Bush & Blair: the deceptive allure of schadenfreude

We're at one of those moments where ruling politicians' credibility falls away - Blair & Bush are being revealed to all as liars, driven a combination by evil intent, delusion and sheer idiocy. With Bush the stupidities are evident to most, Blair's a bit more intelligent and can manage a better facsimile of sincerity, so his evil, deluded narcissism takes a bit longer for some to see through. Both suffer from religious delusions of grandeur. Whatever, it's happening to both of them, and at this point it's possible to feel that some progress is being made, that people will see the lies and demand justice and a better future. Don't be deceived; look at the bigger picture. The machine that rules us allows individuals to compete in the generation of personal 'credibility' and the most persuasive lies i.e. the lies that will convince an electroal majority (around about 20-25% of the population). In other words, it's an advertising campaign with even lower than usual standards of truth. They then take this to the polls to determine who has the best set of lies, and the winner burns off this accrued credibility and support in the service of evil i.e. various long term (beond the span of a single administration) secretive arrangements involving the security state, the military industrial complex and corporate sponsors. So it's crucial to realise that this moment of apparent progress is in fact a key modality of the systems that deprive us of democracy, freedom and a just future.