THE ANTI-FACTUAL BUSH UNIVERSE
"The lack of a political agenda of his own has liberated Mr. Cheney to devote himself to being a serious and deeply involved policy adviser to the president."
-today's Wall Street Journal
CORRECTION: should read, "The lack of a political agenda of his own has liberated Mr. Bush to devote himself to being a serious and deeply involved front man for the vice-president."
Tell me the world hasn't gone totally ass-backwards mad? To know that every word to come out of Washington these days is a part of much bigger lie...and that so much of what you read has to be put up in front kind of some cosmic mirror in order to get what's not being said (oh how I miss the days when all you had to do was read BETWEEN the lines)...is more than a cause for concern. It's terrifying. And to see most media outlets on board makes me wonder what has to happen for the truth to come back into fashion. Today, those who are not in truth's back pocket are on it's leash.
Physicists talk of parallel universes and that for every bit of matter there is a bit of anti-matter. With this administration, every fact gets been put through the Rove-Cheney truth-machine and comes back out as anti-fact. I'm no physicist, not even a political scientist, but what if that for every truth there is a lie and that for some unknown reason we have slipped into that godforsaken, anti-truth universe? Sounds silly? Everything sounds silly the first time you hear it.
photo©Edward Keating 2002: EK self portrait, in mirror, Flagstaff, AZ
"The lack of a political agenda of his own has liberated Mr. Cheney to devote himself to being a serious and deeply involved policy adviser to the president."-today's Wall Street Journal
CORRECTION: should read, "The lack of a political agenda of his own has liberated Mr. Bush to devote himself to being a serious and deeply involved front man for the vice-president."
Tell me the world hasn't gone totally ass-backwards mad? To know that every word to come out of Washington these days is a part of much bigger lie...and that so much of what you read has to be put up in front kind of some cosmic mirror in order to get what's not being said (oh how I miss the days when all you had to do was read BETWEEN the lines)...is more than a cause for concern. It's terrifying. And to see most media outlets on board makes me wonder what has to happen for the truth to come back into fashion. Today, those who are not in truth's back pocket are on it's leash.
Physicists talk of parallel universes and that for every bit of matter there is a bit of anti-matter. With this administration, every fact gets been put through the Rove-Cheney truth-machine and comes back out as anti-fact. I'm no physicist, not even a political scientist, but what if that for every truth there is a lie and that for some unknown reason we have slipped into that godforsaken, anti-truth universe? Sounds silly? Everything sounds silly the first time you hear it.
photo©Edward Keating 2002: EK self portrait, in mirror, Flagstaff, AZ
posted by Edward Keating at 12:12 PM
1 Comments:
"The lack of a political agenda of his own has liberated Mr. Bush to devote himself to being a serious and deeply involved front man for the vice-president."
So simply stated, so horrifyingly true.
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