In Reality
It is being widely said that R. Reagan, a man who held the office of U.S. President in the 1980's, died recently.
This is a case of yet another loose use of language, for the term "died" had reference only to the final cessation of operation of his heart, lungs, and some other organs. In all the ways that distinguished R. Reagan from being more than just a collection of body parts suffering from lack of a functioning control system, he had already died long ago, and it happened at several different times, in several different ways.
The first occurred when he drained his sensibility of nearly every drop of its former humanity -- or 96.25 percent of it anyway -- by switching his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.
His next demise took place when he left political life, to the great sadness of some and to the great relief of others. Then -- directly at least -- he could no longer have the often deleterious effect that he had been having in the office of President. He was certainly a great boon to the Republican party, but that in itself was an extreme disservice to the rest of the country, especially in its balance sheets and in its shift closer to being a police state.
His third and by far really final death happened when -- as if having in mind his lack of sympathy toward AIDs sufferers -- the Life Force dropped over him the terrible veil of another highly dreadful ailment, Alzheimers, and on that account sympathy was due to him and even more to his wife and children and other loved ones.
From that moment on R. Reagan was like an aerial balloon that gradually loses its helium and keeps collapsing until eventually it becomes just a limp pile of material on the ground, useful -- if that can be said -- only for continuing a process that actually began years ago, namely being cut up into bits and pieces to be recycled for other unfortunate excursions through the political smog by others of his sad persuasion.
This is a case of yet another loose use of language, for the term "died" had reference only to the final cessation of operation of his heart, lungs, and some other organs. In all the ways that distinguished R. Reagan from being more than just a collection of body parts suffering from lack of a functioning control system, he had already died long ago, and it happened at several different times, in several different ways.
The first occurred when he drained his sensibility of nearly every drop of its former humanity -- or 96.25 percent of it anyway -- by switching his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.
His next demise took place when he left political life, to the great sadness of some and to the great relief of others. Then -- directly at least -- he could no longer have the often deleterious effect that he had been having in the office of President. He was certainly a great boon to the Republican party, but that in itself was an extreme disservice to the rest of the country, especially in its balance sheets and in its shift closer to being a police state.
His third and by far really final death happened when -- as if having in mind his lack of sympathy toward AIDs sufferers -- the Life Force dropped over him the terrible veil of another highly dreadful ailment, Alzheimers, and on that account sympathy was due to him and even more to his wife and children and other loved ones.
From that moment on R. Reagan was like an aerial balloon that gradually loses its helium and keeps collapsing until eventually it becomes just a limp pile of material on the ground, useful -- if that can be said -- only for continuing a process that actually began years ago, namely being cut up into bits and pieces to be recycled for other unfortunate excursions through the political smog by others of his sad persuasion.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 7:47 AM
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