Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Articles of Faith
One of my friends was telling me recently about a book he read where some sociologist or anthropologist said that in EVERY past culture he could find, there were articles of faith/belief which were (1) central to the culture and (2) later proven to be false. (E.g. the local dictator is actually a deity, the world is flat, the sun revolves around the earth, God wants darker-skinned people to be slaves, etc.)
I believe that the dominant sociopolitical culture of the West currently includes a long list of false articles of faith. If a politician or public figure were to step out of line on any ONE of those tenets, he or she would have to be extraordinarily persuasive and charismatic to avoid being easily, automatically marginalized and sent into the weeds. Two or more and that person is pretty well finished with the vast majority of people.
Unfortunately, given that there are currently so many of these false articles of faith, a conscious, thinking, sincere, honest, rational person will almost inevitably fall outside the matrix on at least a couple of those points. As a politician, then, that person would be left with a choice between lying, or being labeled a kook -- and having a majority of people in the mass culture agree that s/he is a kook -- and being therefore unelectable to higher offices. Such a person might squeak by in a local election, or maybe even carry a congressional district, but probably not a state or a nation.
But wouldn't this make ALL of our major elected leaders either dupes, or liars, or both?
Yes, it would.
I could offer a list here of the false tenets of Western culture, but to list them all at once is just asking for trouble, because it would just make ME a kook in the eyes of most any normal or even semi-normal reader, and undermine the one simple point that I wanted to make in this post.
:-)
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Happy New Regime
Our puppet president, Mr. Obama, signs into law a bill allowing the government to detain anyone, anywhere, without trial, indefinitely. This is part of a bill authorizing another $662 billion to be added to the nation's fictitious debt to finance more military imperialism, death, and destabilization on the inexorable road toward WW3 in the Middle East, martial law, and totalitarian global socialism.
Happy New Year! This is the change you can believe in.
Obama did claim to be signing this bill "despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists." Bullshit!
I didn't think Obama could possibly lie as much, as often, as egregiously, or as consistently as George W. Bush, but he is at least as bad. In fact, I can barely stand to listen to him talk, because pretty much every sentence he utters is a lie. Obama was a good actor, and gave a lot of us the impression that he was a good guy who meant well, who would try to do the right thing, who believed in the Constitution, and who would try to help the average American. But this man, and the higher-ups that he serves, hold the average American in utter, malevolent contempt. Most people still can't wrap their minds around that reality, which makes it possible to hide it in plain sight.
America is finished, dead and gone. All the people who bought into the easy marginalization and dismissal of "conspiracy theories" as being the domain of weirdos and lunatics are already living through the first courses of the inevitable, draconian punishment for their intellectual laziness. Unfortunately they still don't understand the real sources of their difficulties, nor do they have any idea how much worse it is going to get in the years and decades to come.
