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Edited on Tue Mar-11-08 07:09 PM by tom_paine
I'll say it again:
It is because no one, and I mean NO ONE is immune from the Bushies' False Reality Bubble, or Goebbels 2.0 or whatever the hell you want to call the grotesque dystopian fusion of hyper-media saturation with the massive progress of the sciences of advertising, psychology, PR, and marketing.
NO ONE. Not me, not you, not anyone reading this. It is a part of the environment. It is the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the thoughts we think.
We are the first human beings to ever be subjected to something like this, and there is simply no telling where we go after a generation or two of this madness except to say "out of the cradle, into college, then back to the cradle".
Here at DU, myself included, we like to think ourselves in some ways superior to the sheeple. To think that we can see through lies that few others can. This is, by and large true, but it blinds us also to the larger issue, that we are all "hooked through the bag" to the False Reality Construct, the Hologram (as Joe Bageant calls it).
Like the idiots who cannot ever believe It Could Happen Here, which attitude ironically ensures that one day It Would (and Did) Happen Here, we DUers are so certain that we are above the Cacophonous Carnival of MSM Nonsense and Perception Management that we also make it a certainty by our own surety that no WAY could we be caught up in it.
And, of course, we ARE caught up in it. Led around by the nose, discussing whatever the Bushies and their Propaganda Machine wish us to discuss. Oh, not as bad as the sheep that see and hear nothing, but bad enough.
"The fault Dear Cassius, lies not in our stars but in ourselves."
--Brutus in William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"
I don't know what the answer is except that I strongly suspect the time has long passed that there is an answer except to ride the Bushie-Nazi ride to the end, when we'll find out EXACTLY what their Final Solution to the Liberal Problem is.
If there was a time to find an answer, it was before this THING was allowed to metastasize unopposed into Conventional Wisdom, into this False Reality that passes for real, driven by TV, Internet, media, advertising, psychology, PR, marketing, and the rest of the Science of Lies as envisioned by Leo Strauss, may his poisoned soul rot in the lowest levels of hell.
We are now the mental equivalents of the 1930s Germans. Oh, some of the details are different, owing to the different time and nation, not to mention the fact that we had a much longer history of freedom to dismantle, but the root mentality is the same.
May God help us all, but if She didn't help us when Hitler or Stalin rose, what makes you think She is going to lift a finger to stop their "kinder and gentler little totalitarian cousins" the Bushies?
Sorry. Don't shoot the messenger because you don't like what is left of reality.
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