Absurdity Piled Upon Absurdity ...

.. and yet truer words may never have been written.

Joe Bageant on free beer, free speech zones, neutered liberals and reason.

In the Reign of the One-nutted King

Janked rats cried for blood and the prosthetic hand of love waved good-bye to reason

By Joe Bageant

Not long ago protesting Danish construction workers won a historic victory against workplace tyranny -- they retained their company sponsored on-the-job beer breaks. Heartless employers being what they are, had asked workers to pay half the cost of the beer. Oppression is ever boundless.

About that same time last fall a couple hundred American protesters gathered in a Washington D.C. parking lot. Chronic liberal malcontents, they had the gall to ask why our government was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of abysmally ordinary folks in Iraq, people moreover like themselves who, even under Saddam Hussein, whose reign was so infamously marked by his penchant for black velvet paintings and the most sordid kinds of torture, nevertheless managed to do what most comkon folks in the world do -- send the kids off to school every morning, cursed Baghdad's traffic, and perhaps a little fudged on their taxes. So why are they being wiped out at great public expense, and for no apparent reason?

This being a free republic, the American protesters stood in the parking lot, packed buttock to belly button inside one of our fatherland's designated Free Speech Zones, a bad case of branding if ever there was one, and though they are no longer called that, the function is still the same.

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Anyway, the reason liberals are sucker bait for every wedge the Republican think tanks can hand them is because liberals, like every other American, are conditioned to compete against each other -- even fellow liberals.

In a monetized rat race society (best called The Company) that continually pits its citizens/workers against one another in a toxic winner take all rat race for quality education, health care, employment, crime free neighborhoods, and political attention of any sort, then dubs it mere "competition," as if it were a happy game of badminton, EVERYBODY rich or poor feels existentially threatened. Republican capitalists feel threatened that liberal humanism might empower workers, which it would, if anybody bothered to practice it. The gay man fears the common homophobe, as if that dumb bastard has any more power than he does. So he grabs the bullhorn at the Gay Pride rally and publicly denounces the homophobe -- who really couldn't give a shit and won't hear the denunciation anyway -- never confronting the real enemy because, like the homophobe, he has been conditioned to combative personal response toward the guy down the street, instead of reason. CBS Sixty Minutes covers his "issue, fifteen minutes a year, thereby validating it in a television managed state.

Divisive politics once again beats the snot out of reason.

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