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About this episode

What could go wrong praying to the Gods of Algebra? I pray, now, to the Algebraic Gods and they tell me that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So I claim that the gangs in Moscow and the tyrants of China are now on the side of justice, then they give me their poisoned blessing when I threaten to destroy Iran. What can go wrong saying "the international community expects...", when you mean "we, the tyrants of the land, demand..."? What could go wrong celebrating that the corrupt figurehead-scapegoat is now "black" instead of "white"? What could go wrong ignoring that "no option is off the table" (- Obama) is a euphemism for "preemptive nuclear strike"? What could go wrong designing international-policy by the precarious code of "Might Makes Right"? What could go wrong pretending that you have the option to "change the system from within" when patriotism necessitates your complicity in terrorism? What could go wrong ignoring that, in the 2008 United States presidential elections, you had a choice between war... and war? What could go wrong being swallowed by the distractions of "gay marriage" and the skin-tone of a puppet? What could go wrong being swallowed by the distractions of celebrities and their nonsense? What could go wrong being swallowed by the distractions of your cowardice, fear, and apathy? And speaking of apathy: notice that, now, Buddhism, Taoism, Yoga, et cetera are becoming the religions-of-choice for the well-fed cowards in our culture. With these religions, the well-fed cowards can comfortably pretend that their cowardice and apathy is zen: "You create the world around you, so it is their own fault, if those Iraqi children and Iranian children choose to be slaughtered rather than live in comfortable suburbs, in the U.S. - living safely and contently, while tube-fed lies about the tyranny of U.S. foreign policy." This is the subtext of the mantra of the cowards in our culture.

• Release Date

  Nov 28, 2009

• Runtime

  05:49