A Hyperbolic Cataclysm Made Possible By Citizen Ignorance
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A Hyperbolic Cataclysm Made Possible By Citizen Ignorance
Persons reading my essays sometimes ask why it’s possible for me to continue writing such critical material if, indeed, we are now living in a police state. Part of the answer was given in a movie entitled My Dinner With Andre.
America is “the new model for the new concentration camp where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves and the inmates are the guards and they have this pride in this thing they’ve built. They’ve built their own prison and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result, having been lobotomized, they no longer have the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or to even see it as a prison.”"My Dinner With Andre” by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory
The minds of Americans have been so “lobotomized” by mis-education, television, and ubiquitous societal brainwashing that they don’t YET require the jack-book kind of police state the German Nazis instigated in the 1930s. TV commercials “sell” not merely products, but a lifestyle based on a consumer mind-set. Day in and day out, twenty-five thousand times a year, television commercials hypnotize us into seeing ourselves as consumers to be entertained rather than citizens to be informed and actively engaged in sustaining and improving our society.
“Democracy, whether in Sweden or the United States, depends on the voter’s capacity to think. If you have read the best of what has been thought and said, then your cognition and understanding is on a much higher level than if you have read Harry Potter or Stephen King. So what this decline into half-literature and mediocre media really means is de facto a self-destruction of democracy.”
Harold Bloom, January 12, 2008
Progressive material, such as this essay and others on our Website, isn’t seen as dangerously subversive by the cabal because they know that most Americans don’t have the mental capacity to understand:
- What they read
- What’s going on
- How they’re being systematically destroyed
Unfortunately, some emails we receive from readers bear out the cabal’s negative judgment. As I’m writing this essay, for example, I received an email that asks:
“Would it not be better to have a completely free market than to have a socialistic system as you suggest? A free market takes care of itself, and shows what the people want. On the other hand, a socialist society is easily corruptible, and takes away freedoms of the individual.”
This person lacks the mental acuity to understand that recent events have conclusively demonstrated that the so-called “free-market,” never free from manipulation by moneyed crooks, has imploded. He says he’s read my material but he erroneously asserts that I suggest a “socialistic system.” His mind is so programmed that he can only repeat the capitalist mantra:
A Hyperbolic Cataclysm Made Possible By Citizen Ignorance
Persons reading my essays sometimes ask why it’s possible for me to continue writing such critical material if, indeed, we are now living in a police state. Part of the answer was given in a movie entitled My Dinner With Andre.
| America is “the new model for the new concentration camp where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves and the inmates are the guards and they have this pride in this thing they’ve built. They’ve built their own prison and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners. And as a result, having been lobotomized, they no longer have the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or to even see it as a prison.”"My Dinner With Andre” by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory |
The minds of Americans have been so “lobotomized” by mis-education, television, and ubiquitous societal brainwashing that they don’t YET require the jack-book kind of police state the German Nazis instigated in the 1930s. TV commercials “sell” not merely products, but a lifestyle based on a consumer mind-set. Day in and day out, twenty-five thousand times a year, television commercials hypnotize us into seeing ourselves as consumers to be entertained rather than citizens to be informed and actively engaged in sustaining and improving our society.
| “Democracy, whether in Sweden or the United States, depends on the voter’s capacity to think. If you have read the best of what has been thought and said, then your cognition and understanding is on a much higher level than if you have read Harry Potter or Stephen King. So what this decline into half-literature and mediocre media really means is de facto a self-destruction of democracy.”
Harold Bloom, January 12, 2008 |
Progressive material, such as this essay and others on our Website, isn’t seen as dangerously subversive by the cabal because they know that most Americans don’t have the mental capacity to understand:
Unfortunately, some emails we receive from readers bear out the cabal’s negative judgment. As I’m writing this essay, for example, I received an email that asks:
“Would it not be better to have a completely free market than to have a socialistic system as you suggest? A free market takes care of itself, and shows what the people want. On the other hand, a socialist society is easily corruptible, and takes away freedoms of the individual.”
This person lacks the mental acuity to understand that recent events have conclusively demonstrated that the so-called “free-market,” never free from manipulation by moneyed crooks, has imploded. He says he’s read my material but he erroneously asserts that I suggest a “socialistic system.” His mind is so programmed that he can only repeat the capitalist mantra:
“Would it not be better to have a completely free market than to have a socialistic system as you suggest? A free market takes care of itself, and shows what the people want. On the other hand, a socialist society is easily corruptible, and takes away freedoms of the individual.”
This person lacks the mental acuity to understand that recent events have conclusively demonstrated that the so-called “free-market,” never free from manipulation by moneyed crooks, has imploded. He says he’s read my material but he erroneously asserts that I suggest a “socialistic system.” His mind is so programmed that he can only repeat the capitalist mantra:
“a free market takes care of itself, and shows what people want.” Such a person is like a man who’s being threatened by a killer pointing a gun in his face who asks you benightedly: “Isn’t it nice that this man pays me so much attention?”
“a free market takes care of itself, and shows what people want.” Such a person is like a man who’s being threatened by a killer pointing a gun in his face who asks you benightedly: “Isn’t it nice that this man pays me so much attention?”
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Training Workers Worldwide to Think and Act Progressively
The present catastrophic world situation has been created by:
- The capitalist cabal organizing itself to seize and abuse political-economic-social power in the United States, Europe, and Asia
- The working class worldwide:
- Allowing itself to be programmed and brainwashed by the capitalist cabal
- Allowing itself to degenerate to the status of brain-dead robots
- Failing to inform itself as to the world situation
- Failing to organize itself to overthrow the capitalist cabal
- Failing to reorganize society so the means of production are owned by the people and used for their essential needs
Training Workers Worldwide to Think and Act Progressively
The present catastrophic world situation has been created by:
- Allowing itself to be programmed and brainwashed by the capitalist cabal
- Allowing itself to degenerate to the status of brain-dead robots
- Failing to inform itself as to the world situation
- Failing to organize itself to overthrow the capitalist cabal
- Failing to reorganize society so the means of production are owned by the people and used for their essential needs
To prepare for revolutionary restructuring of our entire culture, it will require thinking people throughout the world to re-educate themselves. They must first realize what a debilitated, sub-human intellectual, social, and spiritual state they are now in and use this as incentive to inform and organize themselves for non-violent revolutionary action.
| “‘Wait a minute,’ you say to [capitalists]. ‘No one ever asked you to stay up all night eight days a week trying to get filthy rich shorting what’s left of the American auto industry or selling $600 billion in toxic, irredeemable mortgages to ex-strippers on work release and Taco Bell clerks. Actually, come to think of it, why are we even giving taxpayer money to you people? Why are we not throwing your ass in jail instead?’”But before you even finish saying that, they’re rolling their eyes, because You Don’t Get It. These people were never about anything except turning money into money, in order to get more money; valueswise they’re on par with crack addicts, or obsessive sexual deviants who burgle homes to steal panties. Yet these are the people in whose hands our entire political future now rests.”
Matt Taibbi, “The Big Takeover: The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution, Rolling Stone, March 19, 2009
http://hermes-press.com/societal_apocalypse.htm |
