NP - Romney/Ryan

[alice wellintown]

Mad, your metaphor here is dead. A parade? Are you kidding me? A
parade is unoriginal and useless as analogy here. Gawd, did you end
your study of american history and culture after the kennedys were
killed or what?  Moreover, it simply is not true. Americans do not
fancy a hearty parade. The so-called great generation has parades and
dyed the patriotic blood in the sheeps in wolf~s uniforms with their
monuments, but post korea, post vietnam, the parade, the patriotic
parade especially, was put away with the astronutz and then buried in
somber reflections cast in a black wall erected by a chinese american
girl who, as the poem sez, forced us to face it.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177382/

And parades have never been about common sense. A parade has cult
value; it is not pragmatic. As London hands the olympics to Rio, where
a rock band named queen, as queer as jolly old london is, in keeping
with stiff lower dicks, willing to go, we see what a parade does: it
washes away, it cleans, it is a confession and an act of contritition,
then a sacrifice, and then a blessing. For it is still, even in
protestant america, a sin not to celebrate life, and life, of course,
includes death and blood letting.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Madeleine Maudlin
<madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> What Americans enjoy the most is a hearty parade. Does this include things
> that are patriotic?  Absolutely.  What practitioners of a marching band need
> to keep in mind in their joyful parading is that they are singing the
> praises of good old fashioned American common sense.  That parades can be
> marched in circles but are not is tantamount to not persuade the lucrative
> capitalist interests to never advertising to an audience that prefers to
> observes things in a linear, or as Lincoln preferred, horizontal fashion.
> The energy and zest of holiday cheer, especially in the wakes of big
> colorful floats, and in the wakes of big bloody wars, full of the grandest
> shock and awe, and floats in the shape of the magnificent men who make
> America run, bankers, floats made by loyal and happy and hardworking
> American bank employers for those American bankers, all marching toward one
> infinite goal: American pragmatism and hegemony.  Americans know who the
> bosses are, they are the capitalist visionaries of tomorrow, and the
> soldiers who are willing to kill for the bank accounts of those visionaries.
> And I vote for them and grade them all with a blowjob and a smile.