more thoughts from the vault;

By American dream the majority understand mere pleasure and comfort, not equality and liberty. The latter is too great a burden, and the former mostly a means to pleasure and comfort. After unthinking adherence to custom, the driving force of the majority is unthinking adherence to authority; and their general response to anti-authoritarians is one of bafflement, contempt, or a combination of both. Thus, the natural brutality, smugness, and obstinacy of authority is both exacerbated and reinforced: The incorrigibly stupid mass that cannot even recognize their own wretchedness. For the most part it is the adults and the doctors who are sick, not the children. Still, the child who is given Ritalin after naturally resisting an “educational curriculum” which doesn’t engage his mind to think independently, and which therefore doesn’t stir his vitality and creative powers, will as an adult transition as a matter of course to Prozac, that yuppie dope. But certainly the spiritual hell of American capitalism requires some anesthetic. US officialdom and their media megaphones have systematically concocted narratives having less to do with political reality and more with their hallucinogenic world view. If there is one sliver of truth in the vassal press, it is that the demonic changes made against Putin reflected the gory reality of the Empire’s well-documented policies.

Russia didn’t ‘invade’ the Ukraine or Crimea. It was the ‘potty-mouthed’ Victoria Nuland, US Undersecretary of State for European Affairs, who boasted of having tossed a mere 5 billion dollars into neo-fascist-kleptocratic putsch that took over Ukraine and who famously dismissed the concerns of the European Union…with her secretly recorded ‘Fuck the EE’ comment to the US Ambassador. The press superficially covers the plight of millions of immigrants and refugees who would never have left their jobs and homes were it not for the American destruction of the Middle East and North Africa. The respectable media defend the American officials directly responsible for the plight of these migrants flooding and threatening to destabilize Europe. The same newspapers defend the ‘human rights’ of Chinese workers in local and US-owned factories who out-competed domestic American factories, but ignore the plight of millions of unemployed and destitute workers trying to survive in the American war zones and Israeli-occupied territories. This only considers Europe and the mid-east, while ignoring the same dynamic here in the ‘west’ where America destroys in the name of freedom and creates its own refugees here that cross borders to escape the hell holes we create in central America.

Who knows how America might end up? Torturing people? Attacking other countries that pose no threat to it whatsoever? Indefinitely imprisoning people in camps? Assassinating anyone the president deems a “terrorist” or an “enemy combatant” with the tacit approval of the majority of Americans? Watching everyone’s phone calls, emails, tweets, and reading and web-browsing habits? Imagine the dystopia we would all be living in, if things like that were considered “normal.”