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until i see real consistency coming from the right on the question of the veneration of life--which would include opposition to war and calls for social/economic justice in the world that those of us who are alive have to operate, i will not see in actions like those which surround this sad, sad case anything like a principled stand. that is, once the american right manages to catch up pope john paul 2--who, as much as i detest his politics, is at least consistent.
i wonder about the correlation between the conservative agitation on this matter and the nature of the coverage on fox news of the matter. it seems that roger ailes holds the toggle switch--when he flips it on, the right reacts.
this is an exploitative, brutal, horrific political stunt mounted by the right at the expense of people who seem for some reason to see in being exploited for political ends a type of therapy.
i feel badly for all parties involved. for some reason, i feel particularly badly for schiavo's parents. who obviously are terrified of death, who obviously cannot let go. in a way, it looks like their inability to let go has driven them into a public and grotesque version of kafka's story "the hunger artist"
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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