so george k ain't no henry k
so fuckin what
and here i am
reading some some ghosty pentagon type guy
as he dumps out
this stu-pudly "wistful"
pile
of late kennan
canned crab apples
--------------------------------------------------
shit
what
ambasador kold crum here
really needs
iz a brutal
gasoline fueled
death bed blazer .......
well
I'll do no such thing
to any man
but i'll do my best .....
===================================================
- -----------here's the crux of the cop out -----------
" kennan came to regret
the concrete outcomes
of specific initiatives
he once championed"
" in particular
Political warfare
against the Soviet Union
through covert armed operations "
" he claimed later
it was none other
then he Kennan himself
who initiallyin 1948
proposed
"the inauguration of covert political warfare"
-------------bad means to a good end
that spread
in less then 5 years
from the ukraine
to the ends
of the earth -----------
kennan 1948 :
"The time is now fully ripe
for the creation
of a covert
political warfare
operations directorate
within the US government,"
------------- yes when his chance came
he served his purpose
to the system
when the time
was " fully ripe"
for him and his ideas
he gavethem
what they wanted
---------------------
" in 1975
came Kennan's melancholy public admission
that his political warfare idea
was
"the greatest mistake I ever made."
---------------- what in gods name does this change ?------------
------------------------
" de mortuis nil nisi bonum "?
sure
fine with me
but
note well
kennan's tale
proves "the system"
needs no one for very long
like a lung cell
guys like that
arrive on the scene
do their bit
and then get hoiked out
and after the deed is doneand the bums on the sidewalk
who the fuck
(still insaide)
cares one fiddle stick
what" the doer "
personally feels about itnow -----------------
------------in fact
who in power
fears
an after all "je regret"
nothin like that
can ever
keep the latest lot
of up and comers
away
from mephisto's planning boards -----------------
"As a sensitive and reflective man
kennan
was capable of learning"
----------- so what the fat was in the fryer
and he helped throw it there
learn from mistakes ?
sure some do
but their never
still there
the next time
------------------
" Although he was
the archetypal cold warrior
at the beginning....
very early on
he saw the light "
---------- so he had a george ball stage great -------------
" in the mid 50's
His memoranda
were disregarded
by John Foster Dulles
and the rest
of the American Century crowd"
-------------- exactly
by the way
notice he none the less
made no
timely
ellsberg exit "with papers" -----------
"Above all, Kennan
was a realist
and a cultural pessimist"
------------ "a realist"
what in fuck does this mean?
james baker is" a realist" too
he just
still likes the thick of the hunt
more then
the compfy club chair "--------------
" to this architect
of the cold war
( containments "ed " teller )
our present day rally line
"USA Number One"
struck kennan as
" unthought-through,
vainglorious
and undesirable."
------------
ah what diction
oh but if.....
imagine
if
our
cardinal kennanhere
had ever found
a proper louis
not just
a harry an ike and then considerably worse..... -----------
--------------------------------------------
but what of the man himself....
"he deplored
the automobile,
computers,
commercialism,
environmental degradation,
and other manifestations
of modern life,
and
he loathed
popular American culture."
qed
----------- by the end....
this shit's
become
the prefect picture .....
of that all seasons type
the affluent
joyously self satisfied
doom and gloomer
one of
the least dangerous
of all the species
of the great american
spectator klass
( " oh jeeves
could you come in here
a mo please .....
right ahh
well jeeves ....."
oh wait....
i've gone and
left you sort
behind the cue here
haven't I
well you see
its last tuesday and
I'M
STUCK in a bit of ....
and all the way up past my ...
yes
the stuff that adheresis beyond mere abourning
well passed it in fact
to
what my old schoolmate
taffy tubwright
used to call
'a regular jam sandwich '
and what manner of brutish thing be it ?
well its more in the manner
of a where then a what
more a where to
as in
where to put
as in
where
the duce to put
my copy
of old George K .......
i mean where to put same
back on the shelf wise
and imagine that
after all
where
in the name of
flying frogs legs
does
a two stage cove
like he belong. anyway...?
thus our in media res
and
now picking backup
where we notice
the play-writes crb
'enter jeeves....'
with his usual prepared fully
but reserved perfectly ....
"yes sir....."
and i
most iago like
here
try to pass
the old knotty
right on to
thatconsummit gentlemens hero ...
needleess to say
sure
he'll make
mere mice playout of it ...
i mean this
der meister mind himself....
i tread casually ...
"oh would you
be so good
as to put george here
away for me ..."
" and that would be
where sir....?"
errggg
isn't that just like his sort
a double dome on his neck
bigger
then all out doors
and yet
he still must force the obvious
vexing
confession......
'oh dash if i know
jeeves
you're the chap with the fish fed brain
try waving it some here "
" yes sir...
perhaps if i might suggest sir...."
"yes ...go on "
"perhaps
we might put
our mr kennan
up there
with
the minor deceased snobs sir..."
yes yes of course the snobs jeeves
why i hardly pay you such god wages for that
brass door knob...."
" the minor deceased snobs .....
of letters sir....."
dash his brilliance
" aaahh of letters..."
"why thats exactly it
jeeves
splendid
no beyond splendidmagical
in fact i'd wager
it soars so highamong bright ideas
the word
miraculous
hardly catches
its trailing toe ....
jeeves what can i say
you've done it again...."
"we try to please sir "
if thats not the authentic
tickee poo
i'll bite my aunt agatha in the ...."
" thank you sir "
" yes yes yes
jeeves you're a frost giant
in a winged collar....
we''l simply
straight off
forget all that
fishy bit early on
the blood spattered walls
the knives in the night
skip em
like a latin 5 unseen
and shelve him with
ah ah ..."
" may i suggest
the mid sized
genteel yankee sour balls sir.."
" of course
the genteel...what was it
"the genteel yankee sour balls sir...
mid size divisionsir "
" yes yes yes
spot on jeeves
spot the fuck on ...." )
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