What I dont get is how does bush (or anybody else, for that matter) knows its god doing the talking. After all it could be Lucifer, immitating gods voice, how can we be sure? It is fascinating that, in this case, that not only hearing voices, but acting on them with lethal force — it remains a taboo to question the source or authenticity of these voices. And its not like there is any consistancy with people reporting on what god has told them, is god telling pat robertson something different than george bush, or the pope , or some institutionalized clinical schizophrenic? Would, or do they ever compare notes? Its doubtful, because I think people see all this god talk stuff really, as an icon of commitment to shared belief. Somehow, its seen as a testament, a tacit admission of fanaticism that borders on the crazy just to the degree necessary to illustrate the level of belief desired — which in bushes case — to convince the fundies that he’s really one of them, in order for them to have belief in him. A perfect infant-ocratic circle, that not by happenstance, also finds harmonic resonance in its flip-side murdochian venal trash culture, where a similar maddness is perpetuated through the display of hysterical emotionalism and devious manipulation masqueraded as (perhaps the last vestage)of human authenticity (as pointed out so often and eloquently by r’giap). It is then a certain maddness, exemplified by hysterical self obsession and narcissim that is transmitted from that city on the hill down to all the sheeple as a reality fabricated, that is reinforced by mutually shared fear and agony — in proxie for the real human social(ist) bonds that have been shorn from experience, which, having been allowed to florish, would have cemented mutual experience into a cohesion whereby the aberrant would have remained aberrant — instead of the norm.

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 18 2006 23:52 utc | 2