or that a not-so-invisible hand signs the legislation
that makes foreign and domestic American policy
and turns what started as participatory democracy
into a Donner Party version of economics.
Americans don't want
to hear, to see, to speak, or to feel
anything
about what's actually happening to them
or being done in their name,
but most of all they don't want to
THINK
because thinking leads to
cognitive dissonance and confronting the pain
of knowing how the American lifestyle
is, and has been, maintained.
But the aversion therapy administered in schools
and cultural reinforcement thereafter
keeps them safely away from
the TRUTH,
imprisoned like dogs
with electronic shock collars.
And besides, they're so busy with their shopping,
which is Americans' ultimate function,
that they don't have the time to tune into
what that "little voice" has been trying to tell them
that this system relentlessly perpetuates itself
by means of infinite, unlimited growth,
which it carries on by any means necessary
like a parasite that strangles its host.
It HAS to kill the goose (that's us)
who lays the Gross Domestic Product Golden Egg
because it's a no-holds-barred, winner-take-all,
every man on his own for himself free-for-all
until there are no eggs left to take.
It's not 'til they're drowning in hubris and debt
and the system turns around and stings them
that Americans are willing to hear what they already knew -
the scorpion is corporate capitalism.
"Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience. he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code." - Carl Gustav Jung
