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June 08, 2004
The Big Sleep
Ronald Reagan is the man who destroyed America's sense of reality -- a paltry target, all in all, given our predilections. It only took an actor: the real successor to John Wilkes Booth. In our bones, we had always been this sort of bullshit-craving country anyhow, founded on abstractions: not land (somebody else's), not people (Red Rover, Red Rover, send Emma Lazarus right over), not even shared history (nostalgia isn't the same thing, and try pulling that Civil War Shinola anywhere west of the Rio Grande). Just monumental words and wordy monuments, with two convenient oceans between them and circumstance; from Nat Turner's status as three-fifths of a man -- even though we ended up hanging all of him -- to Reagan's child Lynndie England (b. 1983, the year we invaded Grenada and lost 241 Marines in Lebanon), any shortfall could be blamed on something lost in translation. But it was Reagan, whose most profound Freudian slip was the immortal "Facts are stupid things," who beguiled us into living in the theme park full-time, and so much for the Declaration of Independence's prattle about "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind" -- actually the only time we ever expressed much concern for those. Since his 1980 opponent, Jimmy Carter, was about the sorriest embodiment of the reality principle imaginable -- Three's Company's Mr. Roper on the world-historical stage -- facts didn't have a prayer.
Ronald Reagan, 1911–2004
Posted by nothingistrue at June 8, 2004 03:34 PM
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I think maybe you should keep your stupid opinions to your self and if you dont have anything nice to say, Please dont say nothing at all. Ronald Regan was a good man and served his country well. More than I could say for you.
Obvously your not and never will be capable of being a president. So RESPECT RESPECT RESPECT!!!
Dont hate! If you dont like the way things go in our country then GET THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yours Truley
Posted by: victoria at June 9, 2004 01:00 PM
riiiiight... don't leave my opinion on my personal weblog... you've got quite a mouth on you for someone that demands people are treated with respect. When you get out of high school, you may put that gray thing in your head called a brain to use and learn how to think for yourself.
Next!
Posted by: jeremy at June 9, 2004 02:30 PM
I agree with Jeremy. THIS IS HIS PERSONAL WEBLOG! Freedom of expression is a powerful and important tool of democracy. It allows you to make your own personal analysis of the world around you.
So Victoria, it is your right to post on HIS log and say whatever you feel, but keep in mind that it is important to have different opinions. It is fine to have constructive criticism. to tell someone to get the fuck out for different opinions is stupid and not very educated of you. America should be a place that allows people to live and disagree on political issues..
To Reagan and his living this planet behind. Death is a sad thing that will happen to all of us and I hope that people have something nice to say about me..
Well, I am a liberal and very political person. Reagan was hardcore republican so all I can say is that I didn't agree with a his politics.
Anyways, let's move on and try to focus on positive and peaceful world politics for once in the future!!!
b.d.
Posted by: Bede at June 10, 2004 08:49 PM
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