slaughterr had to occur before hundreds of thousands finally marched in cities all across the US - not just Berkeley! The techno of today - including esp. re instant communications of what-if?s - denies us the sloth of 'waiting a few years/months?' for it to get Rilly Bad in the march towards WW-III. And those nukes awaiting.

This Time: we have a hick with the football, and one clearly intent upon unilateral pursuit of Fixing the World His Way, and one who neither knows what the rest of the world really thinks - or *cares*.

Anyway Dan, I guess we'll both see -shortly- whether the sloth of Inertia Rulez.


Ashton

PS Dubya just *NOW* said on Newshour.. I'm sick and tired of his deceptions... Now we all know what follows Any demagogue's use of that trite piece of Doggerel Americanus: No Thought Will Follow It.

It's gonna be a Bumpy Ride.