A Grandchild's Curse

One of Fox's stable of News Blondies has compared Obama's pastor to Hitler. Comparing people to Hitler is too easy. I know. I have done it myself. Very simple. The problem with comparing people to Hitler is, as I have mentioned before, that one does not see what's going on right now. As we spend our time trying to fit the present into analogous situations from the past, we pay absolutely no attention to the symbols we ourselves are now creating and which our grandchildren will use to vilify their compeers. In the future, our grandchildren will curse us. That goes without saying. Since we have had a Consumer culture, we shall pass nothing of substance to them: we shall have consumed it. Get it? Does it finally come clear to you idiots that what distinguish our generation of vipers from other generations is that, whereas others toiled and saved and passed wealth to us, we cheated, lied, and consumed and threw wealth away in misbegotten wars, thereby destroying the wealth. Get it? To consume well is to use value to create more, such as consuming bread to energize oneself to work, art, or play. We just consume. We create obese icons which we look at in news reports and cable tv: icons of pointless consumption, consumption that leads to nothing. The grandchildren will receive the deficit to pay off. So they shall have the BUSH deficit, a history of insufficient investment in the country: poor infrastructure, inadequate health care, education too costly for most people.... Judgement Day is not Skynet and his robotic minions taking over; it us we ourselves destroying what our fathers have built. Our grandkids will say some egregious fool they know is a "Bush". They will curse a foppish, self-important person who prattles about peace, yet does nothing to secure it, as a "Condi". They will refer with disgust to the greedy and amoral badger type personality who shuns the light of day as a "Cheney". The truly foolish will be called "Kristol" and " Feith" and "Wolfowitz". Let us try and save something for our descendents. Let us try and restore some sense of decency to our own souls. Ask for the resignation of Bush and all his conspirators.