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politics: i voted and am not living under a rock so of course today's post can't exist without some comment on all that...i doubt there's anyone who'd read this that would be terribly shocked to find out that someone [me in particular] is not happy about the outcome of our election...i'm sorely disappointed but not surprised...i had hope, but i unfortunately expected this even more...my fears were correct...i may have to abandon the faith in humanity i'd desperately tried to cling onto and go completely over the top into cynicism...oh well...i guess there's not much i can say about all that...don't take my word on this, as i'm sure the laziness that consititues my core being will take over, but i'm considering actually paying a bit of attention to politics now...i just really don't feel comfortable that things'll just go their own merry way, some good some bad but still carrying on like they always have...i see vectors pointing off into the distance, held firmly in place...i finally think i might be scared of not paying attention...like i said, once the heat of the current events cools down and my natural sloth takes over who knows how far i'll actually go...but i fear some shit's gonna happen ("we can make up all sorts of crazy laws!") and i at least don't wanna be surprised afterwards when i find out through my 5th hand sources over the internet (a truly informed citizen...) anyway, enough policital blather...not really much of anything has happened otherwise...Jacques came over tonight after work and we talked about the band a little (that was the itent of the "meeting") but mostly we just bitched about politics...fun stuff...

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I know you wished for the best, but you knew precisely what would happen and it did. Not that I have anything particularly insightful to say but. . . I don't know anything about politics but I know about the state of people around me and I can tell you the same thing I told Jacques. It's no longer the upstart, progressive country it started out as. It no longer lauds scholarship and it's taken refuge in morality as that's more accessible than logic. But it doesn't realize that it's changed. It retains the pompousness of 200 years ago which has kinda been skewed into self-righteousness. We don't live in a country that's compatible with us, Robert. We will be disappointed all the time and we just have to put up with that. America's just like your high school class - a few smart people and a truckload of fundamentalist jackoffs.

to be fair, nearly half of the country's voters cast their ballot for kerry. we might forget that enlightened people exist, but they do...just not so much in our immediate vicinity. i really think that if you divided the country strictly into the categories of "fundamentalist jackoffs" and "smart people," then the "smart people" would have the majority. it's just that the "smart people" are also likely to be too lazy to vote, or maybe they think that their vote doesn't matter (which i guess it doesn't), or whatever. it sucks.

Though I know about 1/2 went for Kerry, I'm not equating that necessarily with intelligence or enlightenment. I mean, it's a relatively smarter choice but. . . Maybe around election time or Christmas, people like Jacques or Robert or whoever I think has a decent head on their shoulders gets a little hopeful when on any other day, they'd be just as cynical. I don't know about them, but people disappoint me every every day. Some may say it's because I live in the Bible Belt but I can't help but think it's like this everywhere. No one pays attention, no one retains the most basic of information, no one seems to wanna do better. I mean, if they did, I'd have more friends. It does suck.

Well, if we all get drafted, maybe there'll be a nice, warm, sandy spot we can practice on...

Which reminds me, on election day I had to go install a satellite dish at the Republican headquarters in East Memphis. I overheard some lady talking about how some of the teenagers that they had holding up signs at some of the voting sites had been given some choice phrases and hand gestures from some Kerry supporters. Someone had told the Bush kids that "they were going to get drafted". And the woman said, "well, our kids may get drafted, but at least they had a chance to be born".

alright...give 'em a chance to have conciousness and feelings and THEN destroy them...praise be the lord!!!

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