קורט וונגוט

 

מאמר פנינתי בגארדיאן,קורט וונגוט –

וונגוט מספר שנשאל פעם על ידי מפיק תוכנית ריאליטי אם יש לו רעיון למשהו מפחיד באמת –

תשובתו היתה – "סטודנטים בינוניים בוגרי ייל".

 

הוא ממשיך ומאפיין את המנהיגות הנוכחית של ארצות הברית –

 

George W Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences. To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete's foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr Hervey Cleckley, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia, published in 1941. Read it! Some people are born deaf, some are born blind or whatever, and this book is about congenitally defective human beings of a sort that is making this whole country and many other parts of the planet go completely haywire nowadays. These were people born without consciences, and suddenly they are taking charge of everything. PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose! And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And they are waging a war that is making billionaires out of millionaires, and trillionaires out of billionaires, and they own television, and they bankroll George Bush, and not because he's against gay marriage. So many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick. They have taken charge. They have taken charge of communications and the schools, so we might as well be Poland under occupation.

 

 

המבשר, איור של וונגוט

 

 

Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own? הנשיא שלנו הוא נוצרי ? גם אדולף היטלר היה נוצרי. מה אפשר להגיד לצעירים שלנו, עתה כאשר הפסיכופטים, כלומר, האנשים הללו נטולי המצפון, נטולי כל חוש של רחמים או בושה, לקחו את כל הכסף באוצרי הממשלה והתאגידים שלנו, והפכו אותו לשלהם ?

 

 

קונפטי, קורט וונגוט

 

 

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