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OUR MOST LUCID VOICES
Paul Edwards
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Paul Edwards
Cynics say in absolutisms people are told not to think, whereas, in free societies they are told what to think. Is that different?
In The Empire, we’ve been told what to think for generations, but rather than it resulting in our minds being effectively controlled, it has ended in crippling them and making us insane as a people.
Insanity is defined as “a mental disease that prevents people from understanding the nature of their actions or distinguishing right from wrong”. Concise and easily understood.
The result of mind control on Americans that drove us insane—was not a mistake. It was a happy outcome for our overlords, replacing the difficult task of managing our beliefs. If inability to “distinguish right from wrong” is the point of mind control, then inducing insanity in a whole people is the way to go.
That’s what our imperial elite decided in working their will on the Great Unwashed for so long and so well. It was begun long ago, judging by our collective behavior. The lunacy that permits us to passively accept the attack on Iran is an old phenomenon. Our insanity can be traced back easily to the end of WWII.
The desire, or compulsion, of a nation to manage the beliefs of its people, is a powerful imperative, because a government has to have at least the tacit support of its people for whatever that nation is doing. This would not have to be induced if what it was doing was unquestionably benign, harmless, and laudable.
It is in the nature of states, though, to act in self interest in ways that injure other states. Economic competition usually brings political hostility with it, and frequently war, particularly if it is malicious, underhanded, and covertly criminal.
When a state acts in a way that is evil and dangerous to others, natural, spontaneous approval is not likely from a subject people. Their view and interpretation of it has to be altered, and approval elicited by any means necessary, commonly by deceit and denial.
America is, and has been since its founding, a fierce, aggressive Capitalist state that evolved into the most powerful economic empire in history. Because the sole purpose of Capitalism is to generate profit, it functions free of ethical concerns and is entirely indifferent to its dire effects on the natural world and people.
This being true, America faced the continual problem of inspiring its people to robustly support the inherently vicious, predatory Capitalist tactics by which it sought relentlessly to control and exploit the entire planet for its unlimited aggrandizement.
It meant the American state had to create, nurture, and maintain a totally dishonest relationship with its own people. Instead of being truthful about the vast harm and injustice it perpetrated in the world, it had to develop a vast, clandestine industry of deception whose sole purpose was to convince Americans their country acted always in perfect accord with the ideals enshrined in its Constitution, although they were not honored in practice.
Great examples of the grip of our mass insanity were the wars in Korea and Vietnam. These were fought by America to prevent their peoples from overthrowing elites who kept them enslaved and exploited, and taking their governance in their own hands. Had Americans been sane they would never have allowed it.
In both wars, The Empire lied outright to keep our insanity active in support of the cruelest betrayals of people striving for justice. Their success in managing our inability to judge right from wrong let our “leaders” waste fifty thousand of our own catatonic lives.
Throughout the Cold War, everything The Empire did was done to stifle and defeat peoples’ revolutions for economic and political freedom by the suffering oppressed, long colonized, abused, robbed, and devastated by morally rotten, pitiless Capitalism.
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The destruction of the towers, a desperate act of ethical resolve, was the high water mark of our collective insanity, when the entire nation was persuaded not only that it was it a mad act of irrational malevolence, but that it had no justification, and was done in spite for our many virtues and in hatred of our “freedom”.
The national response to it was the last time mass insanity held us absolutely. As its slow decay progressed, the absurd and humiliating lunacies of the “War on Terror” punched holes in the armor of our inability to judge right from wrong, so that it no longer kept the hermetic seal on ethical thinking it had had for so long. The lies that secured it had finally become so idiotically childish and preposterous they could not mend the mechanism.
There has been, so far, only minimal change in the dynamic. The vast majority of Americans are still spiritually frozen in their ability to judge right and wrong. Many undoubtedly find it punishing to undergo the harrowing ice-bath of facing and accepting that they were rendered insane by their own government. This is why the public is so torpid and braindead about the treacherous attack on Iran made for the sake of the toxic nation of evil Zionist Jews.
In cases of insanity, especially where it has been entrenched for long, recovery in individuals, or even attaining the capacity to live in society, is rare. It may be that recovery of a nation is yet less likely. We may march on, blind and dumb, till our psychotic ruling clique reaches its goal, and provokes our ultimate destruction.
Then we may rage in grief, as Lear did, beating his fists against his skull, and crying: “O, Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this gate that let thy folly in, and thy dear judgment out!”.
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