Bad-Guys are coming!!!

"Compasiinate conservative".Is it me or does this statement mean that that all conservatives are not compassionate? Bush-Cheney team is so full of compassion that Cheney recently threatened that if the voters don’t make the right choice of voting ‘right’, They will be punished by the terrorists.

We as a society have always been cowering with fear. We Indians have Pakistanis, Pakistanis have Indians, America had Communists and Russians had capitalists. How true does Orwell’s 1984 sound. The society in '1984' is always at war with something else.

We do live in the same Orwellian society, now the bad guys are the terrorists. Just use this Bogey-Man to make everyone fall into the line. This Technique is what Cheney is using; Bad guys are waiting to attack.

I had a very interesting experience on a visit to the USA, I was visiting ‘The Alamo’ in San Antonio. It was here, where one of the heroic battles in American History took place. At this palce mexicans concentrated their attak on their bid take back Texas, and the American soldiers at this Fort 'The Alamo' held them at bay for 40 days or so till they could get reinforcements.

Coming back to the story, Mexican-American family with a two year old son walks in and looks at this big toy model of the battle. The son asks his mother who are the bad guys. The mother points at the Mexican soldiers and says that they are the bad guys, the little guy jumps in and says aren’t we Mexicans?

Seriously who are these bad guys whom we keep hearing about?

Do we as a species need an enemy to keep us motivated? Or do we need an external threat to band together? in other words do we need Pakistanis to remind us that we are Indians? Do Americans need terrorists to make display their flag and sing their "God bless America"?

I guess we need this Bogey-Man to knock our doors once in a while. We give our best when our existance is threatened. It all makes sence, we needed a Bogey man as a evolving species and we continue to need him.

We have been using this Bogey-Man technique to make childeren drink milk. Cheney is using the same technique to make American voters vote 'right', I guess just sticking with what works.