Upside down

[Terrance]

Otto Sell wrote:
> 
> I admit that German society is sick, but I get the increasing feeling that
> we and the US (and GB, France, Russia and so on) are much sicker then I ever
> thought and because of political correctness nobody dares to say . . .

In America we dare to say (although free speech is now a
legalism that permits not only the correct and incorrect to
say what they please, but to do as they wish with impunity)
too much. Like Hamlet's guilty Mother we protest too much
and we consent too much. 

Take education, we spend billions of tax dollars on
education, education for
all, the foundation of democracy, justice, freedom, Bush
says no child shall be left behind, Gore calls for
excellence. And yet, most of our children are being left
behind or promoted when they shouldn't be and when
excellence shows up  we charge it with elitism. We deplore,
we condemn, we weep over the  sexual promiscuity of our
children because children born to children in a cycle of
poverty and violence is a bad batch of smack on the streets
of our democracy, oh how our children shoot each other up,
with AIDS, with bullets, with all sorts of garbage, but the
television, the movies, the media promotes the violent,
pornographic, pop you, pop her, pop him, pop lyrics from the
Tube rocked cradle to the rapper's grave,  and this is all
in the name of freedom,  the free, the free market of ideas.
The Bush family is as filthy as the Gore family and as dirty
as the Clintons hope to be in three generations. The Nation
is not sick, is not mad, such Freudian Marxism, Norman O.
Brownism, Marcuse and Learyism is wearyism on the soul of
America after 1969. Welcome to the middle, where nothing is
excluded, and the absurd is only one step down on the way to
decadense.