ah, fellowship
religious fundamentalism has (almost) always been propagated in the united states, at least since Manifest Destiny. its form in the u.s. is of the christian variety but of course, as hypocrisy is characteristic of fundamentalism, it fights other fundamentalisms because they are the "wrong" ones.this is so eloquently evidenced today by Mr. Prince and his goons.
so if this has been going on forever, i suppose i shouldn't be worried that doctors are being assassinated by the "pro-life" movement or that town halls are unusually rowdy these days or that those protecting u.s. officials in their imperial adventures overseas are murderers (ref: Nisoor Square) or that those leading the war on drugs don't in fact want it to end because they are the very drug smugglers (ref: Colombia, Mexico, Charles Bowden, the Taliban, the CIA, etc) because it has always been this way and the world hasn't spontaneously combusted yet with the hypocrisy that rules her so maybe it won't, in my lifetime at least, and everything is going to be just fine.
but as a young person, it's hard to have historically-lived perspective (i can have historically-read perspective) and so i do worry. and while news of The Family doesn't surprise me in the least, it still scares me. things like "biblical capitalism" scare the hell out of me.
i wrote something else but i'll save it for later because i realized i got myself into a more complicated situation than i intended. so for now...i leave it at that.
posted by leah v @ 9:03 PM
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