i'm so freaking sick and tired of hearing about this non-controversy over the damn da vinci code movie. it's such a ploy to keep people away from what's really going on out there. the christofascists are going to agitate, so we should ignore them. if i see one more "news" story about this non-event, i'm going to scream.
even something that should ostensibly be serious, like immigration, has turned into this giant dog-and-pony show to keep our minds off war dead and wiretapping. why do we put up with this stuff?
the whole strategy of this administration, since day one, has been to shout "hey, look, i'm doing something distracting!" while something awful is going on right behind them. are we going to stand by and let this happen right in front of us?
all this talk about a "war on christianity" and the brown menace have made people almost completely forget that kids die in iraq every day. god only knows what they're going to do in iran, if they're not already doing it. and what about this divine strake thing? 700 tons of explosives under the desert - what could they be planning that they need to test something like that?
we are all a little complicit in this. everyone needs to take a break from the struggle now and then. we watch adult swim in our house to take the edge off. but so many people just lose themselves in the puppet show that the bushcorp folks put on for us, with big fake controversies that keep us pumped up with misplaced outrage. most people just don't have time to get active and do something about the real problems.
myabe that's what they meant by "mission accomplished."