"Thinking people can see that most Americans veer between
manic-depression and paranoid-schizophrenia. While they know they are
getting kicked around by the rich, there’s such a strong tradition of
obedience to authority in America that most people just take it in
stride and just get on with their lives."
"This is a population with an
severe “abuse” problem. I compare it to the compulsive behavior among
women and children who’ve lived in abusive relationships. The sickness
passes from one generation to the next without interruption. It is a
condition that has to be treated, which means creating a process where
the person can see that the violence being done to them is violence and
not love. America is a nation badly in need of therapy."
"The chasm between rich and poor has grown wider in America than anyplace
in the industrial world. The rich get richer and the poor own nothing.
The middle class–the class of illusion–is committed to defending the so
called American dream and believing whatever the rich tell them in order
to sustain their own very tenuous existence."
"The US kills and exploits the rest of the planet to serve the narrow
interests of 10% of the population, they just point to their college
educations, their cars, and other trinkets and shrug it off as
unimportant or plug their heads back into the sand. What do they care?
They have their Starbucks and their I-Pods and their flat-screens."
The above was borrowed from Dr. Bede Vincent Curley.
If we should find ourselves beholden to some other imagined authority, this can only mean that we have constructed the conditions of our own servitude. Weak minds require strong leadership.
Logic, reason, independence, and free will are viewed ever-more as liabilities to the corporate masters. Obedience, ignorance and complacency are more desirable traits among the American population.
Technology, entertainment, sports, news, politics and so forth are used as mere distractions to keep the people ignorant and satisfied.
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