HELIOLITH

I’ve been so crazy busy with school (teaching) that I’ve been slacking on the blogside. I just ran into this link on del.icio.us/popular and it’s really too significant to not blog immediately, even it’s not fresh. Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked

I’m extremely disillusioned that so many U.S. citizens voted for Bush, hacked and fraudlent as his victory may have been (again). Many of his votes weren’t fakes, and that’s what is so depressing. That the public can be so deluded by the charade of U.S. imperialism, nearly half of the country playing sycophants, spoonfed dogma day after day by our pathetic press. Ugh. It Takes me time to process emotion.

Granted, some of the people that voted for the shrub are my closest friends and family! This does make me realize that some people are just going with their impressions from the information they have. But the disjuncture between that information and the reality of perspective is greater than I have ever perceived it to be (isn’t global opinion a reliable indicator of relative subjectivity? (i.e. oust bush)). I really hope that this alleged (and very believable hacking) is exposed by many diverse sources, and blows wide open. If it doesn’t, the infection in our country is likely to fester into severe proportions.

UPDATE: (11/11/04) Wired runs a story today that, “according to academics, the internet pundits are reading the data out of context.” Some of these experts say that they don’t believe Bush won Florida in 2000, but the data from 2004 says that he did. I guess the question is instead as the Daily Mirror suggests, “How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb?”