Friday, February 19, 2010

Suicide Bombers

I opened an email from an old friend retired marine and fellow skeptic of the great vision called the American Dream. It linked to the suicide note and final blogging of Joseph Andrew Stack who self-immolated himself via Cessna and IRS fusion. His pound of flesh he gave away was futile and, to a non-western perspective, just throwing a dead body on the heap he was destined to end up on anyway. His choice was to have one thing he could not be denied. In a time where a man is no longer valued if he can't work, even if it is because he chooses not to take a job someone else will do for less than he does.Which makes America great. It is this necessity to have a good paying job and the lack thereof signifying the endemic injustice now evident in the recession. Stack blamed the IRS or government in general. I have known first hand the pain of losing a job and all that it provides and the stress it creates not only for the worker but also his family and community. No longer welcome in the marketplace of mankind only indebtedness and indentured servitude. We all serve this beast to one degree or another whether through docility, complicity, or acceptance because the system may work for us, so it's OK. It didn't work for Joe. It is not a totality of the American Dream, only the way the masculine has been perverted. What Barbie did for Womankind, GI Joe and Wall Street Ken have done for Mankind. It is our Jihad. As men we lurk behind TV sets and sports while slowly dying inside. Or is it just me? I see a different reason this guy couldn't face life. It wasn't the IRS but it may be injustice nevertheless. So when will we wake up? When will men stop being greedy and beating their wives killing innocent people through industrial warfare against our endless fears, an enemy we haven't a chance of defeating. These men don't want to live with any sense of the connection to their selfishness and its' effect on the rest of the world. This suicide was not a terrorist act. It was an act of cowardice by a man enveloped in fear and powerlessness in a nation where powerless men are worthless.
He was a software engineer and he couldn't program his way into the American Dream.
Application Failure. Happy defragging Mr Stark.

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