Stalin and Mao were twice the tyrants as Hitler. Yet, to this day, Nazis are still hunted. This prompted a caller to Michael Medved to ask why we never hear of ex commies being hunted for their depredations. Medved, who makes sense once in a while, observed that the Hitler regime lasted only 14 years to the 80 some years of the tyrannical commie regimes. Thus, the commie depredations became protected under a long process of institutionalization, during which time most citizens had a hand in some of the depredations. Makes it hard to hunt such folks. Thus, commie tyrants are spared some of the sensational coverage that the Nazis get, even though they deserve it at least as much. Thus, at least one brand of totalitarianism has escaped Western revulsion. Indeed, the West, by a process of rebranding, seems to be aligning with it.
Take the Chinese model for a corp-media-gov complex. Isn't the U.S. itself falling under a corp-media-gov complex? Why does Obama commission Immelt, except to further siphon power out of America and into China? It seems New Capitalism has come to an accomodation with New Communism. Under this accomodation, the strategy is to suck the life blood of liberty from the middle class. This is done by inviting crises or by hosing the masses with lies about invented threats and then promising to restore security by imposing ever more regulations on the commune at large. Thus, middle class liberty is stolen by moving oligarchic control into the hands of atheistic sociopaths. In postmodern apologetics, "It's for their own good." If you're down for the ride, choose your side.
Take the Chinese model for a corp-media-gov complex. Isn't the U.S. itself falling under a corp-media-gov complex? Why does Obama commission Immelt, except to further siphon power out of America and into China? It seems New Capitalism has come to an accomodation with New Communism. Under this accomodation, the strategy is to suck the life blood of liberty from the middle class. This is done by inviting crises or by hosing the masses with lies about invented threats and then promising to restore security by imposing ever more regulations on the commune at large. Thus, middle class liberty is stolen by moving oligarchic control into the hands of atheistic sociopaths. In postmodern apologetics, "It's for their own good." If you're down for the ride, choose your side.
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The game is no longer about nations. It's about spheres of influence in governance among corporate-media complexes. Borders in the sand are of no import to internationally free trading corporations, looking for the cheapest serfs and the most easily duped markets. The corp-media-gov complex doesn't give a fig about border jumpers, nor about health care for its aphids. If the Internet can be tamed, few will care, because few will know. So long as American corporatists can remain corporatists, they care little whether the American middle class is brought under the hegemony of the Chinese model. For them, the National Anthem is just an opiate for the masses.
America cannot much longer remain America, unless we redefine limits for how business can be done under the corporate model. Theoretically, that is do-able. Practically, it is highly questionable. This is because there is little profit or funding in it, hardly the least comprehension of its value or necessity, and little or no organization or faith for it. Rather, all power, wealth, and public institutions of moral suasion are aligned against it. Perhaps a few faithful will safely preserve some vestiges and survive the coming test.
Idiocy and lies come not only from our elected pols and government. They come also from those who fund and control them. By now, the American middle class should have lost all faith and trust in both crony government and big business. We need to come together, politically, both to impose hard limits on government and to redefine what is acceptable under the corporate form. We have two large holes in the Ship of State. We sink unless we plug both.
It may be worth pausing to reflect: Is our modern, consumption-based corporatism necessarily configured for depleting our purposefulness, to put a devil mass-mind on autopilot? How much moral and common sense are we sacrificing to mass-marketing inducements to addictions to immediate gratifications? Are we now engaged in a losing contest between recentering solitude from in-depth devotion to purposefulness, versus addiction to stretched nerves of constant stimulation under immediate, consumption-based capitalism (and a sinister sidekick, science-based advertising, aka, urge hypnosis)? Is a hive-mind, Corporate-Media-Government Complex ("CMGC") running amuck, worldwide? How many minds are being permanently addicted, melded, and hocked to a soul sucking corporate model?
Recognize limitations in any model that claims to divide concepts so that they have "nothing to do with one another," Many alcoholics fight a complex addiction, that is driven by an interaction between a psychological need for diversion and a chemical craving for alcohol. Such complex addictions are devilishly difficult to treat and are becoming not uncommon in our fever paced society.
Maybe Ike's America just got tired of living. We're reducing our military, shipping our industry overseas, diluting ourselves into multi culti babel, and keeping our own resources undeveloped and pristine. Khrushchev said he would bury us, but it's more like we're building some kind of mausoleum in which to obscure and bury ourselves. We're defaulting to Progressives' historically illiterate presumptions that the mores and interests of the rest of the world are somehow superior to those of America.
We've been nurtured to a context in which the interconnectedness of our choice-making has become perilous to the continuation of our civilized state of being --- unless we become receptive to a vision appropriate to our appreciation of the Field of consciousness with which we must always reconcile. We will strive to an American consensus about those aspects which are harmonious to decent and defensible society, or our civilization will again tip and fall to a divided babel of destruction and noise. Make no mistake: The Progressives among us are historically illiterate Regressives.
"The game is no longer about nations. It's about spheres of influence in governance among corporate-media complexes."
That's absolutely correct. Big LIKE to that :-)
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