What if they gave a convention and nobody came…

What if they gave a convention and nobody came… September 12, 2008
Filed under: MN, On Culture, On Media, politics — Chris @ 6:34 am

What if they gave a convention and no one came,
Well ok a lot of people came, and then they left.
Damn Hurricane Gustav, and by hurricane I mean the hurricane formerly known as Gustav now just a tropical depression.
I had a tropical depression once, it was in Key West, I cured it by getting drunk at strip clubs…. of course that might not work in this case.
So
No Chenney
No Bush at least not in person,
Surprisingly little McCain
A lot of journalists with an overly tapped story,
A lot of protestors looking for something to protest.
You did get Fred Thompson, which was nice; He’s my favorite actor/ politician now that guy who played Gopher on the Love Boat is no longer in the game
And somewhere Sarah Palin is drooling of a map of the Alaskan oil preserve while a campaign worker cobbles away at her wikkipedia entry
Meanwhile the news media keeps talking about “Anarchists” and their secret cabal, and all their organizations, aren’t anarchists by definition going to have a problem with. You know organizing….
Since when did we fear anarchists anyway, it’s been at least 100 years since anarchists held any sort of serious social status, I always figure modern day anarchy to be like socialism was in the 80’s You did it for a week or two till you moved onto the next youth trend for me it was “Frankie Goes to Hollywood”.
Maybe if the called them aging hippies, and punk kids who work at Co-op’s they wouldn’t be so frightening, or then again maybe they would.
Thing is the anarchists are scared: they think their world is going to hell and they need to do something about it. So they make signs and chant, and some of them get out of hand and do something stupid
The cops are scared they think their world is going to hell and they need to do something about it so they work proactively to keep the peace and some of them get out of hand and do something stupid
The city is scared they think their world is going look bad on TV and they need to do something about it so they work extra hard to maintain order and some of them get out of hand and do something stupid
Joe public is scared they think their world is going to hell because they see anarchist antics, and   police fierceness and they don’t need to do anything about it because it will just work itself out so they watch “CSI Somethingorother” until the whole stupid thing is over.
It’s seems to me that fear is a lousy method of making choices.
It is all very divisive, but isn’t that the point. It’s hard to win when you have no one to be against.
Of course in life you can’t  “win” anything, the reward comes in the playing.
Sort of like slot machines, where statistically you’re guaranteed to lose 15%, yet people keep playing, absolutely convinced they are winning.
Guess it’s a matter of perspective.
Given that we live on a globe, left, eventually becomes right and vice-versa, perspective can be hard to attain or for that matter maintain.
Anyway I should go, CSI is starting in a minute,
Xo
c