THOUGHTDOM
THOUGHTDOM
You’re creating a lot lately. Wonder what kind of thoughts are oozing around in your brain. I’m thought-dumb. You’re in thoughtdom.
“So, you aren’t thinking?”
I try not to. I’m trying to keep low mileage on the brain in case I try to resell it. Too much thought causes wrinkles.
“Yes, I have punctuation between my eyes. Quote marks. I think G. Bush has a question mark on his head.”
He has a smirk mark on his mouth.
“Oh, I know, he smirks. Makes me want to hold his lips and make him tell truth.”
He always has a look like, “I can’t believe they’re buying this.” And his wife, Laura looks like a sated weasel.
“Oh boy, funny how we relish these personal attacks. I was astonished by the viciousness I witnessed against the Clintons in the 90s. In the 90s there was all this aggression coming from Rush Limbaugh, and that was all we heard. But now it’s now, and the Clintons and Bushes are the corporate establishment, and I’m vicious towards both. And now there’s also this loud liberal counterattack.”
Liberal? By who?
“Jon Stewart, bloggers. Even Hollywood. ‘Cept Stewart and Hollywood haven’t caught on to what the Dems be doing. And Hollywood’s got us segregated into little market niches. They still got those patriotic movies, but anything offbeat is liberal. We live in niche bubbles on the Web, too. I’m hard pressed to find reactionaries who produce cool writing or art on the Internet.
“I’ve also been thinking a lot about education. I think it’s a propaganda tool for the economic/political system. The system reinforces in-the-box thinking with its achievement tests. It’s the amniotic fluid for budding citizens. It’s where people are first exposed to authority, taught to follow directions. The basis for swallowing the reactionary line is to stay in the box, defer to authority, follow directions.
“But it’s not a perfect tool. People learn how to read in school, and then they have the power to free themselves by reading more books.
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