Oh my god. Is he still talking?
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This page is a direct response to each day's edition of Bill OReilly's 'Talking Points', whose transcripts are posted by FoxNews on their website. I'm pretty much done here. If you've discussed politics with me lately, you've probably heard me quote the Godfather: "they're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls." I've liked this line, for its viciousness, its complete dismissal, it's sincerity and economy ever since I first heard it, and now, I finally believe it. Let them teach intelligent design. Let them underfund their schools and turn legislatures into places of worship. Let them ban books and be ashamed and drive SUVs into the suburbs and snort oxycontin and underachieve and fear for their low-skill jobs. Let them forget how to read and get paranoid about terrorists and the Japanese and scientists and queers and let them try to vote themselves into the middle class and accept self-righteous superstition rather than improving their standard of living. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls. I'm quite comfortable. I have money and the liberty and independence that it implies, and I have books, a lot of nice art, a computer and a really nice television, a wife, a few friends, and frankly, the rest of these people can go fuck themselves. No man's an island, to be sure, but that doesn't mean I have to throw in with these assholes. I didn't start this page to save anyone, except me -- i began to prevent myself from punching strangers, for those of you who remember. And I no longer have this punching urge, not about Bill. I'm at peace, because I really, genuinely don't care about how people want to misuse their legal rights. So help yourselves. Have fun. Best of luck. Act like idiots. Get fooled. Kill each other. Worship anything you want. It's not worth the cost to me of my own concern anymore -- the stress, the anger, the time spent in discussion or consideration. So go on. Hate somebody for their race or religion. Misinterpret something. Allow yourself to be led down an erroneous line of reasoning. Ignore empirical fact. Lower taxes, and then close schools to make up for it. I've done what I can: voting, donating, talking, calling people, and it doesn't seem to help. My conscience is clean. From here on out, it's not a tragedy that needs solving, it's The Human Condition, it's man's inhumanity toward man, it's a funny little piece of theater of which I'm not a part. Check please. Long days and pleasant nights. posted by henry | 10:10 AM |
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