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John Perry Barlow's Pox Americana:
But George II has been working for the Lord ever since he was divinely instructed some years back to stop snorting blow. He knows that God wants us to have oil and that the world's second largest petroleum reserves are not to be entrusted to a people whose divine messenger was, to quote Jerry Falwell, "a terrorist."

I don't think that our new Emperor is an evil man. But he has the kind of unquestioning belief in his own virtue that is the richest loam for growing evil. He is simply too weak to possess this kind of power without misusing it. And now we have removed all the Constitutional impediments that might have checked his hubris. We have thrown ourselves on the mercy of a conscience too clear to be reliable.


{Barlow's got that same thing most everybody else does, that it's all about evil by intention. so that blowing up the world is more evil than doing it by accident. I feel that less and less the closer we get. I think it comes from being spanked as toddlers. the idea that why you did something is more important than what got done. and in the family in the parent/child relationship I think that's valid accurate and true, at the scale of planetary annihilation I think the distinction's meaningless. about 7 years ago I got this hit that what 'we' were, whoever 'we' are, could disappear and something here would go on, just like always, that's one of the conceits they brainwashed us with at the get, that we're essential, at the same time we were dwindling away, that urgency that sense of TRY and don't quit, that's its origin. so now it's about fighting the sense of futility, the cynical nausea, the madness of pudge-brained refusal to face the mirror. my personal very personal struggle is with the increasing hunger for the removal of the human race from the planet. that seems like a pretty irrevocable move all in all. but I'm so thoroughly disgusted with people like Bush/Cheney and Falwell, and their counterparts in the world of finance, and they seem so inextricably attached to the way things are, like a tick with its head buried in your brain,you know? can't remove it without major damage, leave it there and it'll kill you, the times call for brain surgeons everywhere to work ceaselessly....me, I'm off to the bakery for another day of daily bread delivery}
{which all misses the point pretty well. on my part. the point is I agree with Barlow, except that I'm getting closer every day to having no ability to distinguish between evil on purpose and evil by accident.
what difference does it make if Bush is a moronic sock puppet or the devil's yardboy incarnate? if he causes the death of the human race the human race is dead. you have to believe in an afterlife don't you? I mean you HAVE to, otherwise it doesn't matter why. it just matters what.}