10.04.2004
When Nov2 Passes
After it's all over, said and done, what will we bloggers, readers, and commenters do with ourselves? There has been at least one 'high journalist' from the MSM who has said much of this mass cackling will abate. Wither away. Die down to nothing.
I can't say with certainty, any more than W could divine the future when it mattered. As for me, it's a question only time will answer. Today, I am locked hard to the great play on the stage. I've been waiting for these moments of high, pulp stage-play since the last election. Some would say that is the beginning and end of it, cheap drama.
I think it is not a cheap, Vaudeville act. That certainly may be a part of it, like Kerry's orange face, his botox treatments, and his debate lipstick. Like Kitty Kelley's tawdry tales of Laura and W taking tokes at Camp David. We love cheap gossip though we wouldn't admit it in every circle. In the end, it is anything but worth little. The election is part of the grand sweep of history, which plays not to us, but to the ages. Think of Nero fiddling, Marco Polo fingering a bolt of silk, or the Sun King mocking one of his court jesters.
If Bush wins, then it will no doubt (once again) have come about by foul play -- civilization as we know it will continue its slide into the abyss of fascism (I'm parroting the leftist line here). If Kerry wins, then America will have abdicated its righteous role as protector of free ideals, and the slide into Gommorah will have begun ( for you leftists, that's a conservative line).
What I am trying to say is that the blogosphere will keep on writing, pecking at the heels of whichever ideology chafes at the sensibilities. You can flat out bank on it, if Bush wins. You know the next four year look-ahead will be set; the vision of Hillary at the helm will be fuel plenty enough. If Kerry wins, the angst-mixed anger of the right will carry on full-steam. That Billy Joel song is busting my cranium -- "and the fire keeps on burning".
I suppose I'll keep trolling. There are plenty of writers in the blogosphere who love what they do -- to such a great extent -- that controversy will fly fast and furious from all quarters, because there is too much going on in this big-old world to imagine otherwise.
After it's all over, said and done, what will we bloggers, readers, and commenters do with ourselves? There has been at least one 'high journalist' from the MSM who has said much of this mass cackling will abate. Wither away. Die down to nothing.
I can't say with certainty, any more than W could divine the future when it mattered. As for me, it's a question only time will answer. Today, I am locked hard to the great play on the stage. I've been waiting for these moments of high, pulp stage-play since the last election. Some would say that is the beginning and end of it, cheap drama.
I think it is not a cheap, Vaudeville act. That certainly may be a part of it, like Kerry's orange face, his botox treatments, and his debate lipstick. Like Kitty Kelley's tawdry tales of Laura and W taking tokes at Camp David. We love cheap gossip though we wouldn't admit it in every circle. In the end, it is anything but worth little. The election is part of the grand sweep of history, which plays not to us, but to the ages. Think of Nero fiddling, Marco Polo fingering a bolt of silk, or the Sun King mocking one of his court jesters.
If Bush wins, then it will no doubt (once again) have come about by foul play -- civilization as we know it will continue its slide into the abyss of fascism (I'm parroting the leftist line here). If Kerry wins, then America will have abdicated its righteous role as protector of free ideals, and the slide into Gommorah will have begun ( for you leftists, that's a conservative line).
What I am trying to say is that the blogosphere will keep on writing, pecking at the heels of whichever ideology chafes at the sensibilities. You can flat out bank on it, if Bush wins. You know the next four year look-ahead will be set; the vision of Hillary at the helm will be fuel plenty enough. If Kerry wins, the angst-mixed anger of the right will carry on full-steam. That Billy Joel song is busting my cranium -- "and the fire keeps on burning".
I suppose I'll keep trolling. There are plenty of writers in the blogosphere who love what they do -- to such a great extent -- that controversy will fly fast and furious from all quarters, because there is too much going on in this big-old world to imagine otherwise.
// posted by HunterByrd @ 4:56 PM 
