My Comments
Dick Cheney's legacy will survive as one of supreme courage and sacrifice, as a man who (perhaps blindly) acted from a position ideological automation, as a bathroom break in the American Theater, and while everyone was away from their seats a new sprinkler system was installed. What most intuit, and naive conspiaracy activists refuse to understand, is that without that bathroom break, and the new sprinkler system (a mild inconvenience, it detracts from the purity of the old architecture) the American Theater was about to burn down. And everyone would have been trapped inside. Some will always lament and pine away for the old American Theater. But America's presence as witness and principle actor in the violent upheaving of late stage capitalism and globalized nuclear diplomacy means at some point the old Enlightenment notions of the free subject and democratic participation would become mere nostalgia. The alternative is an outwardly VIOLENT and repressive state, civil unrest on the level of hellishness, and, ultimately, collapse. However you feel, we are all as complicate in 9/11 as any supposed cabal. Cheney, I believe, is fundamentaly aware of what America would have become without 911 and accepted (big balls) the role of "the dark side." He's smart enough to know we are all - not Darth Vadar - but Jabbah the Huts, fat and relatively satisfied with our small empire on the outskirts of the Empire, upset when we feel slightly impnged upon, but dependent on their exact form of "evil" to even stake out our most simple enjoyments.
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Dick Cheney's legacy will survive as one of supreme courage and sacrifice, as a man who (perhaps blindly) acted from a position ideological automation, as a bathroom break in the American Theater, and while everyone was away from their seats a new sprinkler system was installed. What most intuit, and naive conspiaracy activists refuse to understand, is that without that bathroom break, and the new sprinkler system (a mild inconvenience, it detracts from the purity of the old architecture) the American Theater was about to burn down. And everyone would have been trapped inside. Some will always lament and pine away for the old American Theater. But America's presence as witness and principle actor in the violent upheaving of late stage capitalism and globalized nuclear diplomacy means at some point the old Enlightenment notions of the free subject and democratic participation would become mere nostalgia. The alternative is an outwardly VIOLENT and repressive state, civil unrest on the level of hellishness, and, ultimately, collapse. However you feel, we are all as complicate in 9/11 as any supposed cabal. Cheney, I believe, is fundamentaly aware of what America would have become without 911 and accepted (big balls) the role of "the dark side." He's smart enough to know we are all - not Darth Vadar - but Jabbah the Huts, fat and relatively satisfied with our small empire on the outskirts of the Empire, upset when we feel slightly impnged upon, but dependent on their exact form of "evil" to even stake out our most simple enjoyments.