What to do?
It is unlikely that a significant number of people in the United States will find the motivation to pierce the simulacrum until they have experienced severe hardship or pain. Many US Americans are not even aware that their enslaved psyches condemn them to an existential hell of spiritual vacuousness, blind loyalty to a ruthless empire, and obsessive devotion to a predatory economic system. And many of those who do become aware don't care as long as they can continue to relish heaping portions of fat-laden addictive repasts from the ubiquitous Golden Arches, to intellectually gorge themselves with the brain candy eagerly proffered by the corporate media as propagandistic seeds sown into the rich soil of otherwise fallow minds, to make Faustian bargains with Visa to adorn their walls with plasma televisions of elephantine proportions , and to drive urban assault vehicles capable of transporting small armies and ensuring that they will dominate the road.
Given humankind's United States-led pursuit of self-destruction, an economic, ecological, or humanitarian cataclysm is virtually inevitable at some point. However, there is a silver lining. The survivors who rise from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix will be blessed with a second chance. And let's hope those Founding Parents will have the wisdom to remake civilization according to truly democratic, just, and humane principles.
(1)http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570630_3/Capital_Punishment.html
(2)http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press04172002.html
(3)http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/Facts.html
(4)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_American_War
(5)http://www.vietnam-war.info/casualties/
(6)http://www.consortiumnews.com/1999/052699a1.html
(7)http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Images/rasmus1105.html
(8)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4481261.stm
(9)http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/09/iraq.poll/
(10)http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
(11)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_immigration_041006.htm
(12)http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=127726
(13)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership
It is unlikely that a significant number of people in the United States will find the motivation to pierce the simulacrum until they have experienced severe hardship or pain. Many US Americans are not even aware that their enslaved psyches condemn them to an existential hell of spiritual vacuousness, blind loyalty to a ruthless empire, and obsessive devotion to a predatory economic system. And many of those who do become aware don't care as long as they can continue to relish heaping portions of fat-laden addictive repasts from the ubiquitous Golden Arches, to intellectually gorge themselves with the brain candy eagerly proffered by the corporate media as propagandistic seeds sown into the rich soil of otherwise fallow minds, to make Faustian bargains with Visa to adorn their walls with plasma televisions of elephantine proportions , and to drive urban assault vehicles capable of transporting small armies and ensuring that they will dominate the road.
Given humankind's United States-led pursuit of self-destruction, an economic, ecological, or humanitarian cataclysm is virtually inevitable at some point. However, there is a silver lining. The survivors who rise from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix will be blessed with a second chance. And let's hope those Founding Parents will have the wisdom to remake civilization according to truly democratic, just, and humane principles.
(1)http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570630_3/Capital_Punishment.html
(3)http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/Facts.html
(4)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_American_War
(5)http://www.vietnam-war.info/casualties/
(6)http://www.consortiumnews.com/1999/052699a1.html
(7)http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Images/rasmus1105.html
(8)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4481261.stm
(9)http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/09/iraq.poll/
(10)http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm
(11)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_immigration_041006.htm
(12)http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=127726
(13)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership
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