The first
time I thought about war with guns and soldiers
that weren't made out of plastic was in the spring of '63
when they were already preparing the killing fields of Vietnam [1]
and Dallas. The Whiz Kids and Smarty Pants McGeorge
were playing dominoes with our lives because [2]
they thought we had to stand with South Vietnam.
How could they be so stupid? was my confused
and unanswered question until one night a quarter
of a century later when the stars lined up and I saw it
on TV. I was the stupid one. They were lying. [3]
JFK was in
the way because war is a racket
and we are penny ante in a game worth billions. [4]
But why the
public execution and a fairy tale
that half the population never fell for anyway [5]
when a pill in his coffee or a well-planned accident [6]
would have raised no questions and we wouldn't be wondering
to this day how the "Best and the Brightest" on our side [7]
like Chomsky and Hedges could be as stupid as the stupid [8]
half of the population who believe in magic
bullets and disappearing brains or who like me
for a long time, just didn't think about it.
Vince got it from the get-go: a transparent conspiracy [9]
meant for the body politic to understand
little by little as we boil, like the proverbial frog. [10]
They've got us by the balls. Not even presidents
are safe. Resistance is futile so don't even try.
9/11 was
also meant to break our stupid
bubble but it didn't. Most prefer to believe
another even more "outrageous" fairy tale [11]
of Mohammed Atta and the 19 Arabs performing
miracles like Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves [12]
defying NORAD, the laws of physics and common sense.
It still took me four years and David Griffin
but Chomsky never got it, and Tulsi Gabbard [13]
believed so strongly in it she went to war.
Now after
another quarter of a century
after JFK and Vietnam, 9/11 and the Terror Wars [14]
after Julian Assange to show us that journalism is dead
after provoking a proxy war in Ukraine [15]
and destroying the country to save it, American style [16]
after aiding and abetting Israeli genocide [17]
after the Germans decided to destroy themselves
through debt and deindustrialization after
letting the US blow up their pipelines to make sure
that Germany and Russia would not be friends and prosper [18]
that Germany instead would buy US fracking gas
after the Germans have decided to become "war-ready"[19]
again after killing 27 million Russians
in the last war, turning their backs on the most powerful country
in Europe that could snuff them in a matter of minutes
if need be but have never been anything but friendly to them
after prostrating themselves before one senile POTUS
and being left in the lurch by his unpredictable successor
unable to admit how unbelievably stupid they have been
and change their course of self-destruction, destruction
of Ukraine, destruction of Palestine, which will also destroy
Israel, when they could be the new leader of the Western world
join BRICS and set an example for multipolar
peace and prosperity, one can reasonably ask
How in the world can they be so stupid?
When the Deep State becomes the State there is no conspiracy [20]
The frog is cooked and everybody knows it.
If you don't stand with Ukraine you're a Putin-puppet.
If you don't stand with Israel you're an anti-Semite.
If you don't stand with Taiwan (looking forward)
you're a Commie. Thoughtcrimes are handled by experts
for example at the office to combat conspiracy-thinking.[21]
Keep up with the news on TV, not on the internet.
Don't read anything by anyone with any sense. [22]
Don't ask who lied about expanding NATO.
Don't ask who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines.
Don't ask who terrorized the ethnic Russians in Donbas.
Don't ask whose taxes support the Nazis in Ukraine.
Don't ask who pays for bombing children in Palestine.
Don't ask anything, just keep your trap shut. Then you'll know
how they, and you and I, can be so stupid.
[1] See "Why I Didn't Go to Vietnam."
[2] See "Whiz Kids (Department of Defense), "McGeorge Bundy," and "Domino theory," Wikipedia, all retr. Apr. 5, 2025.
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