Emptybottle.org

No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes


« Loads More Girls
Mowing Down Motherfcukers »

Decline and Fall

If you're not reading Billmon already, you should be. He delivers another bang-on-target essay here.

Something at the core of the American spirit has been corrupted -- by wealth and power and the steady commercialization of just about everything. And we're a nation divided, more so than at any time since the Civil War, split into mutually hostile camps, secular and religious, liberal and conservative, casually cosmopolitan and reflexively, if not rabidly, nationalist.

So the war on terrorism has become just another skirmish in the war between the cultures. And the causes and consequences of failures -- like 9/11 -- get swept under the rug by the party in power, while the party out of power is either silenced by its own ineffectuality, or simply tries to score points of its own in the endless PR game.

About This Post

What is this? Why am I here? What does it mean? Where should I go now?

Well, this is a post to the personal website Emptybottle.org. It was posted by your genial host stavrosthewonderchicken on December 12, 2003, and is titled Decline and Fall. It was published to the categories: Politics Chafe My Scrote. In any of those places you might well find other similar things that will bring you Super Double Happiness.

Note: Super Double Happiness is not guaranteed. Void where prohibited by local regulation.

If you feel like it, why not join the personal publishing revolution and leave a comment

You can also subscribe to the comments feed for this post. Not sure why you'd want to, but I aim to please.

The previous entry on the site is Loads More Girls, and the next one is Mowing Down Motherfcukers.

Enjoy your stay, and please indulge sensibly.

Need hosting? Emptybottle.org is hosted by and recommends Dreamhost. They're swell!

Search the site

Comments: You got fingers, right?
1 Comments |
  1. 1

    tizzie said

    "International law? I'd better call my lawyer!"
    Fucking dumbass. We are drowning in shame.

    December 14, 2003 9:26 AM

Choose your poison: the 'bottle by category
Browse recent posts from 20000 feet

Metablogging

What's It All About, Alfie?

I have operated on a few simple principles for more than two decades now, with good success. First, do no harm. Or as little as [read more...]

Emptybottle Version 4.0

Well, I've rolled out the new design to the front page (as you can see if you're not reading this in a feedreader). I'm pretty [read more...]

Me|dia

What's It All About, Alfie?

I have operated on a few simple principles for more than two decades now, with good success. First, do no harm. Or as little as [read more...]

First Paragraphs From Stories I'll Never Write Episode 2

The nails didn't hurt nearly as much as I'd expected going in, but the pain bombshell blossomed as they dropped the post into the hole [read more...]

Thoughts That, If Not Deep, Are At Least Wide

LOLifornication

I've been downloading and cycloptically watching the new series Californication because a) I quite like David Duchovny b) he plays a hard-drinking writer c) the [read more...]

Armageddon Schadenfreude

When I was a teenager, I thought a lot about the end of the world. In particular, the rain of nukes that always seemed just [read more...]

Reminiscences

My Home Is Dying

When you grow up in the far north in Canada, if you're at all curious about the world and the people in it, you can't [read more...]

Armageddon Schadenfreude

When I was a teenager, I thought a lot about the end of the world. In particular, the rain of nukes that always seemed just [read more...]

Recent comments » Say stuff!

Advertisement



Visit all the fine destinations in the Wonderchicken Industries™ Network