What can be going through a deer's mind just before the deer goes through the windshield? The dazzle? Something so bright that it overwhelms the flight impulse which always comes before the fight reaction? The tendency of deer to freeze when caught in the sudden glare of an oncoming disaster is so well recognized that it has evolved into the familiar catch phrase; a phase used for any life situation in which the threat is so overwhelming and sudden that no survival reaction is possible. Instead, the animal remains rooted in place -- nailed to its perch, as it were.
We now see this dreaded situation acted out daily along the Information Highway where an increasingly large number of our fellow citizens have assumed this dazed position on the highway of history. They seem surprisingly content to stand spot-welded to the tarmac as the glare of ruin and the promise of destruction rolls towards them, air horn suspiciously silent.
Some people think the deer are not innocent when they step into the headlights. Some people think the deer seek it out and I'm starting to agree with this cold estimate.
To make sure they can neither flee nor fight, our current cohort of glare frozen furbutts has elected a government whose actions mirror theirs in a kabuki of cowardice -- a herd of Congressional and Senatorial Bambis, if you will. This part of the herd, as a reward for their obsessive compulsion towards embracing bankruptcy and the sanctification of institutionalized cowardice, is actually praised by the scribblers snorting among them. The scribblers' praise extends to the President as he prances about Europe to universal swooning, while making manifest the policies of treason he promised, though none dare call it so. Throughout the history of the Republic we've seen many popular delusions of the mob rise and capture the nation, but we've never seen the towering tsunami of the mutual admiration society madness rise this high before.
It is an unusual government that swears to preserve and protect the Constitution, and then slaps that document, perforated, on a roll and installs it in the stalls of Congressional toilets. It is an unusual government that promotes and passes policies of failure and defeat while prating of "patriotism" to troops in Iraq who it long ago sold down the river. Yet failure and defeat seems to be what the majority in the current administration and congress desperately want. All while the deer only want to step out on the asphalt and watch.
Perhaps the answer to what goes through the deer's mind as it stands in the beams is as simple as "a death wish."
After all, ..... continued HERE
