8bitagent wrote:I've been joining in on comments and forum posts by raw raw people loving this bin laden death,
saying "Cool. Now can we go after those who finance and support bin Laden?" Oh but Im a conspiracy theorist in their eyes for daring to allege
bin Laden has been a puppet all this time of the elite.
Yes. That appears to be ultimately the set-up.
I cringe, wince, whatever any time anything comes down to a singular human entity as enemy or hero. I don't think it's even because I read 1984 at the age of 10 or so. Singular entities cannot conduct mass civilizational evil on their own. Singular entities can however change the mood and briefly tug the EQ of society into a direction more befitting of an educated and open minded populace, thus creating more liminal brainpower on issues that affect ethics and commonsense. Upton Sinclair, for instance, comes to mind.
This belies the aspect that the USA's most popular sport is American football. It is the only sport with a singular leader. The QB. He's always in the pocket, needs "protection", must make snap decisions. He's always the one with the special rules preventing him from meeting with harm. And they're always fucking rightwing assholes off the field. QBs are focused on as above and beyond the team itself. Whereas in any other sport the team plays as a singular entity. Football is personal but experienced vicariously and from afar. American wars are personal and also experience vicariously and from afar.