Comments on: Welcome to the Twilight Zone http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/welcome-to-the-twilight-zone/ The official blog of UC Santa Barbara's newspaper, the Daily Nexus. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:33:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Blaise Vanderhorst http://blog.dailynexus.com/shallow/politicsetal/welcome-to-the-twilight-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-7426 Blaise Vanderhorst Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:52:13 +0000 http://blog.dailynexus.com/?p=1379#comment-7426 Wonderfully written, Audrey. The Nobel Committee have made fools of themselves, and, if trends continue, they will have awarded a man who has achieved nothing and failed at nearly everything. The fact that he was chosen for the award after less than two weeks in office reveals the deceitfulness of the elites. Conservative or Liberal, they do not care for the people, but merely seek to manipulate them, to pander to their appetites so that they might retain power. Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat, Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC, all are part of the hydra whose coils ensnare and smother us all. For the liberals Obama has been a disappointment, a sellout, and "not liberal enough", while Conservatives, and even a fare share of moderates, see him as a socialist and a threat to American liberty. America, that once exceptional national, the one nation with the power to change the world for the better, has chosen inaction, mediocrity, and to pursue the failed models of post-modern Western Europe. I'm reminded of the first part of Yeats' "The Second Coming": Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Wonderfully written, Audrey. The Nobel Committee have made fools of themselves, and, if trends continue, they will have awarded a man who has achieved nothing and failed at nearly everything. The fact that he was chosen for the award after less than two weeks in office reveals the deceitfulness of the elites. Conservative or Liberal, they do not care for the people, but merely seek to manipulate them, to pander to their appetites so that they might retain power. Conservative or Liberal, Republican or Democrat, Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC, all are part of the hydra whose coils ensnare and smother us all.

For the liberals Obama has been a disappointment, a sellout, and “not liberal enough”, while Conservatives, and even a fare share of moderates, see him as a socialist and a threat to American liberty.
America, that once exceptional national, the one nation with the power to change the world for the better, has chosen inaction, mediocrity, and to pursue the failed models of post-modern Western Europe.

I’m reminded of the first part of Yeats’ “The Second Coming”:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

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