You know abe, I've been thinking...

Moe: You know abe, I've been thinking, should someone clean up this mess?
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Abe: The thing about cleanin' up any mess is this, you gotta be able to do it with real clean hands or else you end up just adding your filth to it. I've been workin' for decades on getting myself clean enough to just walk in the room with a real mess.
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Moe: Well I suppose that presents a conundrum of sorts. There's is always this sense of futility knowing that the mess cleaned up leaves another mess. But isn't that we do anyway? Just like breathing, one breath leads to another and another and another until we stop. Messes are things to clean up, the question is always who, clean hands or no. Look at November 2nd, isn't it a question of who has cleaner hands? Tough question considering that they both have spent time down at the abattoir.
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Abe: I'm not talking about making another mess, but rather making this mess worse, or even making a real mess from what wasn't a mess to begin with. Like you said, "Messes are things to clean up," but I'm not sure that what I do cleans. Assumptions assumptions assumptions. It's like story of the man who made the flowers prettier by painting them. The Greeks called that hubris. My pappy just called it, "Dumb-assedness."
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How do we define something as a "mess" in the first place? And, how do we know we can believe the definers? Boy, talk about November 2nd! It seems like right now we're all willing to climb down into the muck-pit those two bloody-boys have defined and been diggin' from the nice clean dirt. We fight to hang our butts out over the pit-lip, "dump" our respective shits down into it and then complain about the stench rising up. What a mess. SURPISE!!
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Excuse me while I take some time to clean my hands.
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Moe: Reminds me of "the Evil Empire" and how it rotted from within long before the Righteous West spent it into oblivion. Their "mess" was created by refusing to accept reality. The people writing reports had to gussy up what they said to their bosses or they risked of being airbrushed out of society. But reality is a lady who will not wait and when she comes to confront the lovers of myth "messes happen".
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Now fast forward to the New World Order and you see the same thing happening. All the societal estates have been subsumed by a self righteous myth which assumes an incorruptabilty that history says just not exist in the ministerings of man. There is no position one can take these days that doesn't assume a more superior and moral foundation. What you may regard as a stench rising up, others exault as a "sweet smelling savour" - a reward for their efforts.
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A mess? You're damned right. I'm just waiting for the media pap declaring with unbounded glee that the New & Improved® War to End All Wars™ is upon us. So, good luck washing your hands. Chances are you will not be able to get that stain off.