Wow, We Suck
With the Bush administration clearly heading toward a catastrophic attack on Iran with little chance they'll be stopped, now is a good time to consider how much everyone involved in this process sucks.
By this I don't mean Bush blah Republicans blah suck. That's far too easy. Any honest evaluation would find significant blame lies elsewhere.
I suck
I can't emphasize this enough. I won't go into detail because it's so embarrassing, but the difference between what I've done and could have done is gigantic. In particular, it took me decades to figure out how American society works, which is as humiliating as taking thirty years to figure out tic tac toe. And I'm extending my suckiness by complaining about it publicly. In a blog post. I really, really suck.
Everyone I know sucks
My family and friends don't feel powerful because none of us is Rupert Murdoch. But on any rational scale--comparative or historical--we have enormous freedom and resources. Have we utilized even 5% of these? No. That's because we don't truly believe people in other countries are as real as we are. We've also failed to imagine the likely consequences to ourselves from our inaction. This is particularly distasteful because we're living in the first time in history when non-saintly humans can figure this stuff out, if they want to. Clearly we don't want to. We suck.
Liberal blogs suck
Arthur Silber is absolutely right about this. The blogosphere esucks.
The anti-war movement sucks
Afghanistan? Okay, that was impossible. Iraq? Well...September 11th, etc. But Iran? If you can't stop the third war in six years--one that's going to happen because shredding infants with flechettes is the last remaining activity that provides William Kristol sexual gratification--you should change your name from "anti-war movement" to "pro-sucking movement."
Democrats suck
Tautological. Democrats=suck.
Americans suck
We started out as thirteen colonies clinging to the eastern seaboard. Then we conquered the entire continent. Then we ended up with military bases in a hundred other countries. Now we're researching how to drop tungsten rods on people from space. Yet we remain convinced we're really nice. My country 'tis of suck.
Human beings suck
We've been at this "civilization" thing for 6,000 years. We've figured out fire, and making extremely tall buildings that don't fall over, and even crossing plums with apricots. Yet we've made zero progress on our main problem: slaughtering each other in generous megadeath quantities. This suggests the error is indeed bred in the bone. In Latin, our species is called homo suckapiens suckapiens.
Planet Earth sucks
Life is centered on everybody eating others until they themselves get eaten. And their entire lifespan is spent worrying about being eaten, which always happens in the end anyway. This whole setup sucks.
The universe sucks
Its apparent meaningless wouldn't be so bad if existence were solely pleasurable. In my experience, this is not the case. 13.7 billion years of suck.
In conclusion, I hate to claim there's any point to this, because that would detract from its meta-suckiness. Nevertheless, success is more likely to follow from a clear-eyed appraisal of a situation, rather than hubristic fantasies.
That's the theory, anyway. It admittedly sucks.
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Bravo, sir! It has not been stated so well since the silver-tongued orator Glenn Murphy recieved such a rousing response at the 1992 Republican National Convention with his stirring, "Morning In America, It's Not Just For Breakfast Anymore".
Perhaps Ron Paul doesn't suck?
It is so gratifying to finally hear the truth. No, not about the United States, or the President or the American people "sucking". I don't believe these things are true. Rather to have a "progressive" actually admit the contempt in which the movement and its champions hold their country and its inhabitants. Not until the "elites"-- the truly superior among us--are permitted the absolute rule which is their birthright, will the nation and the world be back on track, the thinking seems to go. Only when Rush and all opposition is silenced; when tax rates are back at 70% (or more); when members of the military are not permitted to vote; when all citizens are made to be dependent upon Big Brother and only when no one is allowed to do, say, think or believe anything not approved by some Ministry of Proper Behavior will the US once again be beloved by the world.
Well, here's to the rest of the world continuing its jealousy and resultant hatred and here's to the folks in flyover country, continuing to stumble along through our unimportant little lives. They are certainly preferable to the death, destruction and abysmal failure seen in every nation which has placed its future in the tender and caring hands of the left.
Realizing you suck is the beginning of wisdom.
The beginning, not the end.
Interesting that this Biblical description of humankind occurs on a Liberal blog. But I'm not surprised at that.
The Repubs just SAY they are sinners. We know we are fallible. A few of us have too much hubris still, but we mostly know we are "only human", in other words, we suck--but we are so much more than that--stardust, too!
Maybe if they could find Osama Bush wouldn't be starting so many bogus wars.
I know one thing ...whoever is elected as the next President is going to suck and be in office for just one term. There is no way anybody can clean up the mess they will inherit in just four years. Why in the hell anybody would want the job is beyond me. So, to Hillary,Barack Rudy,Mitt or whoever it is..........you're going to suck!
Of course they suck. They are human beings, they are fatally flawed, they have a herd mentality.
The most pro-war Democrat running is running away with the nomination, and they are completely content to sit back and let it happen, because Hillary Clinton is "Bill Clinton's" wife and she has a "D" beside her name.
It's a joke,
Groupthink sucks.
How can they stop a war, when they can't even stop a Democrat who they don't want nominated.
I'm frankly sick of it, myself.
Gawd forbid that any heinous extremist should point out that the blame for the USA's situation necessarily rests squarely on the Amurrican Sheeple as a whole. THEY are the ones who refuse to actually DO something about Napoleon Bonehead and his regime. Oh, yes, they express disapproval in polls (maybe), but that's about as far as it goes for "good Americans." Face it, the Amurrican Sheeple are the most over-rated national group on the face of the Earth.
Blogger, please!
Let admirals be admirals and generals be generals. They want to attack Iran. Why not let them? They're doing their part to exhaust the American empire, and in this they should be encouraged and fully funded. Go, Pentagon!
You're right. Man! We do suck!
Jonathan, it took many of us decades to figure out how American society and power worked! However, with the new medium of the Internet where information and know-how are readily accessible, you better believe many people are waking up to the reality of our modern country. Once people become conscious of something, that something tends to transform.
Jonathan,
Careful, all that sucking qualifies you for Dubya's administration.
Larry Craig sucks. So do Bob Allen, Mark Foley, Matt Sanchez, Jeff Gannon, Ted Haggard and those 3 republicans in Florida who killed each other recently in the most under-reported homocide (it's a pun, not a misspelling)ever.
And it really sucks that the "March on Washington" rally today is nowhere to be found online. It's yet to be on C-SPAN's scedule. Why didn't the organizers, ANSWER, think of this is all their months of planning? This event should be streamed somewhere live, huffpost, myspace, youtube, you pick. In this day and age to forget this most powerful tool totally sucks!
I would leave three toed sloths out of this. Their survival advantage: slowness. They are so slow that predators don't even notice them. Or maybe they notice but think, "god their slow, it's not even worth the bother. Where's the fun in that non-chase?"
Three toed sloths do not suck, they rock.
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