Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

Oh, you lieberal sillies are getting their panties in a twist again!

This time, you’re upset that our dear President George W. Bush stopped an investigation into his conduct, using the power of the government that is, of course at his disposal. He got elected, duh, it’s his government, he can do what he wants to with it!

What’s funnier than this typical liberal stupidity is their suggestion that everybody “fix” things by writing a letter to the editor, calling a Congressman on the phone, or marching in the street or something like that. But they miss the point. Nothing will ever, ever be accomplished by trying to get people to change things for the better. The liberals would do much better if they learned to pray (it’s spelled P-R-A-Y) with fervor for the changes they wanted to see happen, and then learned to wait for God’s grace to make itself evident in the world.

That’s how real change will come about. Not stupid liberals insulting other people in the media!

Idiots!

Yesterday, I wrote about the online virtual world of Second Life. I was interested in seeing if there is any potential at all for the development of Second Life as an arena for political activism. Could you set up a virtual environment within which political activists could meet and discuss? Would it be worth it to set up virtual billboards with political messages, or to set up a virtual shop where people could buy virtual t-shirts with virtual slogans for real life presidential candidates?

This morning, I have to say no. It’s nifty for about 30 minutes to go flying through this virtual world, looking at virtual spaceships and virtual houses with virtual statues, but after awhile, it begins to seem pointless. Real people spend real money to buy fake land in this virtual world. They pay real money rent on that land, and spend real time building houses made of nothing but pixels. They flit about from place to place, having conversations with other people they’ve never met, about where to go in that virtual world to get more virtual things. Hour after hour, it goes on.

And meanwhile, here in the real world, the most powerful person on Earth, the President of the United States, has been revealed to have used his power to block an investigation into his own criminal activity.

In any normal time, such an act would result in a political firestorm sure to end the presidency. But, these are not ordinary times. Tired of being outraged, Americans have mostly just stopped paying attention. When another Bush crime, another Bush abuse of power is revealed, Americans are now so used to having a Creep In Chief that they merely shrug their shoulders, say “I thought as much,” and move on.

Americans don’t want to be angry. They don’t want to be upset. So, they tune out. They may not all log into Second Life, but they enter their own little virtual worlds nonetheless, going about their business as if nothing is happening, shopping, watching funny TV shows, going to the movies, and above all else, not reading the newspaper. Americans are tripped out on denial. Timothy Leary, LSD has nothing on the the GOP.

I am frightened of what I will see today in reaction to this new example of President Bush’s abuse of power, the position he takes that he is above the law. I’m afraid that I won’t see much.

We’ll go on hearing about the fake billboards to get people to visit the That Girl Emily blog. We’ll discuss about how Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson are going to get married. We’ll get more news about the right wing outrage that President Bush used the word “shit”. We’ll be transfixed by the questions about whether Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are on the verge of getting a divorce or not. We’ll eagerly await Ted Danson’s new sitcom.

Faced with this new low, this new open defiance of the law by our own president, I am afraid that Americans will simply choose to go to the beach.