Ever watch a leaf
drift slowly to earth? zigzagging and wafting back and forth until it finally comes to rest on the ground (or, more inevitably, in your gutter?)
Pascal and I, in conversation last night, discuss that pattern of movement, and a way it is used by politicians to make themselves part of the ruling elite.
He points to Stelvio. This is a picture of Stelvio pass, in the Italian Alps.
See the way the road drifts lazily from left to right, never really gaining altitude very much in any single triangulation, but climbing the whole hill before it’s over? Think of this as Obama’s Ramp of Equivocation. He appears to drift gently from left to right, never going far enough to be blocked or lose headway, but gaining ground with each zigzag back and forth. before you know it, all the tiny gains he makes at each equivocation put him at the top of the pass, and while this is a dangerous place to be, where you can’t get food or water or anything without a HUGE support group, as Pascal points out,
“The defining characteristic of contemporary state employees is a willingness to obey orders, however horrific the consequences to human beings”
Another of the millions of examples where the natural world forces humans to make a pattern that is echoed in other patterns of human behavior.
P.S. Stelvio is also the name of a way cool Moto Guzzi. Imagine how it must rock to take a guzzi, roaring and howling, up that pass?
One can only hope that in the case of BHO he goes like the “Candle In The Wind.”
To be more precise, this was my description of “Progressives” as a whole. They swing a bit left, a bit right, attempting to give the appearance of centrality, but all along they are increasing their personal elevation. When one or more of their point men go too far, they throw them over the side and take that opportunity to switchback (as those road cuts are called).
I think a case can be made that Obama as the most radical progressive yet. I think also that belies how far from the Right all the other “Progressives” are standing, as most of us clearly see with John McCain.
The Progressives seem poised to let Obama throw himself off at some extreme yet to be reach. That is where he will have gone too far to switch back. I just hope he does it too late for another less radical “Progressiva” to step in to take his place before the general election.
Why not post that other photo too Og? The one that gives us the elitist’s eye view of us ants they think they left down in the pit.
Moto Guzzi and that road…heaven!
If I saw McCain or Obama along that road I’d run ’em off it.
Here’s a smaller version from near the top.
http://www.churly.co.uk/stedown.jpg
Thanks, Pascal. Good photo.
Reminds me of those Aztec temples- the ones they could roll the bodies down, wihtout them sticking on the steps.
Well that’s quite a coincidence. “Progressives” (whose green agenda worries about an overabundance of us “carbon dioxide sources”) remind me of those Aztec priests.
Guzzi? No way a KLR! With Knobbies!