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Entry: Reverend Ike, Margaret Sanger, or Ludendorff Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/reverend_ike_margaret_sanger_or_ludendorff#21680 Post contents: Until the populace, the lapsed-citizenry pull's it's spectator-addled head from it's couch-splayed arse and returns to some form of informed citizenship as a civic necessity, there will be no reversal to the ongoing slide. We could elect a cross between Washington, Teddy Roosevelt and whatever anointed President you care to recall and there would be no significant change because the President (despite these witless wanker's clutch at the Unitary Executive) is incapable of instigating the change that is now required. In other words, you cannot lead a horse to water and have it drink when said horse is actually a camel you are ignoring. The Republic is in remission because it's people have abdicated and slouched into a spectator-driven life instead of the discursive life required of an intelligently run Republic. The silenced schoolhouse and charming conceits of "No Child Left Behind"....(because, of course, no child will go forward) is Exhibit One in the Farrago. We are a nation of box-checkers, direction-followers, test- takers, banal conversationalists (aptly named small talk), bill-payers and earnest clappers whose major sport now is disaffection. This condition, in some quarters is called "ressentiment" and it takes a very long time to work it's tawdry way out. All of it, the Separation of Powers, the two houses of Congress, the States vs. Federal paradigm, the roll of an engaged public in the selection of representatives , the electoral college and delegate structure vs. population disparity......the communication of trade and capitalism with a small "c" with it's buyer and seller......all of it is a kind of organic response to the potentials of the human mind ensconced within a body of great facility...and furthermore enhanced by a spiritual sense. This requires discourse, a national conversation if you will and while some will assert that the ongoing campaigns are that conversation, they are patently wrong. This is a staged debate, formulaic, polled to the ultimate degree and stage-managed to a fair-thee-well. The most brazen idiocy and sordid affairs gain the greatest attention. We, this generation, is the greatest demonstration of the leaks in the "Intelligent Design" Parade Float. Seeing their nation plunge deeper into confusion , the public cannot see the forest for the trees because they refuse to discern the essential problem: We have replaced the authentic agora with a vicarious agora. Straw Men are the new Golden Calf. Religion, such as it is, joins in the slouch. Animus and suspicion prevails. Holy Writ is waved to justify war. Elect McCain, elect Obama, elect Hillary or a troop of professional acrobats or perhaps a chorus of sweetly barking frogs and the outcome will not be substantially different....in the big view...until the people recognize their problem for what it is. Doing so, the solution becomes self apparent. In other words, "that helping hand yer lookin fer is at the end of yer own dag blamed arm". We have a government we deserve, richly so and this government is not to blame for the ills that effect us, we are to blame. Whether one is atheist, agnostic, religious, east-west or otherwise, it would appear that the authors of the Book of Revelation were, if not prophetic, at the very least, serious students of human nature. Sent at: 2008 07 04