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Corporate Performance Art

By Al Schumann on Saturday August 28, 2010 08:47 PM

Is there a qualitative difference between "Restoring Honor" and "Change We Can Believe In"? Their respective enthusiasts are equally sincere and have the same chance of achieving their notional goals. In practice, the notional goals will evaporate into a bad smell. Once they've achieved it, they'll feel the same maudlin sense of victimhood. The difference is one group will be sore losers and the other will be sore winners. Both will then want to "take back the country". The only thing that comes close to being real is the soreness.

I can sympathize, but only up to a point. Suffering caused by persistent, freely chosen victimhood is real suffering, and the degree of it is wildly unjust, but dragging everyone else down too is simply vindictive; the sufferers' ignorance and vulnerability to peer pressure notwithstanding.

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For a succinct analysis of that day's events in snappy, musical form, cast your peepers at the latest Town Hell Posse video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtiIsumfWRk

...and my blog entry at:
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=646

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