Abused By Illusions

I reprinted this comment I made to a rant on Dubya Bush that juliepoolie posted on her blog to try and help me keep my train of thought on this. Skip it if if bores ya:)

Sadly, most people cannot think outside the paradigm provided for them by the mainstream media pundits. With the exception of the few of us die hards that still remember what a conscience is most folks don't care. They are too busy trying to pay for the new Lexus, the latest home theater system, and so forth ad nauseaum!

Their line of reasoning runs something like: if it's not happening in their backyard or atleast in their gated community why should they care. You can talk to them till your blue in the face it seems. It has been my experience though that all you get is blue in the face. Most of our fellow inmates in what is fast becoming the New American facist state fear the cognitive dissonance assosiated with critical thought far more than they do the cataclysms coming if we continue on our countries present path. Through the education system, the media, and popular culture they have been indoctrinated into the herd mentality and are only capable of group think.

A good example of this is how the media says the state of Israel is good and the Palastenians are evil terrorist. The Israelis bulldoze entire towns and indiscriminatley kill many men, women, and children with their rocket fire from their US provided Apache helicopters. We are led to beleive, by the media, that this is good as the Israelis are fighting terrorism. Why does it matter that the Israelis are wearing a nations uniform and acting under color of their national law? If we compare body counts who has terrorized whom more? In this instance I think the key difference in the two parties is that the Israelis donate large sums of money to US political parties through various lobbies and the Palestinians do not. Do we ever hear this in the media?

Sorry to have gotten long winded but it is indeed good to see others outraged by the plague of apathy and outright hypocrisy infecting the country. Part of what I believe the problem to be is how effective the use of the hegelian dialectic has been at rendering this preplanned outcome (the herd mentality, general apathy etc) for the political elites that run our country. Thats one of the things we'll be looking at soon on Abused by Illusions if your interested.

Rant on!

© C.I. Abramson 2004

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