Before We’re At Each Other’s Throats
It seems the country is getting more and more divided and I feel it on a personal level as my everyday discussions (when I can’t avoid politics) become more and more adversarial. But it seems to me that us everyday-folk should be more together and questioning the loud noises coming from the right and the left. Michael Moore’s movie has just been released, and though I have not seen it, I fear that the fault line will become more tenuous when lots do. I plan to check it out myself and comment on this site. Here are a few reviews I’ve read:
Unfairenheit 9/11, Christopher Hitchens
Review: Fahrenheit 9/11, BBC
Less is Moore in subdued, effective ‘9/11′, Roger Ebert
June 30th, 2004 at 1:09 am
I’m glad to see a slight bi-partisan comment, however, your true colors shine through. I’ll keep waiting for your Sadaam death count — I lost track at 300,000.
July 6th, 2004 at 9:38 am
I assume you mean Iraqi death count? Or do you mean the number of people Sadaam killed in his day? Happy to post either or both here if you’ve got a link. Thanks for the comment.
August 25th, 2004 at 2:54 pm
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August 29th, 2004 at 12:38 pm
Time for my $.02 worth. In a bipartisan system, a citizen is left with two options, good vs. evil (right vs. wrong). Each side will try to convince you why they are good and the other is evil. If you are for the Democrats, you are FOR killing babies. If you are for the Republicans, you are FOR killing Iraqis, our soldiers and perpetuating the cycle of war. What we fail to see is that the truth, as we all know, lies behind the rhetoric and faulty man-made constructs. It lies in the middle, where nobody seems to want to reside, because it is a place of eternal flip-flopping and doubt…or a place of extreme calm and serenity, depending on the individual’s level of self-respect. And where’s the fun (drama)in that, right? Before I start going on about Taoism and all of its appeals, I will stay on point. As long as we continue to allow our bipartisan monster with two heads to continue forming and gaining juggernautian power, there will be no end in sight to the binging and purging which is war then peace, bull then bear, wax then wane. And perhaps this is the true nature of the universe so I should just shut up, but if this world REALLY ever wants to start moving toward being a place of lasting peace, I think the place we need to start is our own minds. Stop being so sure that your beliefs are the right ones or that you know something the rest of us don’t know. There are few people in this world who really know the “truth” and how humanity functions at the highest levels and I think that most people would have their realities tossed on their heads if they really knew how power, wealth and resources are EVERYTHING. I’ll leave with two quotations from some of my heroes:
“I’m bored with the concepts of right and wrong, radio stations always play the same songs” — Madonna
“It takes a second to wreck it, it takes time to build (you gots to chill)” — the Beastie Boys
March 15th, 2005 at 12:07 pm
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