Bush bases his view of history on the Teachings of a Drug crazed resentful Christian Wannabe whose writings, having nothing to do with Jesus' Original ideas, were incorporated into the New Testament by Roman tyrants who proceeded to introduce the western world to self-righteous imperial conquest in the name of compassion and peace.
by Dr. Gerry Lower
OpEdNews.Com
George W. Bush, when asked by Bob Woodward "how is history likely to
judge your Iraq war?" replied, "History, we don't know. We'll
all be dead." (Woodward Shares War Secrets, CBS News, 60 Minutes,
April 18, 2004).
It is possible that Bush's comment "We'll all be dead" might
only be subconsciously related to his belief in apocalypse. Perhaps he
only meant that by the time "history" is written, we'll all be
dead of prevailing disease and old age. If that is the case, the man
remains a complete idiot. History did not wait for Hitler to die before
condemning him, nor did the Republican party wait for Clinton to die
before condemning him. History will not wait for George either. The man is
already in deep trouble everywhere but in his half of America.
It is not clear just what Bush meant with his remark if taken outside the
context of apocalypse. It is more clear that Bush does not know what he
meant either, since his remark doesn't make any sense outside of the
context of apocalypse. So, what else is new about our affable guy
president?
Interpreting a fool might best be left to fools. On the other hand, Bush
does fervently believe that he is doing the work of his god, and we can
expect the worst. Given Bush's alcoholic indebtedness to the Old Testament
apocalyptic religion that keeps him sober, we are justified in examining
his remark in that context, even if Bush did not understand the context
within which he made the remark.
In one of those rare moments when Bush actually appeared to provide
something resembling a direct answer to a direct question, Bush may have
let his psychosis (and the psychosis of his neocon advisors) slip into
public view, not much of that psychosis and only for the moment, but
enough to allow a reasonable appreciation of the deep trouble into which
Bush has plunged a frightened and frighteningly naive American citizenry.
Conservative Americans thought they were voting for a good religious
family man in government and they got a Jim Jones.
"We'll all be dead." By what empirical and historical evidence
does this ill-educated, inarticulate Howdy Doody arrive at this
conclusion? This may not be a very correct way to refer to the appointed
president of the UnitedStates, but do you realize what this man (trained
at America's finest universities) is saying? "We'll all be
dead." Cute little children in Japan, wonderfully bright students in
Ukraine, stressed out housewives in America, marvelous old gentlemen in
Norway ... all dead. Just ask George W. Bush. By any sane criteria, this
man and his administration are religiously psychotic.
Bush is saying that he and his crony neocon advisors know precisely what
makes the world clock tick; they even know who is worthy and who is not.
Bush is saying that he alone knows what is going to happen to the entire
human race. Bush is saying that the cultural "isms" of the rest
of the world (e.g., Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism) are so much
intellectual fluff. It is the manly, apocalyptic world of death that Bush
envisions, as if a Shinto farm woman in northern Japan would give a rat's
ass. Is this an exercise in megalomania or what?
Bush, in claiming that "We'll all be dead" is apparently
aware of ways to kill people even more effectively than epidemic
infectious disease, war and natural death. Despite all of that human
misery, the human population has still managed to reach some 6 billion in
nummber. How does Bush plan to eliminate every last fertile man and woman
on this planet? How much of that global slaughter is Bush going to
implement himself, directly and indirectly, and how much is he leaving up
to his god? Is this an exercise in megalomania or what?
Bush, in claiming knowledge of our upcoming global demise, is implying
that he and his advisors alone possess knowledge that ordinary people
could never comprehend, hence there is no need for public discussion of
the "higher" knowledge driving Bush's political agenda. Because
Bush is carrying out his god's work, he actually believes that the world
needs the kind of self-righteous, belligerent global
"leadership" that he is now famous for providing to former
allies. Is this an exercise in megalomania or what?
George Monbiot reports that 15 - 18 % of the American electorate belong to
churches which support a literal interpretation of the Book of
Revelations. For every one of those people there must be about four more
"good" people who go right along with overt megalomania out of
loyalty to traditional religious authority and blind faith in their
"war president." These are the 49% of the electorate who
routinely see the beam in their brother's eye and never the moat in their
own.
Written by John of Patmos about 90 AD, the Book of Revelations is an
opium-enhanced exercise in Old Testament vengeance. John, a would-be
Christian, was so distraught with his treatment at the hands of
pre-Christian Romans, he introduced harshly anti-Christian thought into
the historical record. Two centuries later, when nascent Christianity was
adopted and perverted by the Roman emperor, Constantine, this
hallucinatory effort eventually become part of New Testament Roman
scripture (despite having nothing to do with nascent Christian doctrine).
The sadly pathetic view which Bush sees fit to impose upon the entire
world was written by a chronically-persecuted, terminally-depressed
"druggie" living in Roman exile. John's apocalyptic tome was
incorporated into Roman "Christianity" by Roman tyrants who
proceeded to introduce the western world to self-righteous imperial
conquest in the name of compassion and peace.
Four billion years of rigorously-documentable evolutionary progress and
the best that Bush can come up with for a finale is death? Millennia of
cultural evolution, from the beat of tribal drums to the world wide web,
from the depths of biblical despotism to the concept of a global
democracy, and the best that Bush can come up with for a finale is death?
It would never occur to Bush and his religious supporters that the only
thing they are going to eliminate from the earth is vengeance-based
religion and corrupt crony capitalism, discredited from the global
political arena forever. That is the far more likely outcome. The finale
will be the emergence of a global democracy and a new beginning for
everything human.
Bush is a man who ought be sent back to a university where he might
acquire something resembling a "higher education." It has been a
long time since educated people have believed that the earth is flat under
heaven's dome. It has been a long time since educated people have believed
that disease is godly punishment for earthly sin. It has been a long time
since educated people have believed that all people on this planet came
from Adam, a man without a belly button. It has been a long time since
educated people have clearly opted for democracy over religious despotism.
According to Bush, we do not need to worry about the outcome of his
preemptory war on Iraq because "we'll all be dead." There is
likely no intelligent response to that ludicrous proclamation that does
not employ America's favorite four-letter "F" word. In the world
of religious freedom that Jefferson provided for all Americans, Bush has
every right to impose his apocalyptic world view on himself. Good for him.
Bush has no right whatsoever to impose his apocalyptic world view on
another living soul, least of all the children who will outlive Bush by
decades.
All thoughtful and caring American citizens ought be afraid, very afraid.
Bush is likely inviting us to the People's Temple for a glass of grape
Kool-Aide.
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Dr. Gerry Lower lives in the shadow of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills
of South Dakota. His recent book, Jefferson's Eyes, provides an
evolutionary paradigm for comprehending American history. No longer can we
afford to see our history as an economic success story. We must see our
history as a departure from original values www.jeffersonseyes.com
He can be reached at tisland@blackhills.com
