Staking out a cause

I've recently been finding that my standoffish nature toward developing Internet friends has led me to meet, online, several people that share my concern that some kind of horrible evil exists. People are afraid to speak its name. No one even has a name for it, but there are lots of photos of Cheney wearing horns lying about the Internet.

I just finished reading the sixth Harry Potter book, and it has altered my thought patterns for a couple days, just as the other five did. I have long had a fantasy about there being a heroic team of evil-fighters who somehow make life actually worth living. And, as I mentioned, lately I find myself sending emails to people asking questions and offering my admiration for their anti-evil deeds. So, you see my point, I wish there was a sort of Dumbledore's Army (Book 5) one could join.

I keep a blog about depleted uranium at GNN.tv and have been trying to find a new home for it. One of the things I am considering is getting a totally new domain name. The name antivoldemortarianism.com came to mind. Perhaps too much a mouthful, or perhaps that is the charm. I'll let the thought stew. I immediately Googled "voldemortarian" (3 Ghits plus mine) to see how original the word was, and to my surprise (lie - my subconscious mind had to know), I am the originator of it nearly two years ago - not exactly; three other refernces to the word show on Google, but I'm apparently the first to use it as a label for the real-world problem for which we still have no better name than neo-conservativism, which is a distortion anyway, since the problem of government-by-evil goes back even further than the Neocons. I think my word is perfect. We have Orwellian, but this is a bit different. This is an actual modern system of government that is even more vile than, and distinctly different from its predecessors, Nazism and Fascism, that it is a necessity that it be named.

I hope I don't need to explain the appropriateness of the choice. Voldemort is the name that most of non-Muggle society dared not to speak. It is almost a given that the name Voldemortarianism will also remain unspoken by most of Muggle society for a while yet. The "unspokenness" (252 Ghits) is the root of this political system's power. By having no name, it can commit the most unspeakable of acts (the list is too long to put here) with impunity. It is if in the anti-universe, the evil Ben Kenobi said to the rightous Stormtrooper, "These are not the Weapons of Mass Destruction you are looking for," and was allowed to pass into the media scrum to spread his illusory "news" about the noble war that was going badly but was still a rightous cause for all "good" people to believe in.

But more than this (good song), I am suddenly attracted the idea of using this domain name to give home to good writers who want to discuss things from this anti-evil perspective.

My use of the word evil is key. I am using it in a "Nuremburg sense" rather than a religious sense. It is not hard to use biology and evolution to explain human aversion to evil. In fact, I am totally convinced that if the species lives long enough biologists will soon demonstrate that altruism and kindness toward others is more important than the other driver of natural selection, competition. The case is already nearly won.

So, please, nobody swipe that domain name. Perhaps I'll go buy it now.

This has been a test post, my first on Blogger I think. Over and out.
-Peter