terrorism is good for us

You know, let's chat for a moment about the Fox humanoids' commentary about the London terror attacks being good for us ("works for us" or at least "time to buy"). [click the Fox links in the post below]. What they mean is found by parsing "us." I actually don't think terrorism is good for "me" (or friends or family or all other humans) and I didn't think "time to buy" or that I was sorry French people weren't killed instead. I'm certainly not one of the "us." I suspect not many of us are us. Kind of like saying that Fox News is news or a Fox journalist is a journalist.

So who are these vile people who think such things? A certain set of Republicans, those nasty cur ones that somehow came to dominate our world, and who want to maintain their status through any means necessary, including celebrating the deaths of over forty people in the UK. One supposes, in the oddest of twists, that it actually might not have "worked" so well for "us" if the victims were French or the folks inside the New York Times building. So, killing French would have been better because they are less us, but bombing us-like Londoners works better.

What else can we say about them (or, rather, "us")? Well, that it's best if those ostensibly closest to us -- such as our allies -- are killed because that "works for us, to our advantage." Now that's a truly odd way to fight a war on terror. It's like strapping a bomb to yourself and saying this works for me. The difference is that the cause of "us" is best advanced by our friends dying rather than ourselves. Otherwise, who would maintain the vacuous feedback loop pomposity of the right? That alternative would be like evolution or natural selection or somethin'. No, the war on terror should be fought by terrorizing ourselves and our best buddies. That's what works, that's intelligent design. It keeps us afraid. And because we're afraid, we're willing to pseudo-justify just about anything, including beating non-us people to death, making them shit all over themselves, and various other forms of humiliation, torture, and murder. We're willing to let loose our bigotry into the public and assume it is right and okay to do so because of the terror through which we terrorize ourselves into our own shitty pants (or at least I know that John Gibson at Fox poops his pants). And that makes for good journalism.

But, of course, it's bigger than Fox journalashmism. "Us" here is an upside-down state of mind and a twisted kind of community -- the administration's meaning of the "everything changed" world turned upside-down by 9-11. Join "us" is the message. Terror is the medium. Islamic fundamentalists do the labor. You're either with us, or you're against us.