Revelations on Government and Piracy
Unless you have never read anything I have ever written before, or have never spoken to me about politics, you already know that I am unsatisified with the job President Bush is doing. The world holds the United States to a higher standard because we are the most powerful country in the world. Thus, we hold our president to a higher standard. It isn't just me, let us not forget that Clinton was practically burned at the stake for being a man. Bush on the other hand has, to the best of our knowledge kept it in his pants, but he makes up for it by acting like an idiot monkey at every turn. But people change...
Earlier this week I was looking at a picture that the Voyager probe took from its vantage point outside of our solar system looking back at Earth. At that distance the Earth was less than a pixil across, but by some amazing stroke of luck it managed to capture us, "A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam". I am not quoting Carl Sagan exactly but I mean to. Go here to see the image and the article about it. In case you aren't into clicking links I want to quote a part of Dr. Sagan's speech because it is an amazing revelation.
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam."
Maybe it was this. Maybe it was the fact that I watched Dead Man's Chest last night. Maybe it was the box of Bojangles chicken I ate before bed. For whatever reason, last night I dreamed that I was standing in Center City Park listening to people talking about politics and war (these topics are inseparable). Then I flew, I just rose above the park, the city, the county, the state, the country, the continent, the earth. I stood there in space above our little blue world and I realized that America isn't the largest or the most powerful country in the history of man. In the entire history of man the greatest human ever was still just a human. I realized that Bush isn't a really bad president of the greatest country ever, he is an amazing Pirate King, leading a country founded on revolution, built by broken promises, and fueled by priacy. We are not a rogue nation, we are a nation of rogues, and the king of all rogues leads us.
I awoke a changed man. My approval rating of Bush grew seven sizes that day.
