Blood Sport, Apathy, and Lust
Saturday, September 27th, 2008I did not watch the presidential debate which took place on national television tonight. Informative and insightful as it had the potential to be, I just could not bring myself to allow my attention to be ripped away from other important matters. Such as the fact that I find myself being more and more torn between continuing a freelance career and just doing what I think I’m good at and hoping someone foots the bill for it, or biting the bullet and continuing to apply for jobs that I lack the experience to be competitive in attaining. But none of this has anything to do with the fact that McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden went without my support tonight. Yes I could not bring myself to watch Obama attempt to reason with a political brute. McCain/Palin are political animals and they’re scared. In the next few weeks I’m sure we can expect to see them lash out in fright and terror in as many attacks as they can think of, all the time with that sense of smugness which comes from a life of always getting whatever it is you want. Some people will bring up the McCain POW experience to let me know that he has a sense of what it’s like to exist in adverse situations. Sure, and Governor Palin as well probably has some stories about… I don’t know getting attacked by wild moose or something. The fact of the matter is they really don’t know what it’s like to suffer unheroic, day to day, rambling, brutal, soulless, monotony, and hand-to-mouth subsistence which is the hallmark of the average American these days. Oh, “these days.” There I go sounding like an old man before my time. However, with the massive changes that our culture has gone through while I was growing up, I think I’m allowed a little use of the terms which have come to represent the cantankerous old man forced to live in a world he only read about in comic books, made real, by which I mean to say, made horribly boring by reality. People can now communicate at the speed of light from almost any point on the planet to any other point on the planet. Why then, is John McCain unable to run his campaign at the same time as he attends a vote in Washington, the first in a while for the venerable old maverick? No, this obvious failed attempt at a political grand stand play will be quickly forgotten. And so much the better. The last thing we need during an economic crisis is some jackass with a head full of bad wiring from being tampered with in some POW camp getting in there and patching things up just long enough to send another couple of thousand American men and women off to die in some god-forsaken patch of desert that happens to have some oil under it, and some unfriendly people on top of it.
