Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?

[violentkitten]

oh good you are getting mad now. i like it when you get angry. you tend to do really dumb then

[Nbadan]

oh good you are getting mad now. i like it when you get angry. you tend to do really dumb then

nah, not angry, just absorbing the last few statements made by the narrorator of the do entary...

This story began over 30 years ago as the dream that politics could create a better world began to fall apart. Out of that collapse came two groups: the Islamists and the neoconservatives. Looking back, we can now see that these groups were the last political idealists who, in an age of growing disillusion, tried to reassert the inspirational power of political visions that would give meaning to people’s lives, but both have failed in their attempts to transform the world and, instead, together they have created today’s strange fantasy of fear which politicians have seized on. Because in an age when all the grand ideas have lost credibility, fear of a phantom enemy is all the politicians have left to maintain their power.

and...

In a society that believes in nothing, fear becomes the only agenda. Whilst the 20th century was dominated between a conflict between a free-market Right and a socialist Left, even though both of those outlooks had their limitations and their problems, at least they believed in something, whereas what we are seeing now is a society that believes in nothing. And a society that believes in nothing is particularly frightened by people who believe in anything, and, therefore, we label those people as fundamentalists or fanatics, and they have much greater purchase in terms of the fear that they instill in society than they truly deserve. But that’s a measure of how much we have become isolated and atomised rather than of their inherent strength.

But the fear will not last, and just as the dreams that politicians once promised turned out to be illusions, so, too, will the nightmares, and then our politicians will have to face the fact that they have no visions, either good or bad, to offer us any longer.

NICE!

[violentkitten]

poor bas

[Nbadan]

poor bas

Hey, I'm not the one who had to compete for his mothers .

[violentkitten]

you have a fetish for your moms s thats sick

[Yonivore]

You know, one side of that conversation was funnier than if I'd seen both sides.