Sunday, April 12, 2015
It's geography
This 1945 episode of 'This is your FBI' features a political heretic obviously modeled after Father Coughlin. He is killed by underlings in a plot that presages (and perhaps influences?) Roy Cohn's plot against Joe McCarthy. The 'heroic' FBI agent, even while finding the murderer, can't suppress his distaste for heresy. In real life his unprofessional behavior would have ruined the case, but of course it wouldn't have mattered because the FBI's primary interest has always been squashing heresy.
Examining the anger written into the mouth of the 'hero', and examining my own anger in response, I realized something.
Above and beyond all other qualities, the FBI was and still is a New York organization. NYC is still the top-status assignment.
Westerners and NYers have precisely opposite definitions of tyranny.
To a westerner like me, a tyrant is some NY satan telling me how to think.
To a NYer, a tyrant is some dumbass redneck ofay fundy het honky KKK cracker who dares to disagree by the slightest word or letter or punctuation mark or micro-pixel with the only possible way to think, which is of course the NY way as of the current femtosecond.
This basic geographical conflict is constant regardless of topic. Sex, religion, politics, cars, food. Always the same.
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