Moreover, whilst we are being swamped tsunami-like with all manner of information -- mostly of the "dis" and "mis" kind -- by the glorified stenographers and self-exalted errand boys/girls who populate the MSM, rendering us incapable in our inert, submissive and self-absorbed state of taking time out to 'smell the flowers' instead of 'popping the soma', we are also being deprived of information.
Herein, one only needs to contemplate the amount and type of information we are being deprived of, the lengths to which ruling elites go to keep it from the public, and the Pavlovian vilification that ensues from those same elites toward those with the wherewithal and the courage to expose it. The glaring anomaly here is that whilst the U.S. government seeks to amass increasing amounts of information about us by ever more insidious means and for spurious motives, they are seeking newer and more innovative ways to prevent us finding out what they are up to with commensurately mounting, ever draconian penalties applied to those who somehow get past the gatekeepers.
As noted they are gleefully abetted herein by their Praetorian guardians. The Washington Post's Fareed Zakaria's righteous grandstanding over the most recent Wikileaks revelations is but one more example of just how beholden the MSM brands are to protecting the elites' agenda and obfuscating the more potent realities of the Deep State milieu and the sordid secrets of the governing classes from its readership.
At the same time, we are being drowned in an ocean of irrelevance, banality and crass frivolity, the show goes on (as it must). The audience, for the most part, is oblivious to -- or blase' about -- the fact that the "show" they are experiencing is a Bizarro amalgam of a beauty pageant cum popularity contest, part scripted reality TV show and unscripted Kabuki-like soap-opera, and a master illusionist's live, real-time stage performance all rolled into one convenient, one-stop-shop emporium of fatuous entertainment delights, with a conga-line of carny barkers out front beckoning all to come on in, sit down, shut up and enjoy the spectacle.
More than being complacent, we are complicit in bringing about our own personal, social, economic and psychological subjugation and enervation. The much-vaunted attention economy then has now morphed into a distraction economy, beckoning a disaster in the making for justice, liberty, freedom and the application of the rule of law in an authentic, fully functional, freethinking liberal democracy -- already in varying degrees as we now know under ever increasing assault 1984 style -- in the country that purports to hold the IP rights on these and allied precepts. Trump's recent Tweeting duel with Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a former 'moofie' star turned politician and now erstwhile reality TV show host, provides hard evidence if it was needed Postman was 'mos def' onto something.
Which is to say, that the POTUS himself is as addicted to these distractions as much if not more so as any of the rest of us mere mortals should be of great concern to even those who voted for him. Although as a politician he's hardly cornered the market on doing so, Trump for his part is at once a master at creating said distractions whilst in his case especially, being a slave to them. This would be an exceedingly worrying affair for any major political leader (even in a time of relative geopolitical stability and security), but especially one in a position to ignite a nuclear war at this point in our history, the latter reality bestowing on his well-worn catchphrase/meme "You're fired", a whole new lease on life. Well might we say: 'Welcome to the state of public discourse in the age of show business', 2017-style.
Whoever it was that originally declared [that], 'politics is show business for ugly people' may not have had someone like Donald Trump in mind, but politics has for decades been a show-business affair, and a decidedly ugly, sordid one at that. Again, we might opine that Trump -- already the owner of the rights to the world's biggest beauty pageant Miss Universe -- is now the owner (at least for the present) of the rights to the world's greatest ugly contest, one where every contestant is assured of a prize, said "prize" being one almost always coming at the cost of their heartland constituents! And it is in America where -- from one end of the political spectrum to the other, one whose 'geometry' has always been more circular than linear -- the show-business metaphor reaches its apotheosis and is where the practitioners of this quintessential manifestation of the more abhorrent impulses of the human condition don't come much uglier!
Despite what the liberal elites inside the MSM, and their so-called 'snowflake' acolytes and 'butt-hurt' cadres might like to argue, Trump isn't necessarily the best (worst?) example of the latter; he just happens to be the latest incarnation. His elevation as president is a direct result of an olfactory malfunction on their part -- put crudely, their inability to detect or failure to acknowledge the putrid aroma of their own righteous excrement. Small wonder then the Great Unwashed (aka the 'Deplorables') holds them in such contempt, and that Trump -- a president whose elevation to the White House was the direct result of unprecedented liberal media exposure as much as it was from his appeal amongst said "Deplorables" -- gets away with behaviour that would deep-six most other politicians. Some say Americans don't do irony. This writer begs to differ.
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