Meanwhile Let Us Admit Our Conditioned Hatred
of Government Is an Insurmountable Barrier
of Government Is an Insurmountable Barrier
to Saving Ourselves from Extinction
QUITE
SIMPLY, NO people who have been taught by their extended individual and
collective experience to regard government and bureaucracy and
bureaucrats and politicians with near-universal hatred, contempt and
infinite (yet utterly rational) distrust -- precisely as we the people
have been taught by the bipartisan malevolence of of Neoliberalism --
can ever achieve anything even remotely resembling the
socialism essential to rescue our species from extinction and save our
Mother Earth from reduction to a bug planet.
Why?
Because in the minds of the vast moronic majority, socialism has come
to mean naught but "Big Government" -- which is precisely what we in the
so-called "United States" are taught to fear and despise even more than
the (already-well-underway) Final Extinction.
And
given the anti-intellectual ignorance maliciously inflicted on us by
all financially accessible schools (whether public or private) and
sustained by the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine -- which perhaps
we should call the MaiMePropMach (pronounced "Maim Me Prop Mash") --
there is absolutely no way this intentionally suicidal preconditioning
can ever be overcome. Indeed our masters are already hurling us under the proverbial bus.
Yes, we must keep fighting. But we must evolve strategy and tactics based on recognition we are far more powerless than even the abandoned, heroic-but-doomed anti-Nazi defenders of Fortress Brest
-- for the monstrous and unspeakably horrific truth is there is no
political leader, organization, nation or people left on this wounded
and dying planet with sufficient power, influence and will to rescue us
from Neoliberal Capitalism and its coterie of fascist fanatics. Nor can
we continue hiding beneath our deluded fantasy of someday magically
receiving justice for the innumerable atrocities already inflicted on us
by our morally imbecilic, sadistically gleeful overlords in what is
already the most murderously unjust global tyranny in our species'
entire approximately 250,000-year history. There is no true justice --
none whatsoever -- under Neoliberal Capitalism, nor will there ever be.
*****
EMPHATICALLY RECOMMENDED READING: an emotionally downsized form of the news reporting that characterized the old Dispatches
(because even I who lived most of my adult life in intimate embrace
with the day's news can no longer endure being beaten over the head
daily with the fact we're doomed); also, note all save one of these
heads are self-explanatory; hence, with that exception, the lack of
routine descriptive comment:
Badly misleading head should read, "March for Our Lives Demands Total Forcible Disarmament" -- for which see the original MFOL document, here. See also my comment on the initial report's comment thread
