> The Bush Hoards: Who voted for him in ’04..and WHY
21 June 2006, 23:31
You know, it may be very cathartic and all to spew like that, but the truth is a bit more subtle and insidious. That "Classic Right Wing Responses" article got a bit closer to one critical part of it: A lot of the people involved aren’t categorically brain dead, and don’t engage in all these exaggerated caricatured practices or display all these obvious bizarre characteristics that help those who are sure they are better to get off on the idea of such people’s eventual fatal comeuppance. But they have bought into a few skillfully designed and targeted memes, and sometimes that’s all it takes. One of those memes involves dehumanizing an easy-to-hate enemy, and convincing a population that one-upping each other in unqualified hate and exaggerated caricature shows their virtue and their coolness, while the subtle inaccuracies in the hate-porn imagery that makes it feel so good and right is just a ridiculous and contemptible affectation for cowards and fools who don’t get it. And they will vie to one-up each other in going the opposite way. And when that escalates enough, it can be transferred to new enemies, and it will matter less and less who those enemies are, and who gets lumped together with them, because logic will not be a welcome guest in that part of the hate orgy. For Americans the big catalytic epitome of evil was Hitler and the Nazis; subtleties and exceptions in considering hate and revenge against them and those who were guilty by association with them was just disgusting. And thus it was that each ever-so-noble-and-necessary American crusade up to the current and likely future ones had to be compared to WWII, each new archenemy kingpin to Hitler, etc. For you, the big gotta-hate-even-more enemy Dumb Americans and Bush catalyst meme is selling quite successfully. All the more because in many ways Bush and the Dumb Americans really are a lot like Hitler and the Nazis, and some of the differences are hilariously/horribly in the Nazis’ favor. And people involved in this and subsequent phases of the transition to killing with glee or condoning it with glee won’t need any weird facial features, sexual practices, etc., to get with the program, but when they in turn become someone’s gotta-hate subhumans, they will surely be accused of having them anyway. Oh but no, you’re different, you’re smarter, it’s just that the ones you see that way really are that way, just that way, or close enough that only a prissy wimp or a closet sympathizer would quibble over the difference, quibble over the subtleties, call them human or distinguish which which among them is exactly how guilty of exactly what when they all gave up that right by.... Any idea how popular the old "the lot of them gave up the right to be considered human by..." is with the Americans now? But no; it’s different in your case, because it’s true, and... see how strong the meme is? Oh, and don’t be too sure you’re looking at arrested evolution here; this may be the direction evolution is headed in, and you may be part of the reason why. Got a snappy comeback for things like this when you hear them? Them Americans have....
You know, it may be very cathartic and all to spew like that, but the truth is a bit more subtle and insidious. That "Classic Right Wing Responses" article got a bit closer to one critical part of it: A lot of the people involved aren’t categorically brain dead, and don’t engage in all these exaggerated caricatured practices or display all these obvious bizarre characteristics that help those who are sure they are better to get off on the idea of such people’s eventual fatal comeuppance. But they have bought into a few skillfully designed and targeted memes, and sometimes that’s all it takes. One of those memes involves dehumanizing an easy-to-hate enemy, and convincing a population that one-upping each other in unqualified hate and exaggerated caricature shows their virtue and their coolness, while the subtle inaccuracies in the hate-porn imagery that makes it feel so good and right is just a ridiculous and contemptible affectation for cowards and fools who don’t get it. And they will vie to one-up each other in going the opposite way. And when that escalates enough, it can be transferred to new enemies, and it will matter less and less who those enemies are, and who gets lumped together with them, because logic will not be a welcome guest in that part of the hate orgy. For Americans the big catalytic epitome of evil was Hitler and the Nazis; subtleties and exceptions in considering hate and revenge against them and those who were guilty by association with them was just disgusting. And thus it was that each ever-so-noble-and-necessary American crusade up to the current and likely future ones had to be compared to WWII, each new archenemy kingpin to Hitler, etc. For you, the big gotta-hate-even-more enemy Dumb Americans and Bush catalyst meme is selling quite successfully. All the more because in many ways Bush and the Dumb Americans really are a lot like Hitler and the Nazis, and some of the differences are hilariously/horribly in the Nazis’ favor. And people involved in this and subsequent phases of the transition to killing with glee or condoning it with glee won’t need any weird facial features, sexual practices, etc., to get with the program, but when they in turn become someone’s gotta-hate subhumans, they will surely be accused of having them anyway. Oh but no, you’re different, you’re smarter, it’s just that the ones you see that way really are that way, just that way, or close enough that only a prissy wimp or a closet sympathizer would quibble over the difference, quibble over the subtleties, call them human or distinguish which which among them is exactly how guilty of exactly what when they all gave up that right by.... Any idea how popular the old "the lot of them gave up the right to be considered human by..." is with the Americans now? But no; it’s different in your case, because it’s true, and... see how strong the meme is? Oh, and don’t be too sure you’re looking at arrested evolution here; this may be the direction evolution is headed in, and you may be part of the reason why. Got a snappy comeback for things like this when you hear them? Them Americans have....