Reply #46: What still moves it back into the fucking closet? Lack of self-worth and [View All]

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feelings of inadequacy. Shit, the bush* administration has nothing to do with it. Short digression: several very astute persons have pointed out that the only publications or organizations that have gone out of their way to deny bush* electoral fraud are *liberal*. Consider Salon which used to feature electoral-fraud-deny-boy Farhood Manjoo. Look at the other top-o'-the-line *liberal* website, KOS--just suggesting electoral fraud will get your ass banned. Why is this?

In the same vein, the first group to gloss over AIDS werecertain contingents of gays, the most affected and the first to bring awareness to the masses. People--beautiful, wonderful, feeling, fabulous people--still equate AIDS as some type of retribution, some form of ultimate judgment. When something bad happens to someone, especially catastrophic, especially profound--and the first thing we try to do is justify it. Somehow, someway. For being such an aware and intelligent species, we are such children on a cosmic scale. And ultimately, why do we shy away from our own when they are stricken and terminal? We see our own mortality. We of The Simpsons and Burger King and George Cloony and Amazon.com know in the back of our minds that we get right around eighty years, if we're lucky. For all our awareness and our complexness, we are still frightened by our own shortcomings. We are all still the frightened child whistling past the graveyard.