Fifty years ago there was a TV episode on ‘outer limits’ called
“to serve man”. In it aliens, other planet types, landed and one of the first
things they did was present world leaders a book, in their language. They provided
earthlings free travel to their planet with extensive marketing about wonders
to be found there. Earthlings lined up at the space ships to go. One radical,
early on, decided to translate the book presented at the first landing. When
most of the earthlings had already departed he discovered that “to serve man”
was a cookbook.
“Consumers” say “out of the box” for being out of the
mainstream, an unapproved place to be, so it’s hidden with slang. Eighty
percent of the people will follow and/or do anything. You see them everywhere.
They eat corporate plastic food. They have no minds. They follow whoever has
the loudest voice. Propaganda campaigns from corporate media, even though fewer
people trust them, still have great influence. The mainstream media repeat, as
though real, what government tells them.
Despite all the moralizing propaganda “our government” isn’t
much different than the feudal lords of the Middle Ages acting as though they
rule thru divine right. It’s difficult to say that you think “our government” stinks
and that you’ve had enough. The wealthy have the power, buy “our government”, and
own American policy.
The quality of America’s education is considerably
reduced in recent years. With such a handicap, even brilliant working class individuals
have little hope of escaping their lot in life; a form of slavery essential to
maintaining some measure of social order for the ruling class.
When the doctrine of “divine right” wore thin, a replacement
was created so “consumers” didn’t view political authority as only naked power.
That replacement is the theory of the rule of law. As long as the public
identifies order with law, it will believe that an orderly society is
impossible without the state provided law, and will support the state without considering
how oppressive it may be.
Mentally challenged flag wavers, accept the myth that those
from Government are here to help in the face of demonstrated reality. The only
rational conclusion is to expect the worst. Those who still say it could never
happen in America
lack a real historic awareness and current events understanding.
Constitutions are worthless for controlling government that
doesn’t know any limits to its power except your patience. We’ve accepted a
society with shameful extremes of poverty, immense wealth and untrustworthy
civic institutions. We’ve accepted regulation that’s no more benevolent than it
absolutely has to be to avoid revolution.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), allowing
indefinite military detention without charge or trial, places every American at
risk of the torture chamber. The next fabricated crisis offers the opportunity
for Martial Law creating the order for breaking down your door. Of course we
all know the innocent are never accused because those in ‘our’ government are
the best of the best and only have your interests at heart.
At least they’ve put your taxes to good use, fighting wars
of choice, creating the Dept of Energy making us energy self-sufficient,
creating the Dept of Education making our kids smarter, creating the VA to
properly care for the veterans of our military adventures, creating Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac to allow everyone to own a home, creating an entitlement state
that has resulted in 100 million government supported “consumers”, creating the
SEC to make sure Wall Street banks don’t commit fraud destroying the worldwide
financial system and now we have Obamacare to make us healthier.
If our system is so grand how come we lead the world in per
capita and total prisoners? Our officially poor and homeless grow faster than
our wealthy population. The system sells hope like a lottery ticket. Banks have
been repeatedly caught laundering money for drug gangs and similar nasty activities.
Nobody went to prison for those acts. I wonder why.
Liberty
isn’t economic, but life style. The economic good is a bonus: Would you choose
to live in a cage because the economy’s better there than in the wild?
Americans that question the system or expose its crimes are
considered enemies; communists, terrorists, subversives, and such; “Our
leaders” tell us to trust big brother, defer to authority, approve the military,
NSA, CIA, and always “support the troops.” That’s what being a “patriot” is
about to be acceptable in America.
America
is terrified by its own images of terrorists everywhere. Like many dying
empires America
is striking out in blind desperation to save itself from its own paranoid fears
and is destroying its foundations. America is the Constitution.
Without the Constitution America
ceases to exist and becomes a tyranny. America has become a tyranny masked
in the costume of “freedom and democracy.”
Satire died the day Kissinger was given the Nobel peace
prize. What’s the difference between our empire and Rome’s; between TV and the coliseum, between
Germanic tribes and Afghans or Russians?
“Our government”, creates coups everywhere, subverting the
democratically-elected governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Honduras and
Ukraine; backing terrorist forces in Syria and Libya; militarizing Africa; and
negotiating “free trade” agreements that remove democratic accountability from
transnational corporations, and international banks: a few of America’s global,
anti-democratic, anti-people strategies.
We’re told we live in a representative democracy, but who is
being represented?
We’ve become the country where an angle to get something for
nothing is “accepted”. “Everyone is doing it, so why shouldn’t I”. The
oligarchs and politicians set the tone. Everyone is on the take. Greed and
avarice are considered legitimate goals. The country revolves around fraud,
corruption, scams, and swindles.
If history is a guide, most Americans will get out their
dusty flags again, chant USA!
USA!
USA!
And many Christians, conservatives, Tea Party types will be duped and
distracted, once again. It just keeps on working out that way; just tell them
they are being attacked by Muslims, and/or Putin. Rationality is in short
supply in a nation of frightened, terrified people. It’s the ultimate disaster
story of the welfare-warfare state—a nation with the most powerful government
in history presiding over the most frightened people in the world. Large
powerful government results in a weak citizenry, a citizenry that gets its
courage vicariously through the troops and falls for anything, a citizenry that
eagerly surrenders its freedom to their own government in the quest to be kept
safe from the dangers that such government engenders.
A few years ago I was offered an opinion column in a local
publication which I accepted and submitted several ‘opinions’, and then I got
an email showing it was only partially so as the editor wanted to control how I
expressed my opinion and was unresponsive when I called him on it. Free speech
isn’t what you’re told it is in school.
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