No Opposition To Me!
6-4-99
Hello, I'm mejeffdorchen, and welcome to the moment of truth, the moment of gleaming electromagnetic cutlery that slices through the jugular of the crap-filled capitalist media corpus.
Well, folks, I have to admit, I haven't had a decent idea for the moment of truth for a few weeks now. You know it and I know it. I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels.
Every once in a while I get like this. Nothing makes me sit up and take notice anymore, I've said my piece, I've told the truth, I've put it out there, dropped my spoor on the wind, as it were, added my two cents, and now I feel I've arrived at the point at which most revolutionary women and men usually don't arrive until quite late in life. I've achieved that reflective vantage point from which we historical figures survey our body of work and say to ourselves, "I've done my best. I've said my piece, I've told the truth, I've put it out there, dropped my spoor on the wind, as it were, added my two cents, and now I feel I've arrived at the point at which most revolutionary women and men usually don't arrive until quite late in life. I've achieved that reflective vantage point from which we historical figures survey our body of work and say to ourselves, ŒI've done my best. I've said my piece, I've told the truth, I've put it out there, dropped my spoor on the wind, as it were, added my two cents --'"
Basically, I've interpreted reality according to a critical view of society that I think most people can understand. And, much to my satisfaction, there's been very little back-talk about it. No one's come forth to rebut my simple and straightforward assertions about what society's problems are. No one has brought forth any evidence against my analysis concerning the mechanisms of grossly unequal wealth distribution and how they create and perpetuate most of our social ills for the benefit of the financial ruling class. The Democrats just blather on about this and that, the Republicans aren't even that in touch with reality, they still think history is over; the libertarians can only muster up some ridiculous plan calling for us to model a corporate society on the Medieval European feudal system. The fascists just keep saying their stupid fascist stuff, the rich people just keep saying the same stupid things.
Of course, there has been some plaintive whining. I heard this one guy go, "But it's fun to be rich." Yeah, well, so – it's not fun to be poor. So what's your point? How is that any kind of challenge to my arguments?
Oh, and there was the one guy who asked Chuck, "What is that Moment of Truth guy, anyway? Some kind of socialist?"
Well, let me say this: if it's socialist to decry the inequities in our global culture; if it's socialist to criticize the media's stake in maintaining the status quo; if it's socialist to conclude that the US health care system is neither healthy nor caring; if it's socialist to point out that the governments of the world are becoming more and more beholden to the capitalist elite; if it's socialist to state that war only benefits the makers of weapons and the speculators in the global markets; if it's socialist to cry out against the exploitation of the workers; if it's socialist to to swarm down from the mountainside and overthrow the emperor, to wear army fatigues, a beard and smoke a cigar, to pound a shoe on the table and shout "We will bury you!" – in short, if it's socialist to care enough to probe for the truth against the will of the capitalist rulers and their brown-nosing media commissars, to find the truth, and to have the goddam guts to tell the truth, then by god, I just might be a socialist – but not the kind you're probably thinking of.
But aside from the whining rich guy and the question about socialism, no one has really come forward to challenge or rebut me in any way. And there are three possible reasons for this. Number one, we on this show don't really give people an opportunity to rebut the Moment of Truth. Well, that's not true. You can call in or email us and I will promptly disregard whatever stupid assertions you make. Number two, maybe no one really gives a crap what I say. Again, I must rule this out as impossible. If the people of the earth care one eighth as much about my social critique as I do, then they care plenty.
The third and most likely reason no one has brought forward any remotely cogent critique of my graceful and incisive essays is that there simply can be no remotely cogent critique of my graceful and incisive essays. Capitalism's indefensibility in the face of The Truth renders even its most loudmouthed defenders speechless for the three paltry minutes I am allotted to disseminate the simple news that reality is in fact real, people do in fact have worthy motivations beyond simple greed, and that greed is not only not a good way to motivate distribution of resources to where they are needed to make society healthy, it is in fact the main reason why resources are usually directed elsewhere. It's a simple and clear idea I've expressed in as many different ways as the year has weekends, and it's obviously so self-evident that it has stymied the mustering of any and all philosophical opposition to its grace and incisiveness.
No wonder I've grown so complacent. The quality of reactionary scum out there in radioland has hit a new low. Madeline Albright in a flight jacket? Israeli settlers of the West Bank trying to justify their actions? Slobidan Milosevic? Bill Clinton? George Bush? George Bush? Liddy Dole? George Will? Danesh D'Souza? Ollie North? Ross Perot? Steve Forbes? William F. Buckley? Henry Kissinger? Do you not, as I do, picture a throng of brightly attired circus clowns flapping their arms and squawking like geese?
I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe oppression and mass murder and censorship and torture and hypocrisy and lying and corruption and violence and engineered poverty, neglect and starvation are actually good things. Maybe that's why there's so much of them. I don't know. But if so, if I'm wrong, won't you fascist pigs find one among who can express your philosophy in a coherent way so that I will be turned from my folly and join you in supporting every human evil that can be imagined? Please? I await your answer.
Until then, this has been mejeffdorchen with the Moment of Truth.
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