The Crow's Eye: dear know-nothing nativists

"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red

"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done

"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ

Feb 3, 2011

dear know-nothing nativists

Fox News is shit. When Sean Hannity spends his slot trying to convince you to fear the Muslim Brotherhood as some sort of incipient Islamic force poised to control all of the land of the Nile, it's because a change in Egypt - almost any change not managed by the US - is bad for the Permanent Aircraft Carrier At The End of the Mediterranean,* which is in itself bad for American Hegemony.

And that's what FOX and Sean Hannity serve. American Hegemony. Because it's good for business.

Grow up already, you fucking fucks.

* - Eretz Yisroel...

5 comments:

David K Wayne said...: "Fox News is shit".

I knew that before I even watched it.; February 3, 2011 at 4:04 AM
Jack Crow said...: Had to get it off my chest. That fucking shit hole is hard pimping the "MB Islamism Death of Israel" line. And its captive audience is buying it.; February 3, 2011 at 8:47 AM
David K Wayne said...: Vile as it is, it's hard to be surprised. I can smell an 'emergency briefing' at the weekend from Mr. Murdoch to his minions.

The whole 'party line' seems to have been rapidly agreed on - from Obama's doubletalk to Fox derangement. Last week western governments and media were left holding their dicks over these events.; February 3, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Jack Crow said...: Truth, Wayne. And they have coalesced around their collective response with rapidity: Islamism.

Predictable, as you say.

Whenever I hear "Islamism," now, I think "which Israeli or US/UK hegemonist is scared, and about what?"; February 3, 2011 at 9:34 AM
JM said...: Granted, the Muslim brotherhood has gotten conspiratorial in Turkey:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/ergenekon/; February 3, 2011 at 3:05 PM

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This one took a while to put into words.

I don't kid myself that I've stumbled upon a unique insight and I have little doubt that someone has already written or said this better than I. Five minutes after I hit the "publish" button, I'll probably regret the choice of words more than I already do now - because it's difficult to get my head outside of English language usage, to comment on a problem with that usage, whilst using the English language to do so.

In the interest of not making more of an ass of myself than necessary, I've pared a very long thesis down to a paragraph:

I find it troubling that, using English, I have very limited choice in expressing how I relate to people with whom I have ongoing interaction. If I want to reference the nature of my relations with the woman who has challenged me to grow in ways I never imagined possible, the woman who howled with a primal, gorgeous, earth shattering, mother bear of a refrain, transcending pain and pleasure in act of creation to which I will never be immediate party, who has with her defiant and proud womanhood still intact forged a family out of disparate parts - I have to write "my wife." I have to reduce her to property. That really pisses me off. I don't own her. I don't fucking want the title or the claim. I don't want to express possession, simply to refer to her (without writing a discursive dissertation). I don't like one bit that the short hand for "association" in English is expressed in the possessive. I don't own my wife or my children. They're not mine.

So, fuck you Latin and Germanic branches of the Indo-European language group.

That is all.