roachboy

amazing photo, host.
and it's monday still.

commentary section:

when the notion of the "fjnords" were developed in the context of the illuminatus trilogy, you might have thought that robert anton wilson was joking. but no. there they are.
funny, isn't it?

and so it is that we see the underbelly of conservativeland--fraud and repetition.

i am sure that you will get a version of the "a few bad apples" line to explain the phonecalls....and as for the repetition of the organizing signifiers--vote democrat and vote for terrorism--well, what is there really to be said? it is obvious, it has been obvious for 5 years--and now there we are, explicit.

conservativeland is the giant themepark that fear built.
from which it follows that the most efficient and envied of terrorists run the conservative media apparatus.
they are like the alarm salesmen whose market share presupposes the fear that their systems are meant to counteract, whose systems generate the fear they are supposed to allay. the obsession with security generates anxieties symmetrical with it.
of course this is a "soft" terrorism in that it destroys no buildings and leaves no bruises.
but if the notion of terrorism is built around the use of fear inflicted on a population for political ends--and it is--then i dont know what else to call this kind of vote democrat-vote terrorist kinda thing.

in conservativeland, it appears that the demographic is understood as cattle to be directed through the appropriate chutes via little electrical charges.
i would think the folk on the right would be offended by this--not by the observation of it, but by the assumption that this kind of herding is being applied to them.
but maybe not. maybe they like it. who knows?

the real problem for the right this kind of thing raises is of a different order:
you reveal the device too often and it ceases to function.

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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

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