Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Next, Let the Prisoners Loose

Jon Stewart reviews the thinking behind the Air Force 1 "photo op" over the canyons of New York City here.

The word from the White House is that I Won was "furious". About what? Doesn't say. Perhaps that more people weren't panicking?

Power is a funny thing: you think you can, but you can never get enough of it.

In Girardian terms, the sacrificial preparation needs as much tumult as possible for a successful sacrificial denouement to occur.

I'd love to say that all this is coincidental, but the primitive sacred has a very predictable gradient. And when you have a puer in the most powerful seat of authority in the world. Hoo-boy ...

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