Why So Dark?

Why do the actions of all the major players on the American political scene result in resonant chaos in the world? There are many ways to get rich that don't. I think that's a good question.



[thanks again to MJS]

The rationalization of War and Empire's become institutional. The American ENterprise Institute is an example of a think tank that exists to formulate elaborate plans and policies to justify Empire. They justify all the death and destruction they- according to Dear Leader over 200 members of the AEI are in the Bu$h administration- cause with visions to the main$tream of a thousand points of lights.

Jeff Wells said this:

I'm reminded, constantly, of the two-year old remark by the anonymous State Department official: "I just wake up in the morning and tell myself, 'There's been a military coup,' and then it all makes sense."

If only it were that simple, and modestly malevolent. That used to make sense of this world for me, too. Now, it doesn't make enough sense. Now, I'm waking with the crazy notion, "There's been a coup by esoteric Nazis, and it didn't happen yesterday." Or perhaps I'm not truly awake yet. Could be. Hope so. Because my inner life has taken on the complexion of a lucid nightmare.

In other words, what's a poor blogger to do, when Hellboy begins to appear more "reality-based" than Wolf Blitzer Reports...?

Jeff Wells frequents the fantastic, striving to link what he calls the "military-occult complex". But there's no need to go beyond the reality-based in search for motivations for empires: the trillion dollars or so we've thrown at the Iraqi war is sufficient motivation for intrigue. What I value Wells for is antennae for the irregular even if he does tend to see things that go bump in the night.

Because sometimes there really are wolves beyond the edge of the campfire.

Billions of dollars for no-bid contracts and no oversight provide a heady aroma drawing predators of all sorts.