--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > SNIP> > > > Bush is something that never should have happened > > in the first place, a stupid mistake. > > > > ******** > > Every group gets the government it deserves
Yeah, that's a given. I was trying to get at something else entirely and having trouble articulating it. > -- Bush is a mistake > only in the sense that he is representative of a very mistaken > people. Bush happened because the American people are, on average, > as stupid as he is (turn on the TV any night if you doubt that), > and they continue to channelize his thinking. Only higher > consciousness among the populace will create a situation where more > intelligent leaders are enabled. See, we *used* to have more intelligent leaders, even if they were bad ones. That was why I was comparing Bush with Nixon. Shakespeare could have written a play about Nixon; he's a Richard III-type character. But Shakespeare would never have written a play about Bush. He just doesn't have the *stature*. There's more to it than lack of intelligence (and he isn't stupid IQ-wise). Bush doesn't have a tragic flaw; his flaws don't rise to the level of tragedy. Bush wouldn't even be worth writing a history play about because he isn't an interesting enough personality. For that matter, Shakespeare could have written a play about Clinton, or Lyndon Johnson, or Kennedy, or Eisenhower, even Jimmy Carter, or Bush I. Bush is at the center of some of the most important events and trends in American (and world) history. But he's just a cipher, an *absence*. There's no there there. If Shakespeare *had* to write a play about the Bush era, the main character would have to be Karl Rove, or perhaps Cheney; Bush would be a minor character. That's why I say he's a mistake--it's as if the trends of time took a detour they weren't supposed to take and got stuck in a dead end. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
