Asessing Idiots: Usuability

After I got out of college and dried out a little, a began reading. Things I had always wondered about began to find their appropriate context in the world of ideas. As it went, I continued running up against this thing called "Socialism" that I had never heard anyone discuss. After I exhausted Wikipedia on the subject, I faced up to the horse and read The Communist Manifesto. It was the second serious book I ever read on my own. It was the most enlightening thing I could have hoped to do; I understood.

Everything it said was the logical conclusion of so many thoughts I had had before. Why hadn't it worked? More reading... I had heard about a man named Willie Munzenberg who was the Comintern's chief propagandist (the Communist version of Goebbels). That's how I came across The New Criterion: an article titled Lying For Turth: Willi Munzenburg and the Comintern (It used to be available on their website but I can't find the link now). It showed how deep the Communist propoganda machine had been embedded in world affairs to a level I had only imagined. It was an actual conspiracy. I had imagined something of the sort before: what would need to happen for the world to be perfect? I had my ideas, but here was there actual implementation. Marvelous. My ideas weren't original; I was just getting the hint.

From TNC I learned of the ideological connection between Socialism and things I have hated my entire life: (post)modern art, modern architecture, anything with with "social" as a prefix or "studies" as a suffix, etc, etc. I came to understand contradictions of such worldviews; contradictions so conspicuous as to become innocuous. I became furious that there was an entire well-defined "ideology" that people use to justify intentionally creating the things that were a catalyst for so much of the anxiety and nihilism of my younger years. That no one in any position of authority over me had ever bothered to mention the things I saw as immensely important rubbed me incredibly raw. Not jsut that, but apparently I was part of the problem...

Which brings me to the point of this post. Everyone knows about Obama's (alleged, HA!) kick-off party in Billy Ayers living room. Yah, he bombed stuff and wishes he did more. But what was his rationale? Misguided SDS member? Well, yah... but is that it? NO. Ayers stands for everything I hate in the world, EVERY-THING. If I was ever made aware of the fact I was in the same room with such an individual, I'd get a chance to fulfill all the fantasies of violence which "occasionally" hijack my mind; those which I've been told are probably "an issue".

Forget how close they were or how well Obama knew him, even though the evidence points to very well. Ayers is a Communist (or is it communist? Does it matter? No) plain and simple. I'll leave it to the reader to learn of the connections between the two, they are too extensive to mention here. Obama is either an active subversionary or the most useful idiot in the history of the world, beyond the use of those "idiots" by the Comitern all those years ago. Ayers plan to stop bombing and work on "organizing" communities has worked better than they could have ever imagined. So, which is it? I'm pretty confident it is the latter, but again, does it matter?