metonomy

mcafee's last stand is a fascinating article. not entirely sympathetic, but that makes it seem all the more authentic.

here's the thing, though: the more i think about it, the more i see john as an excellent personification of the united states of america. both in his upbringing (the british / his father), his reaction to the 60s, his manipulation of peoples' fears turning into his own paranoia, and his delusions of grandeur (and wild-west-ness) that lead him to police cultures he knows nothing about.

---i wonder if reading the article before bed had something to do with my dreaming about being harassed by buffalo while out camping in their territory, and not being embarrassed to admit defeat when a particularly persistent one caused me to flee the area without my belongings. a long story later, we were back home and trying to leave for another camping experience when we were attacked by (another? the same?) one that had apparently been hunting us since the wilderness. this time, it was personal.