America... Tear
down the wall before it's too late.
*By Ziad K. Abdelour
I am afraid America
makes less sense every day.
Little
children are randomly slaughtered in their schoolrooms. Predator drones roam
the skies over foreign countries exterminating bad guys, along with innocent
women and children (collateral damage when it occurs in a foreign country).
Drugged up mentally ill kids with no hope and no future live lives of secluded
quiet desperation until they snap. Ignorant, government educated welfare
dependent drones with no self respect or respect for others, assault, kill and
rob within their government created urban ghettoes. Sociopaths who committed
the largest financial crime in world history walk free and continue to occupy
executive suites in luxury office towers in downtown NYC, collecting millions
in bonuses as compensation for crushing the American middle class. Academics,
whose theories have been thoroughly disproven, continue to steer our economy
into an iceberg while accelerating the money printing and debt issuance that
will sink our ship of state. Corrupt, bought off politicians pander to the
lowest common denominator as their votes are only dependent upon who
contributed the most to their election campaigns, which never end. Delusional,
materialistic, narcissistic, math challenged consumers (formerly known as
citizens - live for today, enslave them in debt, vote themselves more
entitlements, and care not for future generations.
We
have increasingly foresworn the concept of citizenship and replaced it with the
me-first culture of entitlement. We are no longer members of a community
with civic values. We have become predators, parasites, and consumers,
contributing nothing to those around us except carbon dioxide and the bills
and responsibilities for our mess. The alienation and isolation created
by our sprawling, automobile dependent, technology obsessed, government
controlled, debt financed society has spread like a cancerous tumor, slowly
killing our country. We are a society of paradoxes. We have many connections,
but "connect" with fewer and fewer. We communicate with many
more people but seem to communicate only rarely. We use earbuds, IPods
and other devices to shut off reality, and then feel exasperation when we sense
that no one understands us. We give up our privacy voluntarily, forgetting the
proper boundaries between the public and private, then feign outrage when the
government surveills us. We rush to judge and condemn others mercilessly,
yet our new national pastime is the search for the approval of others, to be
"liked" on Face book. We demand genuineness in others yet employ
public relations specialists and technology gurus to scrub our Internet
reputations. We communicate with abandon, and then feel shame when we realize
we can neither choose our audience nor compel its approval of us.
The
government oppression and never ending wars waged by the American Empire around
the world have created a society built upon fear of disapproval and
loathing of rejection. We are a "soft" nation, a
"soft" people, and all this dysfunction is rooted in psychological,
collective dysfunctions. This nation can be brought to its knees if its enemies
can merely "shut us down" and make us feel uncomfortable. Removing
our creature comforts -- the technology which feeds our need to "keep
up," to be "plugged in," -- which have become a form of mental
addiction to many in our educated classes leaves too many of our opinion
leaders and elected leaders vulnerable to pressures. We fear adversity,
shun responsibility, yet root for sports teams and stars -- others -- who
embody these values. We are a lazy nation. Work has become something for
other people to do.
Since
1979, Total Credit Market Debt in the United States has risen from $4.3
trillion to $55.3 trillion, a 1,286% increase in 33 years. Over this same time
frame total wages and salaries have risen from $1.3 trillion to $6.9 trillion,
a 531% increase. GDP has grown from $2.6 trillion to $15.8 trillion, a 608%
increase. Luckily for the oligarchs, the math challenged masses don’t
understand that 375% of the increase in GDP is strictly due to Federal Reserve
created inflation, as the U.S. dollar has lost 68% of its purchasing power
since 1979. This GDP growth was driven by debt, with consumer expenditures
rising from 61% of GDP in 1979 to 71% of GDP today. In the one hundred years
since the creation of the Federal Reserve the country’s population has tripled,
while our public debt and unfunded liabilities have risen from $2 billion to
over $200 trillion, a ten million percent increase.
The masses have been programmed and conditioned to love their debt servitude
and yearn for more debt to fix an economic system that collapsed due to
excessive debt. The cadre of ruling elite is obliging by creating debt at hyper
speed levels. The corporate media, Wall Street shysters and low-life captured
politicians assure the sheep-like masses that this is normal and beneficial to
their interests, as the sheep are sheared and led to slaughter.
Just
a cursory examination of our society reveals a population of salivating
consumers (dogs) who can be stimulated to buy the latest iPhone or techno-gadget
with a simple Madison Avenue advertising campaign (bell). Everyone has seen the
videos of the masses lining up like cattle on Black Friday, stampeding
through aisles, and fighting each other like their the entertainment at Michael
Vick’s house on a Saturday night. All the mega-corporate retailers
and the corporate media have to do is ring a bell (SALE) and the dogs start
salivating. Product placement, Hollywood star endorsements and influential
people using a product immediately convince the easily manipulated dogs to
salivate and purchase the products. The difference is that these
dogs have credit cards issued by the Wall Street banks and funded by the
Federal Reserve with dollars created out of thin air. We are inundated with
millions of TV, newspaper, radio, billboard, and internet advertisements
designed to make us salivate (spend).
In
reality our “technological progress” has done nothing more than create a
humorless, shallow, superficial world of alienation and egocentric desires.
Just as in Huxley’s Brave New World, science and technology have not been used
to seek truth and advance our culture. They have been used by the
State to censor, control, and monitor the citizens. They use technology as a
means to create electronic entertainment machines that generate both harmless
leisure and the high levels of consumption and production that are the basis of
societal stability and state designed happiness. When those in control talk
about progress, they mean greater control over our lives. When the consumption
of material goods isn’t enough to fill the holes within our souls, our owners
are quick to prescribe a pill to smooth over those feelings of unease and
discontent.”In America the
government controlled drug industry has thousands of pills to treat every
ailment or unhappy thought that might ail you. Just don’t try and treat
yourself with an unapproved natural or banned substance. The threat of
imprisonment always lurks in the shadows. They just want us to be
interchangeable bricks in the wall.
We
glorify technology even though it encourages the building of brick walls,
creating a self-imposed isolation from society. The traditional family unit has
been discarded, with 50% of marriages ending in divorce and 43% of all children
born out of wedlock. Millions of families are dysfunctional, with parents too
busy with their careers and acquiring material possessions, to bother with
raising their children in a loving nurturing way. One in ten American adults
choose to escape their man made cells with prescription anti-depressants.
Almost one in four women in their 40s and 50s are popping pills to escape their
depressing lives. The wealthy think medicating their kids, spoiling them with
toys, gadgets and cars, and occupying their days with organized sports and
activities passes for involved parenting. Poor urban children are lucky if they
ever lay eyes on their father. Ignorance, violence, and dependency are a given
for most of these kids. And all of these children are matriculated into the
government run schools whose sole purpose is to teach kids what to think,
rather than how to think. Indeed, the recent emphasis on testing and
performance seems to be at the expense of actual teaching of critical,
analytical thinking. Our owners need to keep us “happy” and focused on
feelings, material possessions, and an infinite number of distractions, so they
can retain control and continue their pillaging of the national wealth.
Our
leaders have attempted to design their own Brave New World, retaining control
by making America’s citizens so contented and superficially fulfilled that they
no longer care about their personal freedoms, liberties and civic
responsibilities. The consequences of increasing state power are a loss of
dignity, morals, values, and emotions. We are losing our humanity. Decades of
media propaganda, public education mind control, and peddling of debt convinced
the majority that happiness meant immediate gratification of our desires for
food, sex, drugs, clothes, iGadgets, and all the other consumer crap made in
corporate sponsored slave labor factories across Asia. These delusional
hallucinations of happiness are the prison walls we’ve built brick by
brick.
It
took the intellectuals and progressives that wield power across the land only
moments to hijack the feelings of sorrow and pain sweeping the nation, to
misdirect attention from the mental illnesses caused by the society they’ve
created, towards the false storyline that gun violence is sweeping the land. In
reality, violent crime has been falling for over a decade as gun sales have
soared. The homicide rate in this country is the lowest since 1964, with the
vast majority of homicides occurring in the urban kill zones created by the
five decade long progressive war on poverty. The truth is of no interest to
those brandishing power. After decades of conditioning, the masses are
psychologically captive to the messages designed to make them salivate. They
will be compelled to think, feel and act as instructed by the Alphas. There
will be calls for more police, despite the fact that police rarely stop a
crime. With all of their armaments, technology, high powered weaponry, and
political clout, they can be counted on to arrive five minutes after the
tragedy is over. But they are brilliant in luring clueless Muslim teenagers
into terrorist plots, picking the target, providing the fake bombs, and taking
credit for foiling the plots they created. More union police officers will
increase our safety as much as more union teachers have made our kids smarter.
This tragedy will be used by the propagandists to impose further restrictions
upon those who choose personal responsibility and self-reliance over dependency
and trust in the efficiency and fairness of our benevolent government
overlords.
I
mourn for the children being raised in a society run by evil psychopathic liars
that use the power of propaganda and the tools of debt to control and
manipulate its citizens. I mourn for unborn generations that will be forced to
confront the dreadful depraved chaos created by our culture of egocentric greed
and narcissism. The things we value in this culture – accumulating wealth,
outward beauty, acquisition of material possessions, instant gratification,
access to debt, government control, and curing our ills with drugs – are
driving us insane. Who is really abnormal in a profoundly abnormal society? The
'new normal' is anything but. Believing that possessions, more laws or
another medication will truly make us happy -- or safe -- is insane.
Popping a pill, buying a new iPhone, or passing another law will not cure the
disease that permeates this nation. We need to recapture the humanity, civic
pride and self-responsibility that built this country. Only an awakened
populace can change our course.
George
Orwell was afraid that what we fear would ruin us. The oligarchs have pushed
the Orwell vision to its sustainable limit. The avarice and greed of these
invisible power brokers has devoured the vast resources of the nation. These
psychopaths weren’t satisfied with siphoning off most of the wealth of the
country. They wanted it all and wrecked the global economy in their odious
pursuit of mammon. We are now in the death throes of the most decadent,
delusional, debt engendered era in the long history of mankind. Those in power
realize it is slipping away. Their “solutions” reflect an air of desperation.
Their propaganda efforts have been redoubled. As more middle class workers lose
their jobs, more young people graduate from college with tens of thousands in
student loan debt and a future of dramatically reduced expectations, and more
people are driven beyond their breaking point, this materialistic shroud of
happiness will be torn asunder. Anger is building like a lava dome within a
volcano. A critical thinking minority are questioning the motives of those in
power. There is already a palpable degradation in behavior, a rise in
passive-aggressive behavior as people try to respond rationally; to compensate
for what they sense has been lost to the unfairness, hypocrisy and shallowness
of the society and system around them. The unsustainability of our
economic paradigm is certain. The seeds of revolution are being sown. Our
society is only fantasy. The wall is too high. It will be up to an irate
tireless minority of freedom minded citizens to tear down the wall. The
alternative is to allow the worms to eat into our brains. Each of us must
answer a simple question. Are you just another brick in the wall?
The
oligarchs will not give up without a fight. Their realization that the Brave
New World method of controlling the masses has run its course has
convinced them to shift their methods towards Orwell’s 1984 tactics.
What
are you doing to counter these growing threats in the making?
You’d
better wake up to reality.
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