Comments on: Eye in the sky https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Peter https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1475 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:23:03 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1475 Heh-heh!

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1474 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:33:39 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1474 Thanks for clearing that up, Peter. I consider myself a fuddy-duddy too – still haven’t accepted political parties, the Industrial Revolution, the European Enlightenment…

]]> By: Peter https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1473 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:45:10 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1473 One perennial plank in the U.S. Whig party platform was to spend money on internal improvements, especially on railroads.

Part of Benny’s shtick was being a fuddy-duddy. Someone asked him about his political affiliations, and he responded that he was still a Whig, saying that he found it difficult to switch parties.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1472 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:05:21 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1472 Peter – I must confess I know nothing of Jack Benny or the Whigs.

Karen – Not to mention “This Land is Your Land”…

Alan – Actually, I’ve never much cared who might be watching. I like to act as if I’m as free as I think I am – in the sense at least of the old German folk song, Die Gedanken Sind Frei.

]]> By: Alan https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1471 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:02:21 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1471 Dave, you know things have reached a new low when a guy can’t even sneak away for a moment to piss behind a beech tree without the nagging thought that someone somewhere is watching and, at the very least, snickering away.
The freedom to pee at one’s pleasure will soon be a lost pleasure at the rate this homeland security bullshit is proceeding along its merry path.

]]> By: Karen https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1470 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 13:39:54 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1470 Now you’ll have to add a verse to “Big Rock Candy Mountain” concerning spy satellites.

]]> By: Peter https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1469 Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:50:39 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1469 I’m with you on the railroad subsidies. We’re crazy not to go to something like Germany’s support for its railroads. But then, like Jack Benny, I’m still a Whig.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1468 Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:31:31 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1468 Agreed about fear and the desire for revenge. I don’t tend to feel either emotion much, so I forget about them. (Ignorance, gullibility and crowd-following, on the other hand…)

]]> By: Curt Stump https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1467 Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:49:48 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1467 Hi Dave, well, that’s what I thought you might say – that it’s no joke – unfortunately.

I think I followed your comment about the war on terror and HS dept. and agree about ignorance, gullibility, and crowd-following. I do think a lot of people wanted revenge too though, in a malicious way. But more than all those things, I’d say fear is the primary mover. An unhealthy amount of fear (of anything not American) – and the fear still looks to be driving the country into a ditch. Just my perspective.

Enjoyed the post. And I like the idea of waving up at the sky at this point.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1466 Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:02:59 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/07/21/eye-in-the-sky/#comment-1466 (Hmm. My last comment seems fairly incoherent, even to me. Bad sign.)

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