The Descent of Man
Presidential Mutation Through Unnatural Selection
November 25, 2003
Dom Stasi Hollywood,
California USA
| "There
is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and
talents. There is also an artificial aristocracy, founded on wealth and
birth, without either virtue or talents.” - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, 1801 "Families
is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." The current President
of the United States does not believe in the Darwinian concept of evolution.
This is not unusual. At least it is not unusual in this country. Neither
is it terribly troubling in and of itself. What is unusual, is that
today America finds herself with a president who not only rejects the
theory of evolution, but whom all evidence would suggest, has also neglected
to participate as vigorously as he should have in its practice. More
simply stated, wealth and birth might have elevated George W. Bush to
high political office without either virtue or talents, but lineage
alone does not excuse him from the biological prerequisite and political
responsibility of having evolved. Stated more simply still, George W.
Bush is verifiably dumber than his traceable human ancestors, and history
confirms that he’s dumber than every single one of his presidential
predecessors. In fact, quoting a description of George W. Bush offered
to reporters (back when there were reporters) by Richard Perle one of
Bushs most trusted advisors and the man who invented the reasons for
war with Iraq Perle said, "He (Bush) doesn't know very much. Indeed."
That the worlds most powerful and dangerous man should reach his fifty-eighth
year not knowing very much, is flabbergasting. But its also true. He
doesn't know very much. I don't like this bit of reality any more than
you do. But the scientific pretext of evolutionary theory is elevated
above hypothesis by postulation from empirical evidence. Thus, we who
comprise today's remnant of the American republic are left to consider
empirics which conclude that in a mere 200 years, the impossible linear
successor to the genius of Thomas Jefferson, is none other than a drug
and substance abusing military deserter and business failure whose family
fortunes derive in part from Hitler and Bin Laden, 1, 2 and whose intellect
is roughly akin to that of Australopithecus. Simply stated, our president
has the smarts of a pre-adolescent human child and the mores of a mosaic
virus. This character with his finger on the button that can destroy
the world is a demonstrable bonehead. Think what he might do if he ever
learns to pronounce nuclear. Preeminent Harvard psychologist, Lawrence
Kohlberg sums up human moral development in five categories. The least
of these is not surprisingly Stage Zero. Kohlberg writes, Stage Zero:
Egocentric judgment. The child makes judgments of good on the basis
of what he likes and wants or what helps him, and bad on the basis of
what he does not like or what hurts him. He has no concept of rules
or of obligations to obey or conform to independent of his wish. Perhaps
this stage of arrested development is best evident in our grown-up presidents
own words, I see things in black and white. I'm not about nuancing.
Or, in his summation of the ideological motivations of the entire human
race, all 6.8 billion of us,"Youre either with us, or you're with
the terrorists." And my personal favorite, when speaking to Bob
Woodward of Watergate fame, the president of the United States said,
"I am the commander, see. I do not need to explain why I say things.
That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody
needs to explain to me why they need to say something, but I don't feel
like I owe anybody an explanation." Responding to this last statement,
psychotherapist Dr. Carol Norris observes, "What a profoundly childlike
thing to say (not to be confused with childish). It sounds to me like
a kid trying desperately, yet transparently, to convince people he is
fit for a role he secretly is unsure he can fulfill and discuss."
She goes on to add, : Stage Zero. 3 In a representative democracy, that
says at least as much about a presidents constituency, as it does about
the leader. In aggregate, that's what's really troubling... really,
really, really troubling. If there are none so blind as those who will
not see, then the blind truly are leading the blind in the disgrace
that is 21st Century America. Easily persuaded by his delusions of god
(God wants me to run for President. I cant explain it, but I sense my
country is going to need me. Something is going to happen... I know
it wont be easy on me or my family, but God wants me to do it......
George W. Bush) and those of his advisors (. He doesn't know very much.
” Richard Perle ), Bush has been little more than a credulous,
exploitable mouthpiece for the Reagan era ideologues and crooks with
which he's surrounded himself. The president of the United States is
little more than an organic ventriloquists dummy with some sort of inexplicable
populist appeal. His stupidity and the tragedy of September Eleventh
have been used to plunge this country into war and insolvency for reasons
neither the president nor his advisors can or will demonstrate. He's
been prepped and coached and used to mutate a great American tragedy
into an instrument of even greater tragedy: September Eleventh/Operation
Iraqi Freedom (or its original name, Operation Iraqi Liberation: O.I.L.
for short). He stood upon the crushed remains of the dead at Ground
Zero, and used his words to seal the fate of more innocents than Osama
(Remember Osama?) had ever dreamed. He stood upon that hallowed ground
and deliberately misled this country into believing he is a great deal
more than the abject incompetent that has characterized every single
one of his prior endeavors. From his Washington easy chair, he's taken
countless lives, while the news tells us only of Michael Jackson, Kobe
Bryant, and a small time (just fourteen) serial killer they call the
Beltway Sniper. There's little time, one must suppose, for news about
the stupid white man I call the Beltway Butcher. Now, while blowing
up two foreign lands, imposing untold suffering on random innocents,
depleting the US Treasury of nearly a trillion dollars, and using the
naiveté, grief, and terror of our own citizens as carte blanche
to advance the agenda of the warmongering lunatics comprising his cabinet,
he is refusing to reveal what is probably the most important part of
a tax-funded report on the events and motivations leading up to the
whole horrific affair. The President of the United States is refusing
to release us a major part of the report we the people have funded and
for which we've been waiting through two of the most divisive and critical
years in our nations history. He is refusing to release to us, huge
sections of the very report justifying or criticizing the greatest act
of faith exhibited by any peoples toward any leader in our combined
national history. He's taken us to war. He's bankrupted us. Our children
are being murdered in foreign streets daily. He's encouraging the loss
of personal freedoms. But no matter how heinous the outrage, we've gone
along with the apparent stupidity out of some sort of patriotic sense
of country. Some might call it fear. Twenty-eight pages, blacked out,
hidden, horded by these tyrants in the used and abused name of security
as the deadline for compliance grows nearer. Why are we allowing it?
How do we know such control of information is not compromising our security?
Where in the hell is the outrage? This is the congressional report on
the events leading up to the September Eleventh attack on our country!
It belongs to every American. What in Gods name has become of us? Consider
how this man's simplistic stupidity led us to this travesty of power.
Bush was told of a New Domino Theory. It went something like this: once
a tyrant or two falls through overwhelming American military force,
democracy would spread through the Mid East country-by-country like
tumbling dominoes. He liked what he heard. With no substantive frame
of reference, the stupid president believed it. Perhaps uncurious George
W. Bush should have read about the old Domino Theory before invoking
the new one. But he acted on his faith a dismal substitute for knowledge
despite that there is no evidence in all of human history to support
such lunacy. Thousands upon thousands died and are dying still. Now
he justifies the bloodshed with sophomoric claptrap. He's already sacrificed
our troops to Afghanistan only to let it fall back into the chaos of
a Taliban controlled heroin capitol of the world. Now, with the place
in a worse shambles than it was when he found it, but with a powerless
American-installed puppet government in place, Dubyas cronies can step
in and build the pipeline from the sea to the Urals that his own father
tried and failed to do by creating the Taliban in the first place. And
finally, with a fresh and unconditional gift of $87 billion additional
tax dollars from our congress, George W. Bush still has time to pull
off this Iraq thing, and in doing so he might actually have his first
success.4 George might actually complete the oil ring, thus showing
his old petrochemical cronies, that despite his decades spent as the
oil executive who never found a drop, and never turned a profit Dubya
can ultimately be remembered as the oil industry's greatest benefactor
since the inventor of gas gouging. The road to ruin has been paved.
We need only keep following it. One year after 17% of voting age Americans
swept this familied neer-do-well into office, a panicked and irrational
electorate swept away our founders and our Constitutions system of checks
and balances by replacing the legislature with an equally frightened
gaggle of primitives, thus leaving the criminal usurpers of the executive
branch free to pillage our nation. They did exactly that. Within two
years the largest federal budget surplus in American history gave way
to the largest government deficit in the history of all the governments
of the world. Nearly a trillion federal tax dollars have vanished since
1999. Where are they? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |