Toon - Wake Up, America!

[somone]

[DeSwiss]

1. K&R

So if we are talking change through revolt, we're necessarily talking about deconditioning because the thing we fear already has a life deep in our own consciousness. Deconditioning from cultural ignorance is at the heart of any insurrectionary politics. Deconditioning also involves risk and suffering. But it is transformative, freeing the self from helplessness and fear. It unleashes the fifth freedom, the right to an autonomous consciousness. That makes deconditioning about as individual and personal act as is possible. Maybe the only genuine individual act.

Once unencumbered by self-induced and manufactured cultural ignorance, it becomes clear that politics worldwide is entirely about money, power and national mythology, with or without some degree of human rights. America still has all of the above to one degree or another. Yet for all practical purposes, such as advancing the freedom and the well being of its own people, the American republic has collapsed.

Of course, there is still money to be made by the already rich. So the million or so people who own the country and the government use their control to convince us that there is no collapse, just economic and political problems that need to be solved. Naturally, they are willing to do that for us. Consequently, the economy is discussed in political terms, because the government is the only body with the power to legislate, and therefore render the will of the owning class into law.

But politics and money are never going to fill what is essentially a public vacuum that is moral, philosophical and spiritual. (The latter was instantly recognized by fundamentalist Christians, disfigured by cultural ignorance, as they may be.) Not many ordinary Americans talk about this vacuum. The required spiritual and philosophical language has been successfully purged by newspeak, popular culture, a human regimentation process masquerading as a national educational system, and the ruthlessness of everyday competition, which leaves no time to contemplate anything.

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/12/america-y-ur-peeps-b-so-dum.html">~Joe Bageant, "America Y UR Peeps B So Dum?"

[pa28]

2. "Only 39% of Americans believe in evolution."

I had to look it up. It's true.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/114544/darwin-birthday-believe-evolution.aspx

:wow:

[eppur_se_muova]

5. I'm actually relieved it's supposedly that high. nt

[reggie the dog]

3. Why dont you leave if you don't like it?

I think i will, bye.... that is what i did 8 years ago and i have no regrets vive la france, fuck the usa. i have not even asked for US citizenship for my daughter born over here.

[ThomCat]

6. I Wish I could move to Canada.

I have friends there who have been hoping I could move there.

But people with disabilities to immigrate to Canada. Anyone who will be a drain upon the Canadian health care system is prohibited by law from moving to Canada, and can be prevented even from visiting Canada, turned back at the border.

It doesn't matter what skills you have, or how many points you score in their point-based immigration system otherwise. Efforts to overturn that restriction have repeatedly failed.

I have had a visible disability my entire adult life, and I have required constant medical care for years. So there is no way in hell I could ever bluff my way through and pretend that I don't have a disability and wouldn't be using their public health care.

[HughBeaumont]

4. Yeah, and you know what sucks?

He's not kidding. This is, indeed, Lloyd Dangle's third-to-last Troubletown:

http://blog.cagle.com/2011/03/qa-dangle-to-end-troubletown/