[lbo-talk] Obama got Osama

[Joshua Morey]

let's not forget that while a couple thousand idiots disturbingly pounded
their chests in patriotic stupor last night and today, hundreds of thousands
of idiots in the US (and millions across the world) celebrated solidarity,
demanded rights, etc yesterday, from the largest cities to the smallest
towns - immigrant workers, unions, working people of all stripes marching
together ... not that you'd know from watching/listening to the news, and
for good reason.

It seems to me that the American Idiocy thesis implies a corresponding
thesis - that the preacher of such a thesis is exceptional and permitted to
despair and mock rather than do anything about the hopeless state of the
idiots (which Alan describes quite well).

I'm not sure that's the card that will cause the house to crumble.

Finally, thank you Dennis for capturing so eloquently what many of my
friends and i have struggled to put to words.

Joshua

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Michael Yates: One exchange had to do with how Obama will definitely get
> > good sex from his wife and how he will be saying while having sex that
> he's
> > the man. Another says we should have nuked the whole country long ago
> (not
> > sure if this is Afghanistan or Pakistan). Another, a college grad, said
> that
> > bin Laden was ran (sic) over by a reindeer, an amphibious reindeer, a
> Navy
> > seal... Still another said bin Laden was killed on Easter, payback from
> > Jesus.
> >
> > These are all people I know.
> >
> > Somebody: Further confirmation of the American Idiocracy thesis. You'll
> > hardly ever get Americans united in glorifying anything progressive.
> Maybe
> > if all forms of cancer were cured tomorrow you'd see similar revelry, but
> I
> > doubt it. Probably you'd have parents protesting that the cancer cure
> causes
> > child autism.
>
>
>
> Give up, they are idiots, there's nothing to be done, we cannot win, no
> movement can be generated, they hate their own freedoms, we need to despise
> them, give up, all there is to do is to feel superior while shaking our
> oh-so-knowing heads and saying tsk, tsk, no one has ever seen surprising
> political shifts occur, much less shockingly quick ones, everyone saw
> 1963/64 and 1967/68 coming in 1958, it was obvious and everyone was filled
> with hope. There is no potential immanence in contradiction, Americans feel
> no cognitive dissonance, the yahoos stand for us all! Give up!
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