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Good morning Z,

I agree - that roast video was disgusting. Without applying a label to the old power paradigm that may be wrong, whatever it is, Obama seems to fit right in. Obama's popularity, in my estimation, has less to do with him as a candidate than it does with the dissatisfaction of the American people with their culture, politics, and economy. It has all gone to shxt - our teenagers are out killing each other on the streets like the "greens" and "blues" at Justinian's Hippodrome, our politicians no longer hide their contempt for us (i.e., Joe Sixpack), all while our property values and legal tender lose what has always been pretended worth. Quite frankly, the Democrats could have put their donkey up for the nomination, and McCain would still be fighting in Florida. Obama is to the United States what Valerian was to the Roman empire - we will have to wait and see. I suspect, since Obama has not come out in opposition to the great lie of terrorism and has promised troop increases in Afghanistan, Obama will figuratively share Valerian's fate as well.

This leads me to an important question about McCain: if "we," and I use that term loosely, are operating off of an old script, dancing on cue for the Machiavellian producers of this tragedy, would not the election of McCain represent improvisation? McCain is not ideologically wedded to the loons on the right or left. Think about it. If this has all been planned in advance, all the terrible stuff we see today is merely orchestration on the part of the nefarious, then someone eight years ago probably hypothosized that the 2008 election would go terribly bad for Republicans. Is that why McCain was allowed to get the Republican nomination? As a final kick in the rear by the Bush cabal - "give it to him, the old ******* will just lose anyway." I can hear those words leaving Karl Rove's mouth. Obama, then, represents the script - the peaceful transfer of power takes place right on cue. And Obama gets elected, mind you, he will have a majority in both houses of Congress - unlimited power served up on a platter. McCain has not exactly been the greatest human being alive - years in a Vietnamese POW camp didn't help him brush up on his respect for women or realize the futility of war. But something tells me he is as much an outsider as one can be after decades in Congress.

It is natural to question one's sanity when dealing with these topics Zynox, especially when every human being you come in contact with every single day of your life refuses to even entertain that there MIGHT be script. Even the hypothetical consideration can be jarring for most. And when you do find another air breather in the flesh to speak with about it all, those encounters are few and far between. Sometimes I envy those who are still asleep. However, no matter how much scorn or disinterest is heaped upon us by our friends and family, the coming times, I tend to believe, will do more to wake them up than anything we could ever say - any video on youtube or any declassified document on the FOIA database. The challenge for us will be, when they do wake up, to fight the "I told you so" response we have been programmed to give, and instead ask them, "where do we go from here?"

The manipulation of sexuality is old hat - it is just one of the many issues thrown at us to keep us sqabbling and distracted from what is really important. It happens on the left and the right. The extreme right wing of this country, I am convinced, would like to have good old fashioned public burnings held by the church - "lets burn them gays at the stake in front of our children in the name of morality." I think the extreme left would like to have the mechanics of butt sex explained to our Kindergarteners right before they pass out the free condoms. Its all a game, but it depends upon our willingness to play. While the short term may be filled with dangerous absurdities the likes of which we have yet to imagine, I never lose hope that we will someday move beyond it all.