Hi Joe,
First of all, I would like to commend you for your writing. I love it. I am a fellow product of what I call white trash resentment and I come from generations of deep East Texas mean. Your articles remind me so much of my family. They are the same pissed off, ignorant white trash that fought their way from Virginia, through the Appalachians, to East Texas. Like you, I am torn between love and disgust with my people.
However, I am more disgusted by 97-pound, poetry-quoting liberals, calling for revolution from their $2,000 a month apartment, paid for by their oil executive father, than fat rednecks named "Beast" who regularly get drunk, stand up in the middle of the bar, smash their bottle on the table and scream, "I would rather fight than fuck!"
I admire my people's toughness but am disgusted with their ignorance. They have been the pit bulls for the elite throughout the history of this country, but have nothing to show for it but drugs and video games to keep them occupied between wars. There is an excellent book about our people called Born Fighting by James Webb that pretty much explains it all, even thought the dumb fuck author doesn't really understand the implications of what he is saying. That idiot glorifies being tools of the elite. Instead of attacking the people keeping us down, we take out our frustrations on the people the elite are shitting on more than us, unwittingly helping to protect the elite's interests.
Most of my family is Southern Baptist or Pentecostal and 100% of them think that I am going to hell. I was lucky to be blessed with curiosity and got myself educated, but I still struggle with my White Trash Resentment. Although I am not poor and stuck in Bum Fuck, East Texas, I hate rich people. I hate how they have taken advantage of my people's stupidity. One day, I hope to make them pay. I know it is their own fault for letting themselves be manipulated, but it still pisses me off because they are my people and I love them. Like you, when I try and help my people and explain things to them, they shit all over me and think that I am a goddam terrorist loving liberal. It is a tough spot to be in and your writings totally hit home with me.
One question I have for you is -- Do you think that this whole "War on Terror" is an excuse to secure resources? I think that 9/11 was an inside job to give the neocons an excuse to attack Iraq. If I am not mistaken, I have never read your views on this.
I was struck by a letter I read on your website referring to a Jungian analysis of Bush by Paul Levy. I read the analysis and I found it to be complete horseshit typical of liberals. I can't stand to read anything that starts from the premise that Bush doesn't understand what he is doing, that his illness causes him, inadvertently, to create more terrorists. It is his illness that makes him INTEND to create more terrorists. The more terrorists, the more votes for him. The more terrorists from countries that have oil - the better the excuse to go and take that oil. Every time Bush is in trouble, his buddy Osama comes out with another video tape.
If we don't nuke everybody when we run out of cheap oil and are living off of the soil again, I will be in deep East Texas, sitting under a pine tree with Uncle Ferdy drinking. He will be telling me about how "egg-headed college boys" fucked everything up. Then the mobs from Houston will come and try to raid our fields. I will die just like my ancestors did -- as a buffer between the rich gated community down by the lake and the starving mob from Houston.
Regards,
Rooster
Houston, Texas
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Hey Rooster,
You ask if I think that this whole "War on Terror" is an excuse to secure resources?
ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY! We are the biggest oil addicts on the planet.
Every president since Truman has had the secret advisory about the diminishment of oil, but none has had thye guts to go public and ask the American people to sacrifice. A pitfall of democracy or a gutlessness of the political elite. Persponally, I believe most people are good, unless totally brainwashed as in the case of Americans.
Otherwise, why does the rest of the world choose to endorese the Kyoto Agreement?
Joe
