Feeling frazzled, foiled, helpless and
sick. I'm thinking maybe we'd be better off on our own, if all FEMA does is
stage,
stall, and
thwart relief.
Thinking about the hurricane on a grand scale, the almost identical timing to September 11 in Bush's second term impresses me. And then I remembered my previously unexpressed theory that this is the Administration of Instant Karma. Rig an election, get the world on your doorstep. Plant a reporter, get caught propagandizing.
Most of us feel that Bush used the deaths of thousands on 9/11 to invade an oil-rich country without much public outcry. Some others, myself included, feel that Bush was complicit in that tragedy, knowing people would let up their guard against government corruption along with suspending their disbelief at the actual events of the day.
But whether you find the source of your anger inductively, or deductively, Bush has exploited 9/11 for every last shred of American Patriotism, blinding otherwise good people into supporting this worthless, corrupt leader.
And now, with the death of thousands more in a symbolically similar event, that anger has been unleashed.
I had a good friend die, hugging his wife and 2 year old daughter as their plane smashed into the south tower, and a lot of times when pondering the tragedy I try to imagine what he would think. In the first weeks I felt he might say "It's even worse than it appears, but it's alright." I try not to use his story to further my political aims, not really knowing for sure his or his surviving parents' ideology, but I got a feeling now that he, and and those like me whose fury has been pent up with a nationally passive audience, are now at rest.
In the Taoist tradition of cycles, this one has come full circle. My heart aches for the victims of the flood, but ironically, it's their deaths that might save the rest of us from this madman at the helm.
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While I was writing this, another diary appeared, astonishingly named Instant Karma Afraid that the same point had been made, I pulled mine. I decided in the end that my diary was unique, but it does say something about the Zeitgeist of the Collective Consciousness.
