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Edited on Mon Jan-16-06 02:43 PM by dusmcj
In the Connected and Under Control world his Daddy's lackeys (Poppy administration) socially engineered, the Faaaaaaaaaaather's symbolic significance was rediscovered, and your and my poor Dads were appropriated and commodified by fascist clamfuckers who wanted us all the straighten up and fly right after the effeminate perversion of the 1960s. Cause having the male assume his rightful role as figure of strength and protector is what Natural Law demands, and only by doing that can we show Resolve, be Confident and Firm, and be Leaders.
So now Bozo boy believes that he, he alone, shoulders the awesome responsibility of protecting the Merkin people in the way he and his wise counsellors think best.
It's the personalization of government, in the sense of formation of a cult of personality, of the significance of the individual, the way pissant dictators have done it since time immemorial. Hitler, one of the most expert, reduced it to its essence with "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer" (one country, one people, one leader), both establishing his identity with Germany and the German people, and asserting the power of that unified entity (unified, unitary, let's call the whole thing off). Similarly, the pig Ceauscecu and his excrement wife in Romania claimed that they were the mother and father of the people, and proceeded to insist that they descend into squalor. Vermin all. Attempting to use parental behavioral dynamics to control others is a hallmark of the lowest fascist sewage.
A few hundred years ago, some smart people discovered that the rational worked better than the cathartic, and derived therefrom that all the bullshit about the local pissant in power having god on his side and being inherently more meritorious than his subjects was just that, bullshit, meant to prop up mediocre vandals who pillaged their people and gave nothing in return. Instead the smart people realized that all living things have certain inherent, or unalienable, rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that no man, including none organized into a government, has the right to impede another in his exercise of those.
This notion was fairly unpopular, and gave rise to various unpleasantnesses like the American and French revolutions, and the disposal of various antiquated feudal governments. This notion is still fairly unpopular, and is the subject of the cultural war being waged here and abroad today, between entities that label themselves "liberal" and "conservative". Not that their actual positions necessarily correspond to the historical meanings of those words. Nevertheless, some facts as absolute, or might as well be as far as we're concerned with our short lifetimes and limited visions, and among them are that a depersonalized social organization built around rational structure and respect for those inherent individual rights, is far superior to one which revolves around who's the alpha male of the moment, which is more useful for tribes fighting for their subsistence survival and more comprehensible to primitive creatures not necessarily human who cannot think in more complex terms than strength, weakness, fear, and fear of weakness. Mr. Bush, by attempting to arrogate to himself, incorrectly and uninterestingly, personal responsibility for the safety of Americans, mistakes the fact that the entire government, all three branches, has collective responsibility as an institution, not as a set of individuals, for that safety, and that the particular individuals who occupy its offices have a simple obligation, not for self-aggrandizement, but instead to implement that structure as effectively as possible. The best artist is often the anonymous one. Have a nice day, monkeys.
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