I've been watching quite a few documentaries lately, juggling theories, and contemplating major issues that I have at least had some awareness of, but not knowing quite the extent of the problems until researching and digging into everything further.
I've come to one conclusion so far - we're in some deep shit in the not-to-distant future if we don't come up with solutions to the toxic self-destruction bred into existence by our consumerist, industrialist, and very much socialized concepts of this culture that turns around and preachs naitivity to these very same issues.
It seems as though we've been held in a trance that is quite difficult by itself, to actually break from and view as such because of it's grasp on our minds before they developed the skills to reason and think logically. We've become a culture largely engaged in double think, to hold two contradictory viewpoints, knowing they are such, and still believing both of them.
I know I'm polluting the air I breathe by driving my SUV, but I just can't imagine how else I would get to work.
We are clever and creative; hell, even an industrious people, so why is it that we have not come up the solutions to destroying ourselves, our air, our water, and every living thing around us? The horseless carriage has been around for over 100 years, and we've all known for quite some time that it's emissions are toxic.
Why haven't we found alternatives? There have been alternatives developed, but not accepted yet into the mainstream, so we continue on with our outdated, toxic habits, waiting for that day that fades away like the quality of our air, and essentially, ourselves.
Similar to the degradation of our own habitat, we watch our basic human rights erode under umbrella names, such as 'protection' and 'security' or even 'freedom'. Those who legislate to restrict our freedoms actually have the audacity to use the very same terms as their excuse of why it must be done.
The "Patriot" Act?
There is not thing patriotic about sacrificing our privacy and civil rights for freedom. Benjamin Franklin warned us of this saying, "He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."
Why have we, as a majority, rejected the premise that this nation was born under, and brave men and women have fought and died for?
Why have we allowed a band of crooks and criminals into the highest offices of our now centralizing, federal government to wage immoral, illegal wars at home and abroad; to suspend habeas corpus, practice torture, spy on it's own citizens, and shift power from a now impotent congress, to the new branch of government called 'executive privilege' ?
Why do we allow our repugnant and cowardly president to pass the largest budget ($3.1 TRILLION) in the history of our nation, while in the midst of economic recession, an inflating dollar, and a housing and credit bubble- while the fed artificially inflates the dollar further by lowering interest rates and putting even more paper into circulation from thin air?
The federal bank (which is NOT federal) is not rescuing our economy by lowering interest rates, they are destroying our economy and the buying power of the dollar. Finally, some calls have been made for congressional hearings into why the chairman of the federal reserve is artificially inflating the dollar, though I doubt they'll go through with it. Businesses are even starting to accept euro's at some retail spots in NYC. The dollar is on a respirator and the fed is trying it's hardest to pull the plug.
With the devaluation of the dollar, foreign investors are now able to more effectively grab shares of american businesses, and even our infrastructure. Would you ever believe that we would be paying a businessman in China to use his toll road to get from your town into Los Angeles, Seattle, or San Fransisco? Large portions of America could be up for sale if we stumble as hard as we did in 1929, yet the president requests another $200 billion from congress this year to continue his war on decency and humanity, building military bases and infrastructure in foreign countries. What about our infrastructure you lunatic, wannabe cowboy? Our bridges are falling down at home. Our roads are being sold to foreign countries, one slice at a time. You've sold out America.
Where are we?
Where the hell are we as a nation? Why do we passively watch our tv's and listen to our ipods in a massive cultural trance while everything is bought and sold around us by men we've never even heard of? Why are we allowing people that are supposed to be representing us, be silenced by one branch of the government? When will we start viewing ourselves as human beings again, with God-given, unalienable rights instead of consumers- and whatever other labels the mainstream media can effectively tag us with.
Don't be fooled into thinking this is anything less than war declared on our own hearts and minds. Bush has said himself, that his goal is "to win the hearts and minds of the people," because it's so much easier to control the masses with your self-deprecating agendas when they already agree with you.
Michael Brande
2/14/08
