If the truth be told the result of all this on the American public psyche is that they have become a bunch of weenies and have allowed their inalienable rights as protectors and guardians of the Republic to be twisted and corrupted by this tiny “1% of 1%” who now see America as their own choice piece of real estate.
The American public have become preoccupied with the ingesting of junk foods, reflex shopping and other trivialities having been so “dumbed and numbed down” by a steady daily diet of censored drivel that passes for public information.
All this works for the powers that be. In order for these super-rich folks to continue to binge-feed at the government and corporate trough the populace must never be restive. The corporate/state machine requires that the populace remain in blissful oblivion and obedience. And the sheer need for survival of the majority poor and unwashed necessitates that there be a parallel mechanism to “keep the populace in its place.” Does anyone wonder at the rapid growth (and wealth) of the religious industry the takes up from where corporate America leaves off?
Today, Christian consumerism is not in doubt with the rise of multi-million dollar mega-churches that offer “rewards in heaven” while it fleeces the poor hapless sods seeking solace and fulfillment and reassurances that somebody really cares.
Of course, while all that crap is going on our vaunted leader, King George II, continues to make cooing noises while he basks in near blissful ignorance the natural end result of an infantile self-gratification of addictive power while his handlers and enablers rock him to sleep. As the poster boy for a created political Disneyland Dear George is perfect.
The King is beloved by those of the financial oligarchy who hypocritically and sing his praises and jack up his over-inflated ego by telling him that he can win the war in Iraq. With his legacy clearly written and sealed as “America’s worst president” King George’s men titter behind their hands, rolling their eyes to high heaven at having installed a moron in the White House. Nobody tells him that he’s a severely limited man suffering from delusions of grandeur and plagued by a severe psychological trauma.
Full of himself and propped up by this opportunistic and rapacious band, the King now believes with absolute certitude in his own infallibility and divine ordination, so much so that he fancies himself as the reincarnation of the Messiah who is called to wage “a civilizing” war against the Muslim Hordes in the Middle East. In the midst of these developments the American populace has become numbed, slouching, slack-jawed, passive and Beer swigging, replacing collective progressive public activism, one of the benchmarks of a functional democracy, with Internet bravado and weak-kneed, sporadic half-hearted responses.
Sadly, the ordinary American television, radio and newspaper consumer, is bombarded 24/7 by a desensitizing brew of targeted advertising, public relations gimmicks, corporate spin and the opinions of talking heads and sundry experts promoting a national confusion that reigns supreme. This blitzkrieg has inundated, overwhelmed and bloodied the American thought process and jettisoned the old methodologies that hitherto worked to make sure that that checks and balances remain in the system.
Today, runaway crony capitalism has turned the tables on the best intensions of the Republic by making ALL those former independent institutions part of its controlled domestic empire. Indeed, the corrupt present system generously rewards those individuals who have mastered the art of impersonating human traits and responses in utterly contrived environments. Arrogance and cynicism now rule supreme.
This trade-off has resulted in the American populace getting information about itself, the world and the state of the Republic from a thoroughly bought and paid for media where pervasive phoniness, lies and mass deceit are valued commodities to “get ahead” and the traits that made “news fit to be read.” It therefore is not surprising that this privileged media layer thrives in these woefully artificial settings creating an ethos that drips with hypocrisy, disloyalty, dishonesty, tribalism and selfishness.
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