The Burning Bush

[athelind]

The events of the last two and a half years make much more sense if viewed from the following hypothesis:

Like many Protestant Fundamentalists, George Walker Bush is a millennialist, and believes that he is doing God's work by bringing about the Apocalypse.

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Always a cogent observation. However, as I consider Fundamentalist Millennialism to be primarily an example of the latter rather than the former, the Razor cuts in my favor in this instance.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

An interesting distinction. Let's suppose-- difficult as it may be-- that W were intelligent. Let's suppose that he applies his intelligence in a deliberate attempt to bring about Armageddon. That would be conspiricy toward a stupid goal. Does that count as stupidity or as conspiricy?

Personally, I still find it more believable that he's just banging the control levers of the government at random, jug-eared-monkey-at-the-typewriter style. But then I've worked in government for years, so I have perhaps met more world-class idiots than you have -- as well as having poisoned my mind with a permanent case of cynicism.