Turn the Tables?
Scaring the masses is a tried and true tactic of despotic regimes that America's corpocracy adopted. It is past due time to scare the masses from a different angle, that of convincing them that their station in life and that of their descendents will continue to deteriorate until it is too late to live. The devil is in the details naturally for who will do the convincing and how? Who has enough resources and ingenuity to outwit the corporate media and governments' tactics?
There is no lack of facts available about how the corpocracy is turning America into a ruination. But who will compile, digest and disseminate them to the general public? Certainly not the National Museum of American History in the nation's capital. Its exhibit on "The Price of Freedom: Americans at War" says David Swanson, activist, author, and Nobel peace laureate nominee a few years ago and leader of the Beyond War organization, "---is an extravaganza of lies and deceptions," but then adds that "---overwhelmingly the lying is done in this exhibit by omission. Bad past excuses for wars are ignored, the death and destruction is ignored or falsely reduced."51 Certainly not the National Library of Congress or the Presidential Libraries! America needs instead a mobile "Peoples' Library" navigating throughout the nation dispensing eye appealing and readable exhibits and facts. The Corporate Crime Watch group would be one good source for that library.52 I cannot imagine that any large PR firms would volunteer to help. They are too busy promoting and whitewashing the corpocracy.
Seize the Moments
America is a large diverse nation with countless happenings around the clock. Among them are opportunities to be magnified in confronting the corpocracy. To take just one example, investors are telling the auto industry "to move to low carbon--or else."53 What is needed is an organization like the proposed USCD, whether an online or bricks and mortar one, to track such opportunities and then magnify them to a "tipping point" and beyond.
A Final Word, Finally
My analogy of Don Quixote was deliberate. And I have used it before. Throughout my entire career I tilted at the windmills of various government agencies. Near the end of my career I coauthored an article, "Tilting at the Bureaucracy," with a gentleman, since deceased, who was then the Federal government's highest ranking civil servant.54 Even he was no match for the Fed's windmill. But as big as it is it is miniscule compared to that of the entire corpocracy.
If we are to have any chance of being good ancestors of the future we must not give up, not be fatalistic, not be pessimistic. We must continue the quest! We must continue tilting at the corpocracy's windmill until it stops turning.
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