2008 Woodie Awards
The Rooster Has Yet to Crow
Jason Lusthaus
Issue date: 2/4/05 Section: Commentary
Evidenced by the front page of the last edition of the Maroon-News, the Colgate community seems to be hooked on a drug; is there someone not caught up in the ecstasy of the tsunami relief effort? I, for one, cannot wait for the exciting and enjoyable fundraising events that have no doubt been concocted. Drugs, even the best ones (the transparent effectors), are merely temporary distractions; in all of our fun over the latest catastrophe, we are failing to see that under the inspired leadership of George W. Bush, our great epic is ending. Are Bush and his disciples the only ones who see the liberation in scaling back aid, who are working toward our eternal salvation?
Even the Colgate Republicans aren't keeping the faith. Not a word of support from them in favor of their Commander's Holy vision. The crackpots and scientists who point to the events of the tsunami as evidence of our end times are, in a reverse sense, correct. The tsunami and the relief effort are obstructing, not heralding, the coming of the end. Rather, the Western dream of an end, an end President Bush feels compelled to bring about. In order to understand the Bush Administration's decision to cut aid to the tsunami victims, we must first look at the rallying cry for his War, engage in the necrophilic orgy of history before returning to the sadistic one at hand.
Suppose, for a moment, 9/11 was the means to our end. The modern age saw rise to notions of an international community and, subsequently, international aid. The West created for itself the role of a proud, big brother cradling his baby brother. A whimsical, if not absurd scene. However, like with siblings, the bigger comes to envy the vulnerable, careless position of the smaller. The illusion of power and nurture becomes exhausted (and exhausting) after a while. In this sense, the west led by the United States, has trapped itself in a position of empty strength and hellish progressivism. To upset this balance and to completely absolve the positions of the strong and the tragic set in our history, a tragedy of tragedies needs to occur: the destruction of the West.
Even the Colgate Republicans aren't keeping the faith. Not a word of support from them in favor of their Commander's Holy vision. The crackpots and scientists who point to the events of the tsunami as evidence of our end times are, in a reverse sense, correct. The tsunami and the relief effort are obstructing, not heralding, the coming of the end. Rather, the Western dream of an end, an end President Bush feels compelled to bring about. In order to understand the Bush Administration's decision to cut aid to the tsunami victims, we must first look at the rallying cry for his War, engage in the necrophilic orgy of history before returning to the sadistic one at hand.
Suppose, for a moment, 9/11 was the means to our end. The modern age saw rise to notions of an international community and, subsequently, international aid. The West created for itself the role of a proud, big brother cradling his baby brother. A whimsical, if not absurd scene. However, like with siblings, the bigger comes to envy the vulnerable, careless position of the smaller. The illusion of power and nurture becomes exhausted (and exhausting) after a while. In this sense, the west led by the United States, has trapped itself in a position of empty strength and hellish progressivism. To upset this balance and to completely absolve the positions of the strong and the tragic set in our history, a tragedy of tragedies needs to occur: the destruction of the West.