The principle of Thought

While the Heretik was honoring National Poetry Month in April, and has continued his tributes for the whole year, I got out my slim little copy of Poetics by Aristotle to revisit what the old boy had to say about the art. Early on he discusses the principles of Tragedy. He says:"Tragedy is the imitation of an action; and an action implies personal agents, who necessarily possess certain distinctive qualities both of character and of thought; for it is by these that we qualify actions themselves, and these - thought and character - are the two natural causes from which actions spring, and on actions again all success or failure depends." We got tragedy over to the Oval Office, where daily - no, hourly - we are inundated with imitations of actions from W. Behind his imitation actions are the actual thoughts and actions of his regime, but the ones perpetrating them have no intention of conducting successful governing. You have to ask, what do they think there will be for them to do when all is bankrupt and lies in ruins? I don't believe they care. They're feathering their foul nests. This has happened in other times and places, and the results have been similar: The ripped-off eventually find the fat and well-larded ones, and divest them of their ill-gotten loot. Revolution or invasion, results are similar. The endangered American middle class is the group that should be rising up, but we are too cowardly and/or polite to ever do so.