Hot Buttons
There are issues that matter to each of us in a way that is unique, even peculiar to the individual. Booksquare seethes when female porn is discussed, ie, that romance novels appeal only to the prurient side of a reader’s imagination. I don’t blame her. Calling romance porn is the sort of ankle biting approach the president and his cronies employ. Remember global warming? The Kyoto Accords? Warmer oceans, bigger, faster, meaner hurricanes? Okay we’re approaching one of my hot buttons: demonizing ideas, emotions, human nature in this game of moral superiority for purposes of acrruing power. What really pisses me off is that it works. It works so well that President Bush fell asleep for Katrina, thinking a pious homily on the nature of sin would probably fill the need for comment in the aftermath. Nawlins feels the wrath of God. Turns out that God wears a windbreaker and a FEMA ballcap and creates rules for refugees involving two forms of picture ID.
Weak thinking eg female porn goes unchallenged. It is cumulative, like arsenic in the bloodstream. From stem cell research to respecting individual boundaries there is an institutional disregard for the fruits of thought, research, argument, logic, and reason. Into the void comes the canned heat of telegenic spin, bread and circuses, unenforceable laws, fear, guns, broken levvies, and a social contract ankle biters are rewriting just as fast as they can.