Friday, March 27, 2009

The Tension Rises

Throughout the country, tension is rising as a dozen different factions try to determine their best positioning in the power struggles behind the economic collapse. As we travel around the country, we hear dozens of terms to describe "them", "the other side", "the enemy", "those a******s". Most of them seem to equate the members of the opposition to some sort of creepy-crawly insect. So we're copying all of this stuff down in our beat-up old Moleskine journal (been carrying one for years, but still don't write like Hemingway). We're going to be putting up some of those journal entries here over the next few weeks -- or until one side or the other, or the other, or the other -- puts us out of action.

Some military guy by the name of Myron T. Hooch told us over beers at Steady Eddie's in downtown Boulder-Springs, that it was really important that you were able to dehumanize your enemy so you could get your guys to whack 'em. Anyway what he said made sense over a couple of boilermakers. He also told us he had a book in the works about all this, so we built this website as a place to post some excerpts.

Quack ya later.

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