It's not
Talking Truth to Power. It's talking Truth to Knuckleheads. And it can't be
done. Facts bounce off the skulls of insanity-induced dumbasses. You might just
as well try hunting for grizzly bears or wild boars with BB guns. You're just
going to make them mad.
So the question arises: How many lies over how many years does it take to push a country past the tipping point? Germany under Hitler seemed to have gone bull-goose loony in about 10 years. All I know is the U.S. government and the media have been lying their collective asses off as long as I have been alive.
It's understood that commercials are designed to condition people to want things they don't need. This is done by scrupulously avoiding the truth. The average TV-watching American will have seen 2 million commercials by age 65. The typical commercial is 30 seconds long so we're talking about absorbing a million minutes of garbage while trying to watch our favorite shows. Decades of watching dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper has got to have some effect on our national psyche.
But those are the little lies we're exposed to. It's the Big Whoppers the government has been telling us that twists our balloon-like brains into amusing animal shapes.
Was there an international communist conspiracy to topple Our Way Of
Life in the 50's? Nope. Just a conspiracy hatched by politicians (and their
media advisers) to whip up The Fear and guarantee their election so they could
fill the coffers of the Military-Industrial National Security State with our tax
dollars.
In the 60's the Johnson administration lied about what really happened during The Gulf of Tonkin Incident. That lie mushroomed into the Vietnam War. The Pentagon Papers, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg revealed the Johnson Administration systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about the war that killed millions of Vietnamese, over 58,000 Americans, and cost over $686 billion dollars.
Richard Nixon lied, Ronald Reagan lied, George H.W. Bush lied, Bill Clinton lied, George W. Bush lied, and now Barack Obama lies.
It doesn't help that we've all been taught to forget that America was established upon genocide and slavery. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are nice documents but we got the start-up cash from slaughtering indigenous peoples and using generations of Africans for slave labor.
Now load on all the crap Fox and the right-wing demagogues spew Every Goddamn Day of the year and out of that noxious stew of lies emerges CrazyLand USA.
Hey check out Iraq. It appears that the country the U.S. government illegally invaded on March 20, 2003 is coming apart at the seams. I guess none of the Idiot Elite saw that coming.
Want to talk about Ferguson, Missouri? This is what happens in a racist country when the government dumps millions of dollars worth of military hardware on cops who want to play army.
It truly is a double-edged sword. If you believe the lies -- you 're crazy. If you don't swallow the lies -- The True Believers and the Dominant Culture that affirms the lies will label you crazy.
As Krishnamurti said, "It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
I could go on but I don't have the will to give myself another panic attack. As Agent Rogersz said in one of my favorite movies, Repo Man, "It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes."
I'm fresh out of ideas. I can't see the benefit of continuing to chronicle the symptoms of a country that has made so many wrong turns over the last 60 years it's impossible to imagine how it could ever get back on track. If nothing else it's terribly obvious the whole damn country might benefit from another little thinky-think before the next election.
But what the hell. These days I practice my banjo and every once in awhile take a peek with my telescope at the inhabitants of Planet Nutzoid. Yup. Still crazy after all these years.
Having a Wonderful Time. Wish you were here.
So the question arises: How many lies over how many years does it take to push a country past the tipping point? Germany under Hitler seemed to have gone bull-goose loony in about 10 years. All I know is the U.S. government and the media have been lying their collective asses off as long as I have been alive.
It's understood that commercials are designed to condition people to want things they don't need. This is done by scrupulously avoiding the truth. The average TV-watching American will have seen 2 million commercials by age 65. The typical commercial is 30 seconds long so we're talking about absorbing a million minutes of garbage while trying to watch our favorite shows. Decades of watching dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper has got to have some effect on our national psyche.
But those are the little lies we're exposed to. It's the Big Whoppers the government has been telling us that twists our balloon-like brains into amusing animal shapes.
In the 60's the Johnson administration lied about what really happened during The Gulf of Tonkin Incident. That lie mushroomed into the Vietnam War. The Pentagon Papers, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg revealed the Johnson Administration systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about the war that killed millions of Vietnamese, over 58,000 Americans, and cost over $686 billion dollars.
Richard Nixon lied, Ronald Reagan lied, George H.W. Bush lied, Bill Clinton lied, George W. Bush lied, and now Barack Obama lies.
It doesn't help that we've all been taught to forget that America was established upon genocide and slavery. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are nice documents but we got the start-up cash from slaughtering indigenous peoples and using generations of Africans for slave labor.
Now load on all the crap Fox and the right-wing demagogues spew Every Goddamn Day of the year and out of that noxious stew of lies emerges CrazyLand USA.
Hey check out Iraq. It appears that the country the U.S. government illegally invaded on March 20, 2003 is coming apart at the seams. I guess none of the Idiot Elite saw that coming.
Want to talk about Ferguson, Missouri? This is what happens in a racist country when the government dumps millions of dollars worth of military hardware on cops who want to play army.
It truly is a double-edged sword. If you believe the lies -- you 're crazy. If you don't swallow the lies -- The True Believers and the Dominant Culture that affirms the lies will label you crazy.
As Krishnamurti said, "It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
I could go on but I don't have the will to give myself another panic attack. As Agent Rogersz said in one of my favorite movies, Repo Man, "It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes."
I'm fresh out of ideas. I can't see the benefit of continuing to chronicle the symptoms of a country that has made so many wrong turns over the last 60 years it's impossible to imagine how it could ever get back on track. If nothing else it's terribly obvious the whole damn country might benefit from another little thinky-think before the next election.
But what the hell. These days I practice my banjo and every once in awhile take a peek with my telescope at the inhabitants of Planet Nutzoid. Yup. Still crazy after all these years.
Having a Wonderful Time. Wish you were here.
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