I AWAKEN & QUIP

You know what's great? That feeling in the morning when you know, without a doubt, that it's crispy and chilly OUTSIDE your toasty cocoon of blankets. And you're awake and not planning to go back to sleep, and you just stay there, thinking about everything. You don't get out of bed -not because it's cold outside, but because it's warm INSIDE. Yeah, I like that, did that this morning. It was great.
So I read some news story where Dick Cheney had all these mean things to say recently. It really came as little surprise because he has always LOOKED to me like someone filled with bitterness and unrequited love or something. He comes off as the archetypal greedy, businessman, who seems to stop at nothing to conquer people, things, etc. Think 'Boss Hog,' but an intellectual titan. And he's missing the long, black moustache -waxed and curled at the ends- and the stovepipe hat and the long black cloak. The news never shows Cheney laughing nasally while tying screaming women to the railroad tracks, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. He's got the snarl, though, and that's something (a clue to his character, perhaps?) that can't be obscured, no matter how far you put him behind the Presidential podeum.
Regardless of any premonition I may have had about Cheney, the man, and besides the fact that I actually felt somewhat GLAD to see Cheney honestly BE the monster I suspected he was, the article just me off. Where has Cheney been for the past four years? He's been HIDING of course, hiding while running the Administration -for the most part because he comes off as such a scroogey, villainous character.
The government, naturally wants people to LIKE it, to TRUST it. So they put out a friendly, cute one (Bush) and dressed him up in various costumes, in a timely way, and gave him words to say that sounded good -which too many people mindlessly seemed to gobble up like a Thanksgiving turkey.
And I guess what's truly curious to me, about this particular Administration, is that it was so scientifically structured. The humans involved used so many basic propaganda-based formulas to get in office and get accepted and allowed to facilitate hugely important resources. Nevermind that it's so transparent they have such narrow, chiefly materialistic concerns. They used the science of propaganda and war to sculpt a particular following. Thay succeeded quite well. For that reason, I am impressed. I just wish they'd use their influence more wisely. I just wish they would be even more obvious about what they want, stop hiding behind .
If they truly spoke what they believed in, without resorting to group identifications (i.e. "Republican" "Conservative"), I wonder how many people would go along with their schemes? That goes for ALL politicians. What if people ran on a platform based on what they thought was important, rather than a very specific, already entirely predictable thought system?