In Which Jung prewrites AtD's epigraph

[David Morris]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Ian Livingston
<igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My focus is on our projecting our own pathology onto these
>> technologies as expressed in TRP's and his predecessors' fiction. Our
>> "roots" being apes that gained "sentience."
>
> And none are more terrified of sentience than are Americans.

Sadly, yes.  But really only a minority that's been let run amok by
the elite that has played them so well for many years.  The GOP's
monster.

Driftglass is a great blogger:

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2012/03/american-conservatism-is-democracys.html

American Conservatism is Democracy's Retrovirus

The Conservative Hate Virus that was cultivated by Nixon and went
pneumonic under Reagan destroyed Conservatism decades ago and replaced
it with a slowly-rotting corpse.  A shambling, gibbering, mindless
thing that, for a time, served both the RNC's electoral interests and
Rupert Murdochs's business interests.  It put every bitter clinger,
crackpot, bigot, gun-nut, Christopath, homophobe, Klansman, brownshirt
and anti-woman douchbag and anti-science glibertarian in-harness
together to pull the GOP to victory and to make thugs like Rush
Limbaugh very, very rich.

And the formula for turning hate into a profit-center is so damn easy!
 Just wave a flag in front of their big, vacant eyes, poke 'em with a
stick (ACORN!  Commies!  Sluts! Kenyan Usurper!) every few minutes,
call 'em super-patriots for jerking off to Sean Hannity and Ann
Coulter, and point them where you want them to go.

The Conservatism Retrovirus left us open to infection from a whole
suite of  opportunistic wingnut disease, and from Falwell to Limbaugh
to Beck, Conservatism has permitted each of them and all of their
mutant imitators to breeze past democracy's natural antibodies -- an
educated electorate, an honest press, a respectful politics -- and
settle in for a nice, long parasite feast.

Andrew Breitbart was just such an opportunistic disease: another
ratfucking bastard child of Lee Atwater and Roy Cohn who took a
sociopath's glee in the wide, pestilential path he carved through
America's political media. He destroyed people and pissed on their
graves for fun and profit and prospered because he completely
understood and embraced what a collection of monsters and meatsticks
the Right truly is.