26-01-2014, 03:59 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:Sadly, all too many American have been trained via propaganda to not believe or trust evidence-based reality; rather they engage in magical thinking [America is exceptional and some god's will; owning more stuff makes one a more important and better person; bad food is good for you; Nature is not to be trusted as much as the unnatural; War is Peace; the Amerikan Government is still functional and working in the best interests of the People; we have a democracy; it's OK to have a class system in the USA; The two party system covers the range of political/social thought; a private bank can run our monetary system - that's fine; the CIA, FBI, NSA and all the 20-odd others are boyscouts working for the good of the People; big conspiracies are impossible; American has the best healthcare in the world; TV is reality - reality is TV; all the strange changes in weather can be chalked up to flukes; I'm not involved - don't ask me to think, less so to act.....besides I'm afraid of the consequences of both thinking and acting; etc.]
Love it. You should print and frame this post and put it on your wall for posterity Pete.
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Gee....and when I posted it I felt badly for having left out many other things I had in mind on the topic [the 'etc.']....
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass