| February
20, 2003
Sometimes
I wonder about this country we live in. Are Americans the most gullible
people in the world? Are we the most paranoid? Why are we such complete
suckers? Perhaps this is what you get when your society treats intelligence
like a social disease. We're so edgy, so scared from what happened
to us and what may happen again, so willing to blindly accept everything
our leaders sell us. And we're being played for suckers and chumps.
Don't believe me? My case in point can be summed up in two words:
duct tape.
The
Bush Administration, never tiring of issuing their vague "terrorist
warnings," abruptly decided to move their color-coded terrorist
threat level to "Code Orange." We were never given a reason
why, not that we were ever given reasons in the past. You just have
to trust us, they say. We have every good reason to believe that
somehow, somewhere, something bad may or may not happen. We just
can't tell you why we know, or how we figured this out. You just
have to trust us.
Six
weeks later, it will leak out that it was all a fraud, but the dumb
proles never bother to read newspapers, so they never find out.
Reading is for geeks and losers. The popular kids watch Fear
Factor and buy duct tape, because, uh, um, it's what you're
supposed to do. |
