Accident

I wanted to post something different from my political grumbles. I will mention one thing however. Now with the Israeli Hezbollah Lebanon war (AKA the 33 day war) in remission, it seems relatively clear that the neoconservatives had a large hand in developing the drive to war for Israel. With Israel's appearance in the Middle East now in retrograde due to its less than convincing "victory", we have a situation where the neocons have backed failed war number two. To those keeping score its neocons 0, Iraq and Hezbollah 2. Considering these same neocons are still pushing for war against Iran, the question becomes, what exactly does it take to get the American population out of its sleepy coma, and into demanding a change in policy direction?

A quote:

"The word accident is from casus, "fall." It echoes the great fall of Adam and Eve and suggests failure, the fall from grace and perfection. It is related to cadence, an ending, which in music and poetry has an important and satisfying aesthetic function. It is also connected to chance, the fall of the dice. All these senses of accident are at work when we pass an overturned truck on the road and can't help twisting our necks to catch sight of this common portion of life. Perhaps ultimately we are attracted to misfortune because it is a figuration of Death, whom we usually deny and yet with whom we have an intimate relationship." From the book 'Dark Eros' by Thomas Moore

Painting by Picasso