Oleg Atbashian at the People's Cube has coined the expression "the professional Left versus the amateur Right". It is a very apt description of our problem. For Leftists, agitating is their job. It's what going into the office means to them. For us, we are stuck with trying to always play catchup because we spend all our time working in the business sector. I don't know about anyone else, but I have for the past several months found it nearly impossible to devote any sort of mental energy to my job. I hear all these conversations at work about business-related things and I am barely able to contain my dual sense of disgust and surprise. It just all seems so mundane and meaningless, and yet it's eating up our time and energy. Meanwhile our enemies are taking the fight to us as part of their day job.
This is one area where I have long had issues with mainstream conservatism's almost religious reverence for the private sector. If you confine yourself to it, you're going to get your ass handed to you by the government sector. It's been proceeding apace for nearly a full century already. Boardroom politics don't mean sh*t compared to politics-politics.
You remember that scene from Aliens where Ripley is brought up before an inquest to determine why she activated the self-destruct on her ship from the first film? She is earnestly trying to explain how dangerous the alien life form was, how it killed the entire crew, and all they keep peppering her with are factoids about how valuable the ship and cargo were. She loses it and goes on a tirade about how all this bullsh*t they think is so important is utterly meaningless in light of the threat humanity faces if one of those creatures was brought back to Earth. I wish I could find that scene on YouTube. It's just exactly the way I feel.
