We Are Ruled by Fear

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Today a majority of the people in the US supports strikes in Iraq and Syria. After weeks
of propaganda from all sides of the spectrum the bamboozled and frightened populace
capitulated in its resolve to the demands of the deep state.

Perhaps if the corporate media showed Saudi Arabia's hundreds of public executions by
beheading and sometimes by stoning, the people in the US would support the bombing of
that country as well. But of course we don't air our friend's dirty laundry.

The tribalism and groupthink of our supposed
free press is mind boggling and it will be an
object of study for future scholars, if there are to
be any given the current corporate attack on
education and the destruction of the ecosystem.

Such articles, and these polls are thus simply
self-congratulatory PR as if to say: look how
well we have done to con the people in the US
into supporting yet another murderous and
destabilizing military action. The contempt for
democracy in the elite is almost palpable. The
fact is that, hand in hand with the corporate
media, the ruling oligarchs keep manipulating
our emotional responses by manufacturing one
crisis after another.

Yet, the disconnect in popular consciousness is
also visible in the poll. Obama's ratings are
nearing his all-time low. Perhaps it's a message from the true consciousness of the people
saying to Obama: "You have frightened us into doing something hateful yet again and we
hate you for bringing out the worse in us."

Perhaps the reason why we keep telling ourselves that this is the "home of the brave" and
the "land of the free" is because we are not willing to accept the reality: that we are a
fearful and frightened nation ruled by fear and that we are willingly renouncing our
freedom for the false promise of protection from the very people who have taken us to the
brink of extinction.

This is what happens to a nation that is raised from cradle to grave to pledge allegiance,
follow orders and, of course, shop.