This article should be mandatory reading for all US-Americans (and for other westerners too).

  • Grace
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    63 years ago

    A wonderful read. Will post it in my other groups.

    • Muad'DibberMA
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      23 years ago

      Ya, it really gets at the religious conviction of muricans in their narratives and systems. One I notice a lot, is treating the constitution like a religious text: a < 250 year old document written by an expansionist slave-owning aristocracy who explicitly modeled their country on the roman empire.

  • Muad'DibberMA
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    63 years ago

    And herein lies part of the tragedy of America, and the reason the country will eventually have to implode: the enormous disconnect between the propagandised ideology of the people and the brutal reality of the thin layer of elites that run their government and military, their corporations, banks and mass media. There is no other nation whose population has such a large gap between myth and reality, between what the people believe their government has done and what it has actually done. When the people one day put the pieces together, the US will have another revolution; I don’t believe anything can prevent it. It was not for nothing that George Bush Sr. said, “If the people knew what we were doing, they would hang us in the streets”. Perhaps one day soon, they will.