MoDo writes about how it's
MoDo writes about how it's all about the boomers. Again.
Yes, Ms. Dowd. All you boomers were right! Your struggle was determining the fate of the world! It's all about your worst paranoid fantasies!
Yes, Bobby Rush: the Constitution is being trampled. That's why women can't leave the house, summary public execution is the norm, and any violation of religious law is grounds for immediate punishment. Oh, and I've got news for you, Bobby: using a library card is the least of your surveillance worries. You should cut up your credit cards, disconnect your telephone, cable, and utilities, shred your driver's license, cancel your magazine subscriptions, get off the Internet, keep all your money in cash under the mattress, and wear a mask whenever you go outside so you don't get caught on some random video camera somewhere. Oh no! Where's your privacy, Bobby? In your head, that's where. And, as a Congressman, I'm sure you feel the pain of your disenfranchisement every day.
And Ralph! Nader-boy! Yes, irreversible systemic decay is firmly and irrefutably indicated by budget considerations. That's right! Never mind that they can double the SEC budget next year...the fact that they haven't done it right! now! when! Ralph! says! means, of course, that everything is going to hell in a handbasket.
And perhaps, Ms. Dowd, "those who came of age in the 60's" gave up on John Lennon's wish that they could "imagine no possessions..etc., etc." because Lennon was a multi-millionaire heroin addict and because they decided that Greed was Good when they created those "plum decades" to which you're referring.
Once again, the profound penchant of a certain sort of 60's child for solipsistic navel gazing has reared its graying head. How about lamenting this, Ms. Dowd: you and your revolutionary buddies beat your chests and thought you were changing the world, then grew up and became what you hated.
What exactly, are you trying to point out here? The persistence of boomer paranoia? The complete and utter failure of your vaunted Youth Movement to prevent what it knew was happening? That your drug-fueled utopia wouldn't have done a damn thing to protect us? I'm lost, here. Clue me in.
