So uninspired

“Specializations and markings of individuals everywhere abound in such profusion that major idiosyncracies can be properly ascribed to the mass. Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

“There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

“Forward!”

Our favorite neighborhood specter of the spectacle observed recently, “I am ‘the enemy’.” He’s right. Besides being an Atheist, it’s not like I have to worry about being oppressed or anything. Yet I can’t help be less than fucking inspired with this clusterfuck on Capitol Hill….observe:

Via Think Progress:Feingold to introduce censure resolutions against Bush.

Reaction?

Shorter Harry Reid:

Sure, Bush is the worst President evar, ya, but he doesn’t deserve censure.

I’m guessing Harry Reid and the gang haven’t seen that last clip…

Navyswan asks us, “What would it take in this country for someone to truly stand up and do whatever it takes to get their message heard and to recruit people to their movement?” I say it doesn’t matter what anyone says. The era of mass movements is over–just like the concept of the album. I wish I could say otherwise, but political consciousness is all but dead in the country. Yes we had a slight reawakening, the periodic rise from the everyday stumbling stupor, in 06′. The fat, arrogant, self absorbed zombie masses–due to some reoccurring glitch in the matrix–actually made it into the voting booths at a rate a couple of percentage points higher than usual.

Big deal.

The people learned their lesson when the leaders of yesterday were struck down. Everyone knows who I’m talking about. And now, even their memory can’t sustain us.

See also: “This is America. This is one big Think-Free Zone over here.”