Got Me Thinking

I saw two movies this weekend, but I'll leave the most recent for another post. Both made me question the foundation on which I have built my beliefs. Suddenly I feel like I may have to start over. Am I becoming like my father, someone to be labeled a conspiracy theorist, easily disregarded by people like myself, people who haven't figured it out yet?

I have a very serious job. Not the bullshit I do from 7 to 4. No. The job I speak of is the one I do at night when I set the table, clean up after dinner, run the bath, read stories, rush between tee-ball and soccer. To do that job properly is to acquaint myself with the reality of life, how things are run, how things get done. I'm starting to realize that I don't know a thing, and neither does the media--not the media I listen to, not the media that I read.

George Clooney has not been my favorite person. Like most conservatives, I pretty much had him pegged as a looney leftist, who should just shut the cake hole, look pretty and yell "Roll 'em!" Syriana changed that for me.

I'm definitely not going to be running with Cindy Sheehan anytime soon, and I'm not ready to declare Iraq a quagmire or another Vietnam. But let this be my notice to the world: I will be looking real close at the whole situation in the Middle East with a different set of glasses than I have been wearing. And before you think my polarity has been totally switched, just know this: I can't think of a single politician of either party that I believe in my heart prioritizes the concerns of every-day Americans.

One of these days I'll have it figured out. A Eureka! moment just before I flatline perhaps, but there has to be a solution. How is it that we are all screaming No Amnesty and Enforce the Borders, and yet, bills in congress are poised to actually pass? Can you tell me how this is even possible?

Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage. I didn't write that, in case you're wondering.

Can the internet solve this somehow? By circumventing the bottleneck that keeps valuable information from us. Syriana is basically saying that we kill foreign leaders that don't agree with our demands until one is left standing that plays ball with our government. Not so hard to imagine really. I begrudgingly admit that this sounds and awful lot like, you are either with us or against us.

I'm pissed and tired, and feeling helpless. Perhaps tomorrow I will play the glad game. Until then, well, see you then.