So I wonder to myself why this phrase was picked to name America's response to the 9-11 event. It is poorly chosen, and in fact, seems to have no meaning what-so-ever!
First off, there are two main types of infinity: those that are countable and those which are not. Concerning the latter, if this is the sort of infinity that Bush and his cronies want to capture, then they are in a position to set themselves up for failure. An uncountable infinity can not be listed. In other words, we could not even discover all the acts that would be elements of a set of nondenumerable infinite justice let alone hope to be able to carry them all out!
Now if Bush means a countable infinity, then perhaps he can succeed. No. Given that we are all human and finite, and that our resources are finite, again, there can be no hope to actually carry out a plan of infinite justice. As opposed to the last infinity we discussed, we would be able to at least discern what sort of things are going to be members of such an infinity, but again, it is well beyond our means to actually complete such a task.
So really, the only meaning I can see in the idea of infinite justice is that of failure--straight up. It is well beyond our means to make such a notion a reality. Thus, it becomes meaningless in any practical sense to talk about an "infinite justice."
Perhaps Bush and humanity’s best friends down at the four-sided Pentagon would have been better off calling the operation, "A googol of justice;" thus, while it would still take an awful lot of war mongering, scare tactics, diplomatic double-dealing, 1984 double speak, media manipulation, sanctioning, lifting of sanctions, sorting of allies from enemies (‘cause there’s only two camps of people in the world—right?) and many a kilo-ton of explosives (not to even mention the number of lives that will need to be subtracted from the world—through many of the aforementioned acts) to attain such an ass-load of justice, at least it would be realistic and actually possible. |
