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Breaking the
Media-Induced Trance
By Vincent L Guarisco
As the Bush administration lurches on, scarcely questioned, it
will be all but impossible to inform our fellow citizens of the
many horrific injustices that plague our society. Our corporate
knife-in-the-back media quickly and blatantly censors anything
negative about George Bush by either covering up or deleting all
relevant evidence. The roll-over of
US
mainstream media is one of the most devastating scandals in our
history -- there is scarcely a hint of honest,
diversified journalism. Yet the information floodgates
remain wide open and we are literally drowning
in state-sponsored propaganda. It's like we're swimming at
night in shark-infested waters with no life raft in sight.
George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright and critic, 1856-1950) had a valid
point to make when he wrote, "Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to
discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of
civilization."
Or perhaps historian and author Howard Zinn has the bigger
reality picture. Zinn said, "If those in charge of our society
-- politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television
-- can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will
not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
I think the combination of the two say it perfectly!
More times than not it will be an ever-worsening struggle attempting to
inform others around us who are blissfully carrying on,
seemingly without a worry in the world. However, understanding
the matrix of madness will be a rare quality worth memorizing before the
hypocrisy is totally cloaked in secrecy. As corporate morality
becomes non-existent, and deregulation accelerates, accountability will be
a hard case to prove.
Perhaps some will think I am over-reacting, but if you stop and think, the
day we were warned about is here -- most of us no longer have a
substantial voice in our society, and very soon, word of mouth could quite
possibly be the only tool left for us to counter the
megaphoned liars. Regardless, we must not give up the struggle for
spreading truth and freedom to those confused; our children's birthright
is depending on our success!
Although, it may seem like the "Nodwells" among us will never
get curious, excited or upset with anything that is happening in their
media-induced make-believe world, it is not as it appears; sooner or
later, they will ultimately wish to be saved from an increasingly
volatile world that is only now beginning to crumble and collapse around
them.
Those of us who feel we're the lonely voices of logic are more
important than we may ever realize, those not in-the-know will desperately
need our knowledge and guidance to calm the obstinate cries of betrayal.
We must be ready, and be there, for them in order to manifest
and embolden a unified force that will eventually stop this tyranny.
The wise will continue to cultivate and develop the fellowship
needed to further our right to live free. Regardless if we are met
with rolling eyes, daunting glares and feeble arguments
from those who cling to the hubris, deep down most of them will
subconsciously listen to the lonely voice of reason. Even as they scurry
away in confusion and/or denial we will have left a subliminal imprint on
their whimpering servitude. Eventually -- as life gets worse in
their inner circle -- they will ultimately flock back to reason and sanity
-- to truth. And, when enough of them have returned, only then
will the gilded age of brainwashing be broken.
Funny how life's little ironies always seem to make the full circle.
Truly, what goes around -- comes around.
It's like a hovering analogy-cloud that lingers above the mist
that haunts those who fraudulently repress large populations of people in
the name of "National Security." At first, the peasants
embrace repression in order to remain safe, then they tolerate it to
feel protected and, eventually they hate it. They
become resentful of the protectors who enslave them and, in due
time, will almost always revolt in disobedience. Freedom is a
glorious boomerang -- it's a wondrous hive full of spiritual honey called
"human nature" that beckons the soul to be free -- a natural
elixir that will forever replenish itself regardless of fake promises of
"security." Even more so for those who have experienced it and
then lost it, it will not be denied!
History is full of past examples of those who have controlled populations
of the many to serve the selfish goals of the few through deceit and
manipulation. And although many historians have a conflicting view of
how they repeatedly accomplished this feat, they all agree that each and
every tyrant of power has met the same fate. I'm sure you'll appreciate
the following as one of those well-deserved lessons of history:
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip
the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the
mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood
boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in
seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with
fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the
leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I
am Caesar." -- Julius Caesar
Did any of us really believe that simply understanding the matrix was
enough? I certainly hope not! In fact -- because we do understand
the grand canard, it puts us in the point position of our pivotal platoon
to act as a guiding compass to help our lost countrymen and women
find their way. We must lead them off the media-induced,
war-beaten, fear-mongering path propagated by the Bush regime, and steer
them into safer territory, smoother waters -- a "higher ground,"
where trickery by fear has no magical behavior-modification power.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher warned us in 121
A.D., "The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know
anything about the subject."
Marcus is correct; therefore, I consider all of us drafted modern-day
minutemen whose sole purpose is to inform. We are on a quest to
bring our nation up to speed. This assignment is the most patriotic gift
one could give -- the gift of knowledge and truth that will preserve and
save our precious way of life for generations to come. I am truly
honored to march by your side!
We share a common goal -- a desire for fulfillment of sacred trust in
those who govern, a trust that will take generations to repair and will
never be devoid of difficulties. But perhaps together we can birth a
higher sphere of self-realization for ourselves, and those around us
-- a unity that creates new philosophical concepts for a higher realm
of universal moral purity, one which makes possible intuitions that
transcends vulnerability into prevention.
As a nation, we deserve no less. Together, we can break the trance.
Vincent L Guarisco is a freelance writer from Bullhead City, Arizona,
a contributing writer for many web sites, and a lifetime founding member
of the
Alliance
of Atomic Veterans. Replies welcomed at vincespainting1@hotmail.com
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