... by MillMan (4.00 / 1) #9 Sun Dec 30, 2007 at 11:30:25 PM EST
That's where my America comes from: my heart and a hundred years of people working their asses off to live in a land of promise and adventure that still shimmers somewhere under a layer of oil and money and blood too thick to penetrate.  Our brutality, often kept in check by our kindness, became out trademark, our way of life.

And you can either find a new way to live or suffer as you are for the rest of your life living a caricaturized version of the dysfunctional existence imbued in us as the progeny of the desperately poor and hungry Europeans that created this culture. Moving to another country won't do the work of changing that work/consume framework that is very much an integral part of what you (and I) are.

Go live abroad, though.

When I'm imprisoned as an enemy combatant, will you blog about it?


It is always a new way by blixco (2.00 / 0) #10 Sun Dec 30, 2007 at 11:46:42 PM EST
to live.  Each day brings a whole new set of rules.

Problem is, the rules now are arbitrary and foolish, even to those in power.
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"You bring the weasel, I'll bring the whiskey." - kellnerin
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