WHO'S STUPID ; I am writing, today, inspired by the never-ending flow of news items showing politicians pandering to the phony ideologies promoted by our wealthy elites. We seem powerless, as citizens, to distinguish between reality and the pro-austerity, anti-human paranoia that permeates our culture. With stress increasing in our daily lives and the helplessness/hopelessness of trickle-down economics, many of us just can't think straight. To be sure, the wealthy elites who seek to continue in control want it this way. Gridlock is their briar patch; polarization their nirvana.
We humans make choices all the time. The question is whether they are informed by the intellect or just by our gut instincts. Gut instincts are powerful and important to understand, but there is a point at which we become lemmings, sheeple, herded ever so easily by our wealthy and powerful overlords. Kansas, today, and other States, seem so stressed and deranged by the damage done by the nation's wealthy elites and multinationals that a bolt of lightning or a well-placed code word may lead them to jump right off a cliff.
Historically, these situations included safety valves for the elites who manipulated our economy and destroying our way of life. The safety valve, often used by the manipulating elites included racism, sexism and anti-Semitism and corrupted, pseudo-reform movements. Ask a Native American. Ask a Jewish American. Ask an African American. Today, those "safety valves" are not present to defuse the rage and alienation that people feel. Instead, our nation is turning inward with its rage and blaming its own "government" and getting depressed, which is what happens when rage is turned inward.
Powerful remnants of racism, sexism and anti-Semitism are present, to be sure. The manipulators have been hard at work polarizing America and alienating us from our own power to have government set limits on the elites. But when people figure out that they are being manipulated by a wealthy aristocracy mutated on greed and gluttony, some of their rage will seep out in the direction of the manipulators. This time, perhaps, the majority will employ intellect along with instinct and aim for a more equal distribution of personal freedom and economic opportunity, just as it did when this nation was founded.
Why Our Wealthy Aristocratic Elites Are Out to Make America Stupid and Reverse the American Revolution - by Earon - Newsvine http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17706087-why-our-wealthy-aristocratic-elites-are-out-to-make-america-stupid-and-reverse-the-american-revolution
WHO'S STUPID ; I am writing, today, inspired by the never-ending flow of news items showing politicians pandering to the phony ideologies promoted by our wealthy elites. We seem powerless, as citizens, to distinguish between reality and the pro-austerity, anti-human paranoia that permeates our culture. With stress increasing in our daily lives and the helplessness/hopelessness of trickle-down economics, many of us just can't think straight. To be sure, the wealthy elites who seek to continue in control want it this way. Gridlock is their briar patch; polarization their nirvana.
ReplyDeleteWe humans make choices all the time. The question is whether they are informed by the intellect or just by our gut instincts. Gut instincts are powerful and important to understand, but there is a point at which we become lemmings, sheeple, herded ever so easily by our wealthy and powerful overlords. Kansas, today, and other States, seem so stressed and deranged by the damage done by the nation's wealthy elites and multinationals that a bolt of lightning or a well-placed code word may lead them to jump right off a cliff.
Historically, these situations included safety valves for the elites who manipulated our economy and destroying our way of life. The safety valve, often used by the manipulating elites included racism, sexism and anti-Semitism and corrupted, pseudo-reform movements. Ask a Native American. Ask a Jewish American. Ask an African American. Today, those "safety valves" are not present to defuse the rage and alienation that people feel. Instead, our nation is turning inward with its rage and blaming its own "government" and getting depressed, which is what happens when rage is turned inward.
Powerful remnants of racism, sexism and anti-Semitism are present, to be sure. The manipulators have been hard at work polarizing America and alienating us from our own power to have government set limits on the elites. But when people figure out that they are being manipulated by a wealthy aristocracy mutated on greed and gluttony, some of their rage will seep out in the direction of the manipulators. This time, perhaps, the majority will employ intellect along with instinct and aim for a more equal distribution of personal freedom and economic opportunity, just as it did when this nation was founded.
Why Our Wealthy Aristocratic Elites Are Out to Make America Stupid and Reverse the American Revolution - by Earon - Newsvine http://earon.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17706087-why-our-wealthy-aristocratic-elites-are-out-to-make-america-stupid-and-reverse-the-american-revolution
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