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I've mentioned before, the strange - to my way of thinking, preternatural - coincidences that often occur.
From time to time, I am "seized" by a topic, and material flows through my fingers to the keyboard as if from whole cloth; no editing, fewer-than-normal typos... you get the picture.
Now, I'm not claiming "divine inspiration" nor am I pinning my hopes on the Muses. As I've said before, I believe in a type of "consciousness bank", which is hard for me to explain properly without ten G&T's under the belt.
Anywaaaay...
I was seized the other day, and included a large screed about one of my fave treatises - Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket". I have read it several dozen times, and it forms the bedrock of my anti-government, anti-war views, along with
- Orwell's 1984
- Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"; and
- Randolph Bourne's "War is the Health of the State"
So what, I hear your moan.
Well, just yesterday, Russell Mokhiber raised the (long-dead) Smedley Butler in a White House briefing!!!
As I was reviewing the Rant last week (the one that pointed to Butler's 1933 treatise) I paused for a second and thought "Should I keep this in? It's a bit pointed."... but it stayed (sometimes I wonder why I bother reviewing my own stuff... I seldom pick up typos until well after I finish and post it).
People must familiarise themselves with this sort of material; you will all know quite well that I am no "leftie", but the party-political system that we currently endure is a vile excresence and must be done away with.
