The memory hole

[blues90]

With all of the daily events now there seems to be no way of avoiding the memory hole .

I sat down today to think about and sort out a few things I seem to have forgot .

I wondered about the troop who was left behind in Iraq and I can't remember what part of Iraq it was or if he was ever located .

I wondered about the poor fellow who set himself on fire in Chicago who was an avid activist now forgotten .

I wonder what is going on in Lebanon since all the bombing took place .

This and much more seem to be events that vanish as footprints in the sand by the next wave .

[pitohui]

1. i agree

it reminds of tim leary's writings that to save the human race we've got to figure out some way of intelligence increase so we can handle wisely all this information overload

i don't think lsd proved to the technology for this that he hoped, but there's got to be some technology for improving our brains because we really do desperate need more memory space and better processing!

[XemaSab]

2. I had a theory BEFORE 9-11 that the M.O. of the BFEE

is to envelop us in such a shitstorm that we can never gain traction on a single issue.

One day he's limiting family planning funding, the next day he's raising the amount of arsenic in the water, the next day he's screwing over mine workers, and the next day he's giving public money to religious groups.

Every day it's a new outrage, and we can never get our shit together to fight any one thing.

Here's a link to the most excellent "Scorecard of Evil." Good times.
http://jesseberney.com/scorecard_print.html

[blues90]

3. I have never seen anything like it before

It is every single day something happens to pull the attention away form the day before , even hours before .

Since the 2000 election fraud we have been going through an endless stream of events , from terror to poverty and beyond .

Everyday some plant closes down or is outsourced or there is a new plan to attack our privacy .

I don't even watch local news because it seems so incidental now days .

Bush and co have rendered an attack not only on other countries but on the citizens here . All the corps of the house of greed have all jumped in to take advantage of any situation they can and the beat goes on .

We live in a criminal enterprise that makes the mafia pale in comparison .

[XemaSab]

4. It makes you think that the only solution

is to take care of your own self and screw everyone else. Which is the absolute last thing we need.

In 2000 I thought it was going to be shitty, but not this shitty by a longshot.

9-11. Katrina. The tsunami. Afghanistan. Iraq. The total destruction of civil liberties.

Each of these things is in the running for the worst thing to happen in my lifetime.

Hard to say which is the worst.

Worst. President. Ever. :(

[blues90]

5. I never thought it would get this bad either

I felt bush was a huge mistake , then the counting of shads , but when bush actually got in I was thinking well 4 years how much damage could he do , he looked like such a fool but I was still troubled by 4 years if this idiot .

Now after 6 years I am mortified . I couldn't believe bush stole 2004 or that america would be supportive of this attack on Iraq .

It just never ends , we are still going through hell and it will take decades to pull this back if ever . I feel america is scared forever now . It does not feel like america to me anymore , not in the least bit .

[XemaSab]

6. There's no "undo" button here

We are going to be decades rebuilding our reputation.

When we went into Iraq, some of our allies went with us BECAUSE WE WERE AMERICA and our word was good. Can we ever lead these other countries into war again, even a just war? :shrug:

[praeclarus]

7. scorecard is great...

... must have depressed the shit out of the author, though.
It ends abruptly in Oct 2003.