tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post115097888878276613..comments2023-09-26T02:09:58.787+10:00Comments on diogenesian discourse: Benjamin Franklin...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1151653558955195382006-06-30T17:45:00.000+10:002006-06-30T17:45:00.000+10:00Ok, that was a bit of a conversation stopper... :...Ok, that was a bit of a conversation stopper... :-)<BR/><BR/>What did I mean about "taking America down" or "sorting America out"? (I'm sure the CIA and ASIO are already here hanging on my every word... :-)<BR/><BR/>I meant this: Sidelining America politically and economically until they indicate to the rest of the world that they would be happy to rejoin the global community as a humble equal and not as the tyrant of the world.<BR/> <BR/>America seems to be behaving like a brat with ADHD and should be treated this way. Starting with putting Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld and Cheney on very high doses of Ritilin.<BR/><BR/>There... Alles klaar, Herr Kommissar?<BR/><BR/>Now bugger off, ya spook misfits!The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1151003377295232492006-06-23T05:09:00.000+10:002006-06-23T05:09:00.000+10:00Yeah, I wish we had more historians like Gore Vida...Yeah, I wish we had more historians like Gore Vidal.<BR/><BR/>I wonder how history will be written in this new age of Total Information Management.<BR/><BR/>I think we have entered the most corrupt period in the world's history, but because it puts bread (and bling bling) on people's tables, we won't look too hard at what's wrong with it or how to change it.<BR/><BR/>I think we will be entering the next Dark Ages if we don't take America down. <BR/><BR/>Sorry Greenie, but I blame the American people, and therefore it's educators and social commentators, for the fact that America now seems incapable of sorting itself out and that it will therefore fall to the rest of the world to sort America out.<BR/><BR/>We here in Australia are too sycophantic towards America to take an assertive position in any of this. Isn't it funny how control-freaks and bullies tend to breed sycophants?The Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03884172849865230486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1150988695278539102006-06-23T01:04:00.000+10:002006-06-23T01:04:00.000+10:00I find it interesting that this quote, one of the ...I find it interesting that this quote, one of the most mature and insightful in american political history and from one of my most revered sages, had never come to my attention before you put it up here.<BR/><BR/>Better go get me a Gore Vidal book of quotes.GreenSmilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126239521640810895noreply@blogger.com