Like
Circuses and Zoos, the Carnival of Politics has to be Closed Down for
Humanitarian Reasons
Frank
Zappa came very close to the truth when he said that “Government is
the Entertainment
division of the military-industrial complex” , but not close
enough. The truth is worse.
The
truth is politics is the circus and the zoo of the military
industrial complex.
Some
of the entertainers in the circus have real, unusual skills: like the
acrobats and the tight rope walkers and the jugglers. They are kept
on a tight chain of control.
Then
there are the dangerous animals that have been brutally tamed to do
tricks. They are kept on still shorter and more hobbling chains.
And
then there is the freak show of the horrifically morally retarded,
deformed and those missing moral limbs, who are put before the public
to be laughed at and mocked. They needn't be kept on chains. There is
nowhere for them to go. No one who will hire them but the owners of
the military-industrial complex's circus and zoo.
Like
their counterparts in the circus, they are paid well for making a
spectacle of themselves.
The
very same people who would never mock a physically handicapped
person, think nothing of pointing out politicians' infirmities to
them and laughing at them with superiority. It's not moral. It is
degrading to them and to us alike.
We
have to stop feeding them the peanuts of illusion that they have
power over us to egg them on to do more and worse grotesque tricks
for us.
Circuses
and zoos are cruel. We have to stop feeding the politicians the
peanuts of making them think they have real power over us. They
deserve the same compassion that all of the grossly deformed,
retarded and incapacitated are entitled to.
We
have to set them free and go about the long, difficult task of
rehabilitating them and making them feel Human.
We
have set the animals from the circuses free and we are speaking of
closing all zoos. Some already have been closed. But everyone still
seems to enjoy making a mockery of politicians. They deserve to be
liberated and rehabilitated too.
