Immediacy and Distance
by jake Friday, Mar 24 2017, 11:01am
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The thunder we hear from a distance is actually shelling, bombs and “hellfire” missiles made in the USA and delivered to civilians in foreign lands by the USA, which nation above all must support its weapons industry, though Russia and China have for a fraction of the cost developed superior weapons..
The compliant American media keeps these devastating wars at a distance far removed psychologically from the lounge rooms of insular, obese, mindless Americans -- media moguls have learned that presenting the truth of the horror of war on nightly news activates the humanity of audiences, which humanity then seeks by nature to stop the needless carnage in order for a tiny, profoundly sick minority to rake in $trillions in blood money.
Divorced from reality the American population today is unable to think and feel for others, which insular attitude assists the evil forces that profit from war and destruction -- they are never held responsible or even to account for their heinous crimes. Of course they are never pursued by the media.
Worse still, images of children blown to bits for the profits of Wall St. bankers and large defense corporations fail to rouse the moral outrage of the American masses; it is little wonder that U.S. presidents today pursue senseless violence to prove they have the right stuff to protect a profoundly ignorant and cowardly population from the phony threats the media infuses into the sponges Americans imagine are their minds.
The few liberated minds that maintain a close proximity to the REAL horror of war react appropriately as human beings, not like the slobs that passively consume the propaganda and lies of the media, everything is designed to maintain a grand illusion, an American dreamworld.
But we are all forced to wake from our slumber and confront reality whether we like it or not. It is that immediacy/reality that will destroy the American people not imaginary threats to the nation -- the real enemy is within, the real enemy is us!