This approximates the problem. It’s much worse. It fails to take into account the role that the media play in softening up our collective psyche. Our beloved republic is witnessing a disintegration of the Left. The necessary counterbalance. A viable vision of direction. We’re unable to appreciate neoliberalism and statist perversions camouflaging as platform. No clue as to class warfare. We’re prisoners of an autocratic oligarchy. But don’t hurt our feelings or abrade our think skin. The SJWs will find you and you’ll taste their wrath.
“Oh, little snowflakes, when did you all become grandmothers and society matrons, clutching your pearls in horror at someone who has an opinion about something, a way of expressing themselves that’s not the mirror image of yours, you sniveling little weak-ass narcissists?” Bret Easton Ellis
We’re a silly lot. We love to pretend we’re informed. But nary a clue have we. Except when it comes to sports. Oh, we’re most deft and adept and adroit at parsing the issues and waxing authoritative. But who’s really in charge? Who runs the show?
Banksters, Sparky. “The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. . . . You have owners.” (George Carlin, The American Dream) Hillary Clinton is a Wall Steet shill, puppet and warmonger. When did our predacious imperialism become manifest? “Making the world safe for democracy” was President Woodrow Wilson’s rationale for World War I, and it has been used to justify American military intervention ever since. Can we justify sending troops into other countries to spread a political system we cannot maintain at home? (Ellen Brown)
“When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: “Why do I care if my high school’s team wins the football game? I don’t know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me… why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense.” But the point is, it does make sense: It’s a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it’s training in irrational jingoism. That’s also a feature of competitive sports.” (Chomsky)