Saturday, June 28, 2003
Quotes from the corporatist dollarocrasy (as quoted in the New York Times)
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"Naturally, Republican politicians deny the existence of their burgeoning machine. "It never ceases to amaze me that people are so cynical they want to tie money to issues, money to bills, money to amendments," says Mr. DeLay. And Ari Fleischer says that "I think that the amount of money that candidates raise in our democracy is a reflection of the amount of support they have around the country."
If Mr. Delay and Mr. Fleischer believe their own words, which I doubt, they are very self-deluded.
"Money doesn't talk, it swears." Bob Dylan
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"Naturally, Republican politicians deny the existence of their burgeoning machine. "It never ceases to amaze me that people are so cynical they want to tie money to issues, money to bills, money to amendments," says Mr. DeLay. And Ari Fleischer says that "I think that the amount of money that candidates raise in our democracy is a reflection of the amount of support they have around the country."
If Mr. Delay and Mr. Fleischer believe their own words, which I doubt, they are very self-deluded.
"Money doesn't talk, it swears." Bob Dylan
I have created a word: Deipathy, Deipath, Deipathic.
I had intended to develop the idea in a book or at least a
blog of it's own.
In fact Deipathy was going to be my first blog.
But I am so mentally disorganized and lazy, overworked,
whatever, I've decided to grow the idea here, in bits and
fragments.
Otherwise I might never get it done.
The phenomenon is so apparent I don't know why it didn't
have a name already. So here it is:
Deipathy: the doing of evil in the name of God.
Of course the modern epitome of the Deipath is Osama bin
Laden, who invokes the name of God as he orchestrates
the murder of innocents.
Osama defiles the name of God when he uses it.
But I also ascribe deipathic overtones to a George Bush
who also invokes the name of God as he rains missiles
and other violence on the Iraqis in efforts to control the
Iraqi oil for his immodest cronies. Between 5,000 and
7,000 Iraqi civilians have died in our war.
The Olympic bomber and Timothy McVay, to the extent that they
invoke God in their own minds as a justification of their actions
are deipaths.
One can stretch the concept of God.
For instance, so called environmental extremists who deify
Nature, (as I myself might be accused of doing)
but then commit acts of violence in the name of Nature, are deipathic.
When a person with anger in his heart invokes the name of God,
know that innocent people will suffer or die.
"The name that can be named
Is not the constant name." Lao Tse
I had intended to develop the idea in a book or at least a
blog of it's own.
In fact Deipathy was going to be my first blog.
But I am so mentally disorganized and lazy, overworked,
whatever, I've decided to grow the idea here, in bits and
fragments.
Otherwise I might never get it done.
The phenomenon is so apparent I don't know why it didn't
have a name already. So here it is:
Deipathy: the doing of evil in the name of God.
Of course the modern epitome of the Deipath is Osama bin
Laden, who invokes the name of God as he orchestrates
the murder of innocents.
Osama defiles the name of God when he uses it.
But I also ascribe deipathic overtones to a George Bush
who also invokes the name of God as he rains missiles
and other violence on the Iraqis in efforts to control the
Iraqi oil for his immodest cronies. Between 5,000 and
7,000 Iraqi civilians have died in our war.
The Olympic bomber and Timothy McVay, to the extent that they
invoke God in their own minds as a justification of their actions
are deipaths.
One can stretch the concept of God.
For instance, so called environmental extremists who deify
Nature, (as I myself might be accused of doing)
but then commit acts of violence in the name of Nature, are deipathic.
When a person with anger in his heart invokes the name of God,
know that innocent people will suffer or die.
"The name that can be named
Is not the constant name." Lao Tse
