- How could it happen that the one thing
almost everyone agrees upon as a basic underpinning for this nation, could
ever have been turned against the people of the USA? Well - a lot has happened
since the American public began taking regular doses of "The Shining
City on the Hill" that was practically 'mainlined' into the public's
veins. The message however was only masquerading as all that anyone would
ever need to live the good life, during the Reagan years; back when "Greed
is Good" ruled the day!
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- In this article: http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2006/art7.htm a reader wrote that I had advocated Anarchy.
But Anarchy is a tool of interlocking and overlapping directorates of MONEY&POWER
INC. (the enemy of all who work). It's a weapon of theirs and a basic part
of what the Puppet-Masters do. Anarchy was pre-figured in the aftermath
of both the War on Iraq (murder & chaos internally) and in the
Hurricane Katrina, where the government's hands off approach raised the
number of casualties and intensified the destruction. To insure against
riots after the hurricane, the only thing that was done, besides calling
in Blackwater's mercenaries to patrol the scene; was to scatter the population
across the nation and then just move-on depending on the short-term
memory of all those not affected, to bury this crime along with all their
other efforts at destabilizing the Un-United States.
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- Ordinary people on the other hand that
have families, responsibilities and some form of job, can't really be fans
of Anarchy either - because that brand of street theater offers nothing
by way of real survival or continuance. Anarchy is also unworkable for
that segment of America that was the former "backbone" of this
society and that still cannot believe they have become the target of this
government that wants to crush them. Moreover: in reality Anarchy
has become the hand-puppet of the extreme wings of all the "ists" &
Isms" that currently plague the world - it's what our dollars paid
for when the people did not balk at having the last two presidential elections
stolen from them - right before their very eyes!
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- Critics say that an "Elevated focus"
is what is needed to resolve this serious breakdown of life in America
today. Yet given how many have already been personally 'broken' by
the pace and promises of this government an 'elevated focus' is almost
beyond reach when one hasn't got a job, or much of any kind of future.
This is especially true when those same people tend to listen to the distortions
of the mass media that sold them out in the first place. Depression and
anger are what is being spoon fed to the disillusioned - so now most of
these people just don't want to hear anything anymore!
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- Almost buried in the confusion is a poisoned
tar-baby that is visible as the Weaponization of "The American Dream"
- the practice, not the concept. Back in 1972 or 73 there was a major gathering
of about 300 of the world's most prominent Robber-Barons, in the Caribbean.
The council was held under the rubric of the Trilateral Commission. That
august body of thieves and conspirators had observed that the population
of the planet was beginning to make strides toward a better and more promising world.
The reason for this tiny sprout of promise that concerned them so
- was that in their view: TOO MUCH FREE TIME was now in the hands of working
people everywhere.
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- It seems that the G.I. Bill in WWII had
begun to change their plans for domination: because it was giving too many
people the idea that there actually might be something more in life than
just MONEY&POWER. The arts were beginning to show some promise and
with the free time created by well-paying jobs, people wanted to make things
better, and not just for themselves - (imagine that)! So the Trilateral
commission acted and by 1994, this was part of the "new" situation
in the USA
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2004/art18.htm
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- The fascinating thing about "The
American Dream" as it is practiced today is that its only target seems
to be "more for me - and to hell with anyone else." Gone are
the dreams of a better world; more education that actually led to knowledge
instead of only data accumulation and regurgitation. IN is the acquisition
of everything that glitters, glows or communicates. This 'idea' came directly
from marketing schemes developed by Edward Bernaise in the 1920's. Later
Madison Avenue advanced his work to create the kinds of products that could
liberate people, but by the1980's this idea was being used to control people
for international business, and for those who supported them. MONEY&
POWER INC. took things from there by successfully linking this basic commercial
idea of acquisition, with the suggestion of 'Democracy.' as a way to gain
control over people through their inmost fears and desires. Thanks mostly
to the seeming innocence of television and consumer surveys this began
to work and profits soared! http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12698.htm
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- Gone now are the thoughts of free time,
or free thought about anything that does not have to do with MONEY&POWER
INC. The crescendo of this success was completed when the PR industry and
the media finally began to lead consumers to this Nirvana of their dreams.
Of course this "idea" is no longer limited to those in the USA
as this disease has grown wings and has now infected people everywhere.
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- The weaponized form of 'the dream' like
the concept of Anarchy itself is just the bait that attracts new followers
like flies. Where Anarchy relies on images of romantic-daring, other-people's
blood, and the mystic heights of "celluloid rebellions":
The American Dream is far more subtle. The bait in the "dream"
is based on "Joining-In," signing-up and behaving very professionally
about every facet of life. Credit is a major factor along with timely payments
to whatever corporation is billing them. This can be difficult as companies
are often allowed to change the terms of the signed agreements that have
beggared so many, at their whim. It's very serious, but it comes in shiny
wrappers of the dreams for a care-free life yet the truth beneath
the packaging can be dire and deadly for the continued future of the unwary.
This is just the boiler-plate of unfettered Capitalism run amuck. But for
anyone who is chasing those eternal dreams of grandeur, it is often hard
to see the bear-traps in the road. That's the basic idea; 'do everything
we ask of you and follow what we say exactly and know that those golden
years are just ahead for YOU!'
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- But the task of following the new leaders
and their sponsors is tough. The consumer (no-longer-the-citizen) is expected
to "do what is expected" while self-censoring their every thought
- ALWAYS. No private doubts or personal thoughts are allowed to question
these equations for any reason. Ambition is encouraged to be sure, but
only when the worker's ambition will lead directly to ever-greater profits
for the company. The plight of the dutiful-cog in this machine is as futile
as dream of freedom was for the slaves that built this nation.
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- Still, when one is young the future is
bright, unless you happen to be young during the continuing eclipse of
the sun that has marked the entire five years of Cheney-Bush. Students
go to college, or to war, depending on how deep their pockets are. And
after having spent the time and money and a few years in the "after-
world" of the post-graduate experience, certain inconsistencies appear.
First it's clear that profit does not always flow from choices made, or
from the duties carried out. By then it is also clear that laws are only
made for underlings - the rich have more important things to do because
there is a two tiered system that only watches over "lesser individuals."
It's also clear that whatever course is followed in the system will
be closely scrutinized, recorded, and reported; often to those above who
will not smile upon whatever or whoever has been revealed to them.
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- A big part of the "American Dream"
is compartmentalization. Whenever a problem occurs in the overly-busy-life
of a pod person, the appropriate professional is called and the cog goes
immediately back to their 'Oh So Busy' life! So when there is a perceived-political-problem,
they call a professional and leave the "problem" in the capable
and knowledgeable hands of a political professional - much as one might
call a plumber to fix a broken pipe. It takes awhile for it to dawn on
those who believe they are on a fast-track to success, to figure out that
for decades no one has been protecting them, from any of the horrors that
now makes the news almost every night. When global, national, and local
events begin to daily overwhelm the majority, as is happening now, the
rigid follower (who always believed that he or she was definitely 'aware')
begins to PANIC. (but only on the inside).
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- The problem is that we have allowed the
World to be turned Upside-Down. The vagrants, the bandits and the
true killers from the fringes have taken over the US, from the offices
and boardrooms to the courts and especially to the inner-chambers of government.
That leaves the so-called "secure jobs" of the pod-people and
the rest of us in either permanent limbo, or in something that employers
can hold for ransom, while the worker tries to continue in the game.
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- It would be one thing if the slithering
and sneering leadership would pause occasionally - but events are moving
so fast (against the public good) - that there is no time to even let each
new crime sink in - before the next catastrophe overwhelms us in its vehemence.
One critic thought that any path to a solution should definitely include
"Universal principles." With this nightmare tar-baby in place
where Dreams-envisioned become Dreams-denied that "Universal
principles" have almost entirely disappeared. Whatever
became of those high-minded principles seems to have died with the rise
of the Culture of the Self. If they're still 'out there' Universal Principles
might only be found in the Smithsonian, under glass of course, and viewable
for a fee.
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- For a peek at what we're dealing with
on a higher level just look at how this works: The Free Market ideas contained
in the international trade-agreements NAFTA, GATT, and FTAA are all expanded
versions of this scenario. First the nation, or the citizen, is set-up.
Promises are hinted at while requirements are created, only to find after
signing, that the terms of this agreement are not only impossible to pay
for, but will in the end bankrupt the applicant. In the case of nations,
their resources are taken in lieu of payments in the case of citizens
when they cannot pay, they become consumers without rights and their souls
are forfeit, while their dreams are canceled outright.
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- So in this view "The American Dream"
is not what those millions of marchers may think it is. True it is more
monetarily than they can make back home, but they reach for this bauble
at the risk of losing much of whatever depth their lives had had before.
Hunger and poverty are brutal task-masters, but in the sweat and pain derived,
the mind is often sharpened as thoughts intensify. What is to be gained
in money may have to be paid for with self-esteem. The "American Dream"
is in reality a form of ultimate control that can be more addictive than
any drug, and is at least as delusional!
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- Politics has overridden much of the best
that the humanities had to offer to humankind. But for the world to survive
some combination of public ethics, private morality and personal determination
must rise again or there will not be a world to live in. How do we
get there?
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- Sometimes people must just go with what
the gut has to say - because if you really listen to that voice - it is
seldom wrong (it's just usually not convenient). If the people of this
country ever do begin to plunge into this nightmare with determination,
they might be surprised at just how much each one of us can do - in affecting
real and lasting changes to this disgusting place that we have created
a our world!
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- It is said that "it's not a prison
if you haven't tried the door" But If people were really interested
in knowing the degree of their personal freedoms - they would try
the doors of whatever life they might be leading. And SURPRISE! Most will
find that they really are LOCKED-IN!
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- The most damning thing of all is that
what each of us decides to do as individuals is the only thing that will ever
change this nightmare for the better!
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- kirwan
- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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