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06/07/2003 Archived Entry: "You find cool links in the damndest ways sometimes..."
You find cool links in the damndest ways sometimes... So I'm checking my Take Back The Media email, and the anti-virus software alerts me that someone sent me the Klez virus. Always curious as to whose mail is shooting Klez out to the world at large, I go and look at the quarantined message. which has a return addy 'tmcm.com.' I paste the domain into the browser window and find Too Much Coffee Man!. Here's a sampling of some of their commentary: Patriotism makes people stupid. I don’t have statistics on this, it’s not scientific but purely anecdotal; put a flag in someone’s hand or affix it to their windshield and their IQ drops like mercury in a thermometer, like an egg timer rolling back the minutes. In the presence of such an unrelenting daily barrage of effusive patriotic demonstration, I feel the fog building in my head like a thick, testosterone musk, and I must retreat as soon as possible to the womb of my flagless apartment to retrieve all that remains of my ability to reason. Dubya, despite recent, blind support, is still a dumb guy with a sense of morality better suited to an elementary school playground than to world politics. We’re having a war and our adversary is—an abstraction? It’s a War on Terror, which is as close to monsters under the bed as we’ve come in this country since McCarthyism and the communist bugbears. Terrorism, terrorizing, it’s all so terrifically terrifying that no one seems to have actually defined the concept. When we were having a war on—a thing, not an organization, or government, or individual, but a thing—at the end of the last century, at least we’d narrowed it down to something that we could objectify. Reagan’s White House staged implicit metaphorical combat against substances proclaimed to be illegal by U.S. law—at least that’s what I understood The War on Drugs to be about, as much as it could be understood, assuming it wasn’t a War on Cough Syrup. But having a War on Terror is like having a War on Sadness. For Freedom. Because we love America, and—everything it represents? But what does it represent? And, more importantly, what do all those flags represent, that people seem to feel so strongly about that they’re willing to give up IQ points for its advocacy? Good stuff. Worth a visit.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
Oddly enough, I have a few issues of the TMCM comic book. Funny stuff.
Posted by madprophet @ 06/07/2003 03:33 PM NY
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