Subliminal's blog: "Subliminal Lies"

So, the rumour is that there was an attack on this nation in September of '01, I'm sure everyone here remembers the small bit of media coverage it garnered. Actually, I'm sure everyone here remembers it with startling clarity. I don't, I was working 3rd shift at the time and was asleep.

But that's not the point.

Until that point, the nation was kinda groovy and cool. We were relaxed and pretty awesome, one of the single best nations on the planet. Sure, we had a dunce for a president, but come on, we survived Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, didn't we? We could survive this nincompoop with no trouble, but then two atom bombs were dropped on NYC, and the nation changed. For the better, for the worse. In the direct aftermath, it was actually interesting to watch. We were all terrified, and being extra friendly to one another, but after the shock war off, we were no longer united. There were lines being drawn in the sand, and it became very much like grade school. Very cliqueish, especially after Voldemort declared on national television, global television in this world of satellite and news agencies being broadcast around the world "You're either with us or with the terr'rists."

If only life were that simple, W.

There is no black and white in this universe only varying and subtle shades of grey. We sat in our homes and we watched, and slowly this mentality began to spiral out of control. We, as in the country, became divided into Red States and Blue States, and both sides were taking pot-shots at the others and still are.

The Democrats are liberal elitist intellectuals, and the Republicans are idiotic neanderthals holding onto their God and Guns, but once again - it's not that simple, but that is how each side is viewed by the other. We, as a nation, have come totally polarised. It's trying to change, maybe, now that we have a more open and friendly president, perhaps. He could have shivvied that divide deeper, he could have used that Executive Power that numb nuts had, and forced through all the changes that, in all actuality, need(ed) to be made. But he didn't. What did he do? By god, he tried to do it through the normal channels and all that.

But the fact still remains, thanks to Fox Noise and Sarah Palin, we're still divided. They're forcing it, when the Powers are trying to rejoin us. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Circa the Civil War, perhaps? We have been at such a point in our nations history - the threat of secession. The reasons are, in essence, different, but the fact remains the same.

It is reported that the Queen wanted the states divided, for whatever reasons (Mostly trading with the South [cotton and the like] as I recall), but including the fact that a divided United States would be easier to topple. It would be a pair of ogre's instead of a giant. (It is said that, one of the Japanese generals upon the bombing of Pearl Harbor stated that they had just woken a sleeping giant.) And it will be.

While I'm the first to admit, I take my fair share of pot shots at Republicans and anyone who clings to their God and Ignorance before knowledge, I also understand - we need to be groovy and cool and chill and agree to disagree and not go head-to-head. Take your churches and your people riding dinosaurs, whatever you want. I'll continue to sit back and giggle at the silliness of your superstitions, but that's just the way I am. I won't think less of you, per se.

But, back to the point. When those planes were dropped, I wonder if this was part of the intentions. A half-intelligent, imbecile of a president would undoubtedly do what W did, and maybe "they" saw that, they knew it from the get. Maybe there intentions were to, indeed, expose that chasm in our culture and drive us apart. Or maybe it was an unexpected bonus for them. Maybe they didn't think it would topple the way it did. I don't know, I'm not going to try and speculate on Saudi Arabian terr'rists ideology, but the fact still remains - we are where we are, in these Red States and Blue States because of it, at least in part.

I know, there's always been that division, but it was relaxed and groovy, it was dislike not venom-spitting contempt. Though, as we know from the Sixties, war has become a way to polarize this nation. The Hippies vs. The Squares, in a way. Same shit, forty years later only with vague difference. History is destined to repeat itself, isn't it? If only, as a species, we could retain that history and study it and learn from it, to progress in our understanding of existence. Novel idea, and it certainly hasn't been tried yet.

The sad thing is, we're knee-deep in the debris of the Fall of the New Roman Empire. Let's just hope we can clear it up before we suffocate in it. Before we drown in the hatred of our fathers and grandfathers.

Most of it, maybe is generational and nurture vs. nature... Our parents are what make up most of the Republican Voting Base, but they have sunk their claws into this generation and those below us in a volatile way. The children today - well, the children today is a subject for another day, but I feel very sorry for the generations after mine. They will not remember a time when it was relaxed and groovy, without the dividing lines in the sand. They won't remember a time before the Orwellian Patriot Act, but I suppose that, that is neither here nor there.

Just think about it... United we stand, divided we fall.