http://www.geebobg.com/2006/09/08/were-number-one/ Americlecticintellectica Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:02:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.geebobg.com/2006/09/08/were-number-one/comment-page-1/#comment-51 gee bobg » Blog Archive » We are already dead Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:19:51 +0000 http://emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/09/08/were-number-one/#comment-51 [...] With too few exceptions, our leaders today in politics, business, and the media are fearful soldiers who do not realize we are already dead, fighting (if they fight at all) as if they still have something to protect, as if a degree of moderation will somehow avoid total disaster. Well they don’t, and it won’t. There is no cautious route to survival through this landscape. Their half-measures will avail no one. They will end in a gulag (as some of this evil regime’s political enemies already have), broken physically by their pitiless captors and psychologically by the knowledge that, when they could have done more, they didn’t. [...] [...] With too few exceptions, our leaders today in politics, business, and the media are fearful soldiers who do not realize we are already dead, fighting (if they fight at all) as if they still have something to protect, as if a degree of moderation will somehow avoid total disaster. Well they don’t, and it won’t. There is no cautious route to survival through this landscape. Their half-measures will avail no one. They will end in a gulag (as some of this evil regime’s political enemies already have), broken physically by their pitiless captors and psychologically by the knowledge that, when they could have done more, they didn’t. [...]

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