Wow, I like how suddenly everything that does not paint us as noble, kind and good is now "Anti-american", let's not let a little thing like reality get in our way. As for the content of the offensive art linking bush to Osama Bin Laden, WELL THEIR FAMILIES HAVE BEEN FRIENDS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS FOR TWENTY FUCKING YEARS! AAAAAAAAAH, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! Ahem, yeah, that's how I feel about it. Reality is good, covering it up is bad. People are stupid and it just goes on and on. "The Masses" are almost always wrong! "The Masses" thought the world was flat, Galileo was a heretic, Jesus needed to be crucified as a heretic, witches should be burned at the stake, Natives here should be rounded up and hauled off to reservations (although killing most of them was easier).
You know, fuck all that, fuck political correctness. I'm not so daft as to believe logic or reason will ever prevail amoung people who are just too underdeveloped to receive it, but I have to hope for at least a shread of human decency, we HAVE to be capable of that! Our nation has an ugly history of violence and cruelty, maybe if we realised it fully, we could make a new decision based on not wanting to return there. By just ignoring it we allow it to continue.
"Ground zero" is not holy land, it's a place where an atrocity occured much like many atrocities have occured in the past. It seems the perfect place to proclaim "No more!" Art is here to enlighten us, and if we will not be enlightened then what hope can we possibly have? We allow the thick and the slow to lead us, our choices in leaders reveal much about our society as a whole, don't you think? We allow fear and rhetoric to guide our thinking (what little of it we do) and will be given to spouting out soundbytes if anyone asks our opinion on anything (yes, I really do talk to almost everyone I meet about this stuff). Extremely few people do any research at all and many who do are doing it to provide the answers they want rather than to uncover the truth to the best of their ability. Don't you think I would LOVE to be able to back this president? Don't you think I'm a fat american who craves comfort just like you? I AM, and I'd be delighted to be able to believe in him, God knows I tried after 9/11 to give him a chance and keep an open mind. He proceeded to erase any hope I could possibly have that he was honest, had integrity, cared about our people, or cared about anything other than himself for that matter. Much of our leadership is coming out of the closet with their selfishness now, unapologetically because they know they don't have to apologise to us. We are so easily frightened by threats to our security that we gladly bend over and take it up the ass on anything they suggest, and in our shrinking weakness we leave ourselves vulnerable to the wicked and the greedy. Shame on us all if we allow this to happen. We are standing on the threashold of a choice, what we choose could be relevant, but I believe we will decline to make the choice, thus allowing the object in motion to stay in motion.