> Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution
15 November 2005, 06:19
Fear reverses all intelligent processes! .... Leland Powers.
I’m currently reading Gore Vidal’s brilliant "Imperial America: Reflections onf the United States of Amnesia," a collection of essays, or short stories or pamphlets’ written during different sitting Presidents and published in "The Nation" over the past several decades but they all read like he’s speaking in the moment. Now is a few decades later, it’s all come true and sadly enough, we listened to the fear mongers calling the shots from behind bank vault doors from where we can’t hear the click of the weapons and oil barons bullion being counted and stashed, hidden from any of we the people upon whose backs they abscond tax dollars to fund their nasty crusades pilliging nations around the palnet of their resources. Is Gore Vidal that far ahead of us or is it that the rest of us are so far behind. He warned us over and over but we were and continue to be controlled by a very select who own it all, whom merely use and dispose of the rest of us like a ’swiffer’ dust rags. Don’t get me started. Forgive me, I only discovered the potency of Gore Vidal when I recently and finally got around to reading one of his articles on line last week. Since then I’ve barely stopped trying to find out what is available of his work in print. Williwaw. his very first novel, written er published when he was a mere twenty-one years of age, is waiting on my bedside table to be read when I’ve consumed the aforementioned text. Recently, he has become an ’octogenarian,’ which you know if you clicked on the link with his name above. I’ve fallen very much in like with my newly discovered favourite author and will honour him by ingesting his legacy daily. Happy Birthday Mr. Vidal. To my delight I found an elaborate list of novels, short stories, plays, essays, a memoir, history and yes, even more pamphlets posted at the beginning of the book which I’m elated to know I still have yet to read. I’ll be taking you to bed nightly for a good while yet to come. namasté
neil e mac.... Gore Vidal makes sense of scary White House nonsense,
Fear reverses all intelligent processes! .... Leland Powers.
I’m currently reading Gore Vidal’s brilliant "Imperial America: Reflections onf the United States of Amnesia," a collection of essays, or short stories or pamphlets’ written during different sitting Presidents and published in "The Nation" over the past several decades but they all read like he’s speaking in the moment. Now is a few decades later, it’s all come true and sadly enough, we listened to the fear mongers calling the shots from behind bank vault doors from where we can’t hear the click of the weapons and oil barons bullion being counted and stashed, hidden from any of we the people upon whose backs they abscond tax dollars to fund their nasty crusades pilliging nations around the palnet of their resources. Is Gore Vidal that far ahead of us or is it that the rest of us are so far behind. He warned us over and over but we were and continue to be controlled by a very select who own it all, whom merely use and dispose of the rest of us like a ’swiffer’ dust rags. Don’t get me started. Forgive me, I only discovered the potency of Gore Vidal when I recently and finally got around to reading one of his articles on line last week. Since then I’ve barely stopped trying to find out what is available of his work in print. Williwaw. his very first novel, written er published when he was a mere twenty-one years of age, is waiting on my bedside table to be read when I’ve consumed the aforementioned text. Recently, he has become an ’octogenarian,’ which you know if you clicked on the link with his name above. I’ve fallen very much in like with my newly discovered favourite author and will honour him by ingesting his legacy daily.
Happy Birthday Mr. Vidal. To my delight I found an elaborate list of novels, short stories, plays, essays, a memoir, history and yes, even more pamphlets posted at the beginning of the book which I’m elated to know I still have yet to read. I’ll be taking you to bed nightly for a good while yet to come. namasté
neil e mac.... Gore Vidal makes sense of scary White House nonsense,