maybe it all comes down
to the foul choice between
missions and crusades

i don't believe in foreign missionary work

let alone crusades

but i don't just plan on staying home here
i plan on stopping my fellow countrymen from either type
of project as well....

do you pride yourself on your beliefs that are unbeliefs ?????

like me i'm a proud atheist
thats a belief a faith if you will
that something ...isn't real..... dosen't exist

i also have a belief in the class struggle
and that its laws of motion are discoverable
and decisive in determining the course of social development

i call that a scientific belief
unlike my atheism
its not a matter of faith
not a value
it requires demonstration
it could be proven wrong

my atheism is a value

but my hope for human liberation
in the long run
that's faith
pure conviction
undoubted even
faith in the liberation..self liberation klass liberatian
its inevitale to me
particularly
the liberation
of uzz human kinds
from
our
self inflicted class riven conditions

that faith can't be shaken by set backs

not because of my science

even though that hardly tries to tell me
the number and size of every zig and zag back and forth
between here
and klass liberation
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enough of belief
there's also skepticism

the null hypothesis is a fortress rarely stormed successfully

especially when it comes to righteous interventions

remember "they" want us to be plungers

faith leapers

belief in intentional integrity
faith in justice will out

what if the world don't need our fucking missions

diffidence and empire
don't mix well do they

so give us oh lord more diffidence

one ought to read charles dickens on the noble savage
before one thinks to highly of urban decency as a guide thru
the wilds of ignorance

doubt might prevent a few extra bomber runs

innocent blood and good intentions
don't a tasty cocktail make

no matter how smart the missiles get
u got to know more then you know
to be smart enough about using em

brain surgery is not cannery work is it gang

good intentions leading to bad unintentions

may be far more likely
if u are good intentionaly
following other with a spare set of concealed intentions

the kold war
was built on a convergence of secular beliefs
in a global bogey

the exisytence of this bogey
became
a near secular consensus in fact

well
the benefits acrued not to the billions we count as humantiy

but to the few millions with trans nat portfolios

profit max opportunities
leveraged by use of the republic's credit

in a crusade
forged out of the gulag-death camp story

talk about two headed monsters
one to the right of us and another to the left

and
the greater of these was

the left totalitarian ....errrrr
simply because we blew off the other head

by the early 50's
it became so ...real
you could taste it in the water supply
only to fade into hoakiness by the mid 60's
like big band swing music

but since 9/11 or pearl hrabor II

the notion properly up dated has been revived

we/re expected
to wrestle with that duo again gang
not left right
but inside and outside

creed freaks from the depths of a furious ignorance

christian nuts and muslim nuts

oh what beliefs
built on fear and loathing can do to a person

i'm talking about us here folks
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kool off keep your shirt on

we will survive

even if we leave the rest of the globe to do its own thing

i'm not talking
value relativity
killing is killing

either way
somalia or afghanistan
failed state or taliban state

stay out no boots on the ground

and even worse
bomb rack diplomacy

and why sufficient reason is a narrow one

one even enlightenment types would buy

the inevitable info poverty in our tiny thousands of civil heads

admit it nyt readers
we are rubes too
when it comes to over there
any over there

we are part of the rubery

easy to gull
by clever players on our hot buttons

so
lets raise up
an agnostic barrier

call it the schultz ' i know nothing'
wall of ear wax

cut off our hearing
bind our eyes
if we can't hear
the plees for a white knight
and the call for lady bountiful
might not a humane soul

remain a solemn non interventionist

muscular secularity

st hill as lady TR

we need to meditate long and hard
qui bono apropos dis here packet of value enflaming....." info "

darfur par example
i say
not none of our business
all the world's our business
fortunately or unfortunately

but if the powers inside the beltway won't
kick the problem up stairs to the UN

then the fish has a stinking head

as thinking individuals

all we need do is
count and recount the reasons
we ought not to go out
into the world in quest of "monsters to destroy "

even if you see em mobilizing a plausible posse of the humane
its stuff like that
that gave us 35 extra years of kold war