So I turn to the next available news channel and lo and behold they are discussing the same… Geesh, I got to turn this crap off.
On my drive home from work, I tune in to AM talk-radio hoping for some intelligent discussion. I typically listen to Savage or Beck, but it’s a bit early today, and as I’m scanning through my usual channels, guess what the topic of the day is? You got it--Spears! Holy cow--I’m really irritated now. Aren’t there any intelligent people out there? Aren’t there more important things going on in the world?
Maybe it’s not really the media’s fault, as they are only catering to the attention span of the majority--ignorant consumers who live for today and care more about Dancing with the Stars, Cribs, the latest celebrity gossip and the next football game spread than most anything else.
Possibly these folks are just trying to vicariously live through someone else’s experiences, wondering what it would be like to be rich and famous for a day. Perhaps it just that people are just too shallow and superficial to relate to the realities of the world--(oh, it’s all so confusing out there, so I’ll just stick with what I know).
Or maybe, just maybe, the media conglomerates have been successful in their efforts to dumb-down society to the point that by discounting real-world problems (and real-world solutions), the nation’s people stay ignorant/oblivious, while the monied elite influence government policy through new legislation—to their own benefit and bottom lines (example—outsourcing of jobs and the fleecing of America).
It’s all a facade:
No longer do we have a Government of the people for the people. Our leaders have been and are continuing to neglect us--to the benefit of corporate interests. Sure they make huge promises to get elected, but once in office, it’s all about the high power lobbyists and corporate bottom lines. I can’t tell you how disgusted I am with the current administration (who I helped to put in office) and the entire pack of leading presidential candidates—they are all con men/women who are going to tell you what you want to hear, get into office then turn the other cheek. Don’t believe for a minute that they care about you or your future—they are interested in themselves, their futures, their wallets and once in office they will act just like everyone else—bowing to corporate special interests.
Power and Greed are two very powerful forces:
Though I highly doubt our current and future politicians actually have a set agenda to intentionally harm our country, I do believe many of these elected leaders are just as ignorant as the masses who elected them, and once in office, the power and greed gets the best of them, and they are easily persuaded (by others who have already kowtowed to special interests) to work an agenda at the behest of corporate desires--unwittingly working to the detriment of the people and of the country…
The ironic part is: these detrimental agendas are usually sold to the public as “Good Things”… and we believe.
The sad part is: those who question the issues or who believe differently than the message our mainstream propagandists spew are labeled “Conspiracy Nuts” by the media and ignorant masses.
To summarize:
The media conglomerates constantly fill our brains with mush to distract us from reality, while politicians pass legislation to take away our rights, spend like drunken sailors, devalue our currency, outsource our jobs, increase our debt, take away our sovereignty (e.g. North American Union), ignore our immigration concerns, create booms, bubbles and busts, etc and the masses could care less, because American Idol is on tonight - the majority are oblivious, ignorant and happy and the powers that be like it that way…
As I stated in a previous post (3rd World America): American society has made it an accepted norm to be caught up in trivial things (fashion, keeping up with the Jones', reality TV, the latest unsolved murder mystery, sports, shopping, Hollywood, petty lawsuits, material things, etc), and the truly important things in life (family, values, education, hard work, social courtesies, respect, religion, caring for others, etc) have fallen by the wayside. Each and every day our brains are filled with mush and we become far too ignorant to realize that the things that once made us a great nation are slipping away.
Well, our once great nation is now collapsing before our eyes. Foreigners own HUGE PORTIONS of US Domestic Industries, Banks are insolvent (soon to fail w/banking runs), millions of families are going to lose their homes, inflation is raging, the dollar is tanking, Government spending is out of control, outsourcing continues, the North American Union plan continues while immigration issues are ignored, etc, yet we fail to open our eyes to see what is happening. It’s quite appalling that we’ve sunken this far and unless the masses pull their heads out of the sand quickly, we are doomed.
Randy
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And they want to raise my taxes? fuck 'em!......gold,silver and lots of "lead".
Keep your powder dry and shoot straight.
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I agree with everything you wrote. But for the life of me I can't understand why so many thoughtful and intelligent people voted for Obama. I've heard many people say they are disappointed with him, but that's because they didn't do their homework before they cast their vote. If they had, they would be aware that he is controlled by the same interest groups that control 98% of our politicians - the Israeli lobby AIPAC, Wall Street crooks, and the military industrial complex. I also can't understand why so many otherwise thoughtful people refuse to question the government's version of what happened on 9/11. Just my 2 cents.
I don't feel sorry for you and others who are "disappointed" in Obama. We were warning people months prior to Obama. But everyone was so carried away with his "change" speech, and his good looks, and we just got to have a black man in the white house and show the rest of the world that we are progressive. But the color of a man's skin is not what makes a man. It is what drives him. He was very clear by whom he associated with, by his political carrier as a senator (amazingly short), and even his taped speeches that showed what he believed. I feel sorry that our country is goiing to be destroyed before the American people learn their lesson and by then it will be too late because the laws and habits will already be in place. WE somehow don't know how to undo bad laws and spending.
Lots of mush out their alright.
Great decription
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