What the hell happened to us, America?

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Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:24:35 -0400

What the hell happened to us, America?

 

 

 

 

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What the hell happened to us, America?

 

by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News

 

Sept. 12, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

I've got to tell you an open secret, psst, America ... and listen, you

people on the Right...

 

We are all in deep shit because morally inferior people are in control.

 

Morally inferior people are using the world's people for their selfish

gain. They're using our mothers, brothers, cousins, children, and us.

 

We do not question things, develop our minds, or relate to one another

anymore. How do you think things got so cold? Corrupt people are

manipulating us, are using our stolen trust, stolen power, sincere

beliefs, confusion, ignorance, conformity, insecurity, uncertainty,

our hopes, obedience, work ethics, fears, ideals, deferred dreams,

traumatic experiences, petty prejudices, regrets, anger, experiences,

miseries, deprivations, wants, needs, sicknesses, resentments, love,

attraction, body image, self-esteem or lack thereof, our desires,

creativity, ingenuity, etc.

 

And they are getting away with it.

 

Generally, most people who become leaders of their countries are the

kind of people who do not care about us, or about anything else but

themselves. They might not begin their career so callous, but they get

that way. They are consuming everything of what we are to get what

they want, which is to win the game of ruling. Such men rule the

world, control wealth and power, and they have made the world's people

believe and accept that they are meant to be willing victims of their

rulers, under their domination and control, and basically be slaves to

this stratified empire.

 

They use the most trusting, sacrificing, loyal, desperate, uncurious

people to feed upon. The use us, to make themselves fabulously

wealthy, politically powerful, and immune to accountability, scrutiny,

and danger, immune to the hardships of life, and to be exempt from the

mutual social contract required of each of us living in a shared world

and human community.

 

These master manipulators live their lives as pampered, lionized

children running the show. But in reality they share a cancerous kind

of consciousness that all bullies everywhere share, feeding upon the

good hearted and trusting who are trying to cope with the facts of

natural violence, death, and loss. We share an intrinsically flawed or

broken reality, and our self-appointed 'leaders' manipulate us to make

our lives worse and their lives better, because they can.

 

These overweening ambitious greedy would-be rulers of the world are

the least noble and benign people among us. They're the most clever of

the psychopathic parasites that exist, and they walk the halls of our

government institutions and financial places looking so esteemed.

These pigs have convinced the morally superior people, the truly

compassionate,

the tender-hearted people with conscience and caring

.... that relying on one another is a weakness, that losers are poor,

and that we are on our own in a dog-eat-dog world. They've gotten good

people with a conscience to believe that we ourselves are the moral

inferiors of these sick morally-inferior people -- the " I always must

win " types, the narcissists, liars, con men, flatterers,

authoritarians, insincere believers, the fakes and manipulators of

perception and the engineers of consent ... have made people of true

character, peaceful, respectful, " live and let live " people out to be

monsters.

 

These consummate con men have convinced those of us who have a

conscience and would not do what they do, that they are somehow not

morally dangerous sociopaths, that they can be trusted with all this

power, money, the law-making apparatus of nations, the media, and the

weapons to destroy the world in their greedy uncaring " win at any cost

to everyone else " ways. We have been duped to put it all in their

grubby hands. How did it happen?

 

And because we trusted them without questioning our own motives,

without the cynical mistrust that one aware of a con would have with a

con man selling them a lot of pretty promises, we chose to let the con

men lie and elected them anyway. We fell for it, partly because of the

" American dream, " which is a HUGE coercive lie that leads millions

into slavery willingly (yes, work or starve is COERCION, pay or suffer

is COERCION).

 

Being brought up to think COERCION is normal, we never know what life

without it is. We are taught to trust the faceless institution, more

than we trust each other. Impersonal institutions were safer than

petty rivals, but silently the sociopaths got themselves in control of

the institutions, the institutions that taught us to revere the

" leaders " and heroes of a nation ... while we forgot what a leader and

a hero means to us, personally.

 

The switch to trusting in PR presidential illusion occurred

generationally, and technology helped it along. Newspapers, then

radio, then TV ... and as symbolic leaders became less 'people' and

more of an image, they got more powerful, manipulating the process. PR

is now isolated from the people's reach, and politics has become

super-secretive, unaccountable, and these celebrity like " bubble

people " became both actors and politicians.

 

They're like characters you only see in a sitcom on TV, they seem like

trusted buddies ... but you will never meet these fictional

characters. You'll read about but you will never share coffee with

them. And in this vacuum of social disconnection to each other, we

forgot how to detect the moral inferiors living among us. We trust the

image, the mask of a person, if they look like we are told to think we

think they should look like.

 

Potential candidates for the job or the presidency have to have a nice

haircut, a good tan, they have to be attractive but not too seductive,

with all the symbols of a happy nuclear family, mature-looking, manly

enough that the woman is behind him as his accessories, dressed just

so, and with a dog and two adorable children ... just like most of us,

or just like the image of " most of us " that most of us see.

 

So the candidate appears to be a regular guy, as he panders to us as

if he cares about us personally, as he makes promises that tickle our

ears, so we believe in him ... and we voted for the PR image as if it

was the person. And he was hired, and became " our leader. "

 

We never even question why we do this. It's like impulse shopping. The

shoes looked cute, so we bought them. When we talk about a candidate

we talk more about haircuts and stuttering than about POLICY, his

beliefs, plans, and moral ethics. We separate a person's character

from THE HUMAN BEING that is before us. We disconnect his character

and motives from his words, and his words from his actions. Presidents

break promises while looking sincere, and we don't care, when we are

comfortable enough...

 

Soon as the culture became more impersonal, disconnected, consumer

preoccupied, symbolic, and atomized, the sociopath became someone

else. His mask was seamless ... on TV. Sociopathic people became

violent, romantic, exciting movie heroes, desirable role models,

successful persons, an icon of success and a symbol of worldly

thrills. With proper PR, they exude normalcy, professionalism, class,

a cool persona, a tough guy attitude, becoming a symbol in a suit,

representing the good father/savior. But such phony leaders are really

just abusers of good-hearted people.

 

America for a time ignored the abuses of power, because we wanted the

good father PR image more than the truth. Many of us chose to see a

9/11 hero, not a scared boy made " president " in a classroom sitting on

his ass as 3,000 people were dying ... But soon in the trauma we

became more confused about what having 'judgment' or 'character' is

about, we started substituting other things for real trustworthiness,

like titles: Priest, Ph.D, or Senator, words worn as uniforms, as

proof of earned " authority " and goodness.

 

The business suit, the lab coat, the cop's blue shirt and badge. We

looked at the way these people spoke, dressed, and believed their lack

of cussing, their invoking of Jesus, and how neat thier hair was, and

we learned to use that appearance as a sign of good character. Being

" normal " became the seal of approval, shorthand for a decent-hearted

person. But all this is a sham, a lie we tell orselves when we don't

know a person but have to trust this person anyway.

 

Images are so easy to rely on, in a world that seems too big, too

complex, too busy, with too many strangers, too overworked, too

disconnected in a sea of individuals, all struggling for a piece of

the pie that never seems to come to them. Lost in our individual lives

in our own houses, we have distracted ourselves from our own

suffering, with hobbies, pursuits, working, buying shit we don't need

.... all to fill up the hole inside where a warm community and sharing

of life once was. We've forgotten how to judge a bad character in our

midst because we're so disconnected from each other. We've stopped

seeing others as relations.

 

Work and chasing jobs all over the country separated us from family,

friends, familiarity, so we became individuals, and others around us

became objects to fight, overcome, beat, or use. Very few bonded with

us to become deep companions. We've forgotten to relate, to care, to

touch, to experience and share what is inside each other freely, we

forgot we are vulnerable, we need love, we forgot intimacy and

community solidarity.

 

We wanted to be self-made men like the rulers pretend to be,

successful and aloof and in command of our lives. We aped them so

well, we believed the dream so much, it put us into a trance of work,

shopping, TV, home, most days of the week and on weekends we'd hit a

club with music so loud conversation is impossible, get drunk and get

up to go to work and stand around the coffee pot with hangovers.

 

We got elections full of rhetoric, but rhetoric is only useful to PR

people, and rhetoric only works when people forget what rhetoric is.

rhetoric

n. 1: using language effectively to please or persuade

2: high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation [syn:

grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence]

3: loud and confused and empty talk; " mere rhetoric " [syn: palaver,

hot air, empty words, empty talk]

4: study of the technique and rules for using language effectively

(especially in public speaking)

 

When Rumsfeld or Bush say a whole lot of nothing in a speech that

sounds pleasing and makes you go ??? and forget about it, they are

speaking rhetoric. Also known as bullshit. It is a gift of gab from

the Skull and Bones deity, Eulogia, the Goddess of clever words and

public relations. PR is lies, but easier to swallow to a mind not used

to critical thoughts about 'nice guy' 'leaders' that act like your

daddy. Charisma in the speaker makes nonsense appear to make sense. It

makes perfect sense if we just switch off our critical

thinking, stop doubting, and stay focussed on the charisma and

optimism without grounding, as if Bush as a guy that would be so fun

to have a beer with.

 

Gradually it happened, so slow as to be imperceptible, the more

powerful sociopaths over generations have quietly consolidated thier

power and kept it in the family, and in certain circles, behind closed

doors, in boardrooms and 'private' functions, and later in " think

tanks. " We ignored this insidiousness, and the right especially ate it

up as they helped thier masters spread well-crafted PR propaganda that

seemed so believable. They created a culture that looked so

'grassroots', it made doubting thier sincerity a social faux pas. It

was in lockstep with thier leaders, without even realizing it.

 

That questioning and speculation and alternative thoughts, if ever

voiced in public around these true believers, gave rise to the

humiliating denouncement of CONSPIRACY THEORIST, or COMMUNIST, or some

other derogatory claim for thinking outside the current political

limits, boundaries of thought set before us as " appropriate " or

'credible'.

 

And the bullies among us took advantage of the animal phenomena of

social rank in humans, and perverted it so that they always looked

cool-headed, reasonable, professional, and normal, masters of

plausible deniability and verbal assault, like every sociopath does.

And we had our suspicions and kept our mouth shut, until the bodies

under the crawlspace next door are stinking and the cops drag them out

on the lawn ... And because we believed thier lies thier false image

of WHAT and WHO they were, more than we believed what they did and

said, because we did not want to admit this dissonance and that we

were losing, we did not question thier greed fully, because to do that

would incur disdain from our peers and calls of RADICAL, and LIBRUL!

 

This seductive switching of language occurred because most Americans

never wanted to believe thier leaders were sociopaths, and decided to

trust a false image. They put so much stock in it, so much faith, and

gave it so much of thier POWER, they changed the meaning of words to

suit the neocon agendas. And now it is hard to face reality.

 

Americans have been wounded by charismatic soulless parasites who

warped the system, who coerced us without letting on that that is what

it was, teaching us to learn to be dependant on thier corporate

decisions and social control system, and to accept thier hijacking of

the world's resources and our lives, to work for thier gain, to exist

on a planet that once fed us all for free.

 

Because some people fancied themselves better than " those people "

(blacks, poor, gays, tribal people, freaks, liberals, hippies, etc.)

and had inflated pride with this never clearly defined idea of

patriotism, that morphed into " WITH us or AGAINST us. "

 

Some Americans decided to get comfortable with self-deception, with

inequality, poverty, loyalty to fakes, acting as willing victims,

because they were SO insecure and in denial and it felt GOOD to not

think. It was easy, they felt justified, almost mainstream. We were

willing also because we all, to some degree, all of America went along

with a game of make believe and a destructive con man with irrational

beliefs, call it social Darwinism or laissez faire economics, or

welfare queen myths, because it made a majority of people in this

country feel good in the EGO to feel superior to someone else....

 

America became segregated classist, racist, cluster of acquaintances,

without admitting we were sick, shallow, and ignorant, pretending

racism is gone while it still was being promoted by the leaders and

wealthy of this country and the media, in a hush hush sly way, and

while we pretended life was good (even when it sucked and we ran up

credit debt to make the illusion more realistic). Our sociopathic

" leaders " stole our country from under us, corrupted our laws, bought

our senators, our presidency, the constitution was rewritten, our way

of life was ruined, our lives and our community changed, the

environment poisoned, and our ability to care about others not exactly

like us was dulled. In effect we were transformed ... and became too

much like them.

 

But we accepted the lie without ever seeing the perks of wealth,

status, and power they got at our expense, with thier callous ambition

and coldhearted greed and ability to lie about what they are.

 

Because we morally superior people cannot really become " them " enough

to be as " successful " as them, we can only imitate them to a certain

extent. We have a conscience, and can't kill it totally. Sociopaths do

not have a conscience, so any depraved act and taking advantage of

others' misfortunes for self-gain is fine with them.

 

We apparently need these shocks of death to stop us from trusting

these charismatic soulless madmen, because we cannot recognize bad

character now until WE fear him personally. So New Orleans is a big

death shock, because the whole disaster hit close enough to home it's

inescapable. It highlights our vulnerability to the corrupt powers in

Washington, and nature's capricious destructive force. Now the

willing, trusting, obeying sheep begin to stop pretending that things

are OK when they are NOT. Better late than never.

 

They wake so late, because THEY finally realized they could be dead

next and NOBODY would be there from thier trusted faceless

institutions or neighbors they don't trust.

 

Rightwing America right now is just like a quiet neighborhood ... in

shock, discovering that thier nice quiet normal neighbor next door

Jeffery Dahmer was murdering people. The police drag the bodies onto

the lawn before thier shocked eyes. Murder RIGHT under thier oblivious

trusting unconcerned noses, and THEY could have been dead NEXT and

nobody in the neighbor hood would have SUSPECTED a THING was wrong

with nice normal looking Mr. Dahmer. A man that nobody knew

personally, but all had aquatinted and judged by appearances was a

normal guy!!! Nobody would have HELPED them or SAVED them, because

nobody knew what Dahmer WAS!! All sociopaths do this, Dahmer and Bush

all rely on a well-crafted fakery, a MASK of SANITY to hide thier lack

of morality.

 

Scary to think Abu Ghraib did not stir Americans to question Bush's

character flaws, nor did the Iraq War, the Plame case, or Halliburton,

or Enron.... Only massive gruesome deaths, in thier FACES, up close

and PERSONAL, with no faceless institution to help, and no father

figure symbol to tell them all is fine standing on a pile of rubble

with a blowhorn on TV. They saw they could be vulnerable personally.

It took the entire ruin of New Orleans, and TV cameras recording the

rotting and wreckage and the nightmarish Superdome.

 

Only horrors up close got the " rugged inDUHvidualist " " pull your

bootstraps " true believers on the right hell-bent on suppressing thier

human tenderness to wake up and realize they've been taken. The Iraq

war didn't matter to them, because they aren't " towelheads, " the poor

in America didn't because they aren't " irresponsible crack heads. "

 

A selfish realization of thier own VULNERABILITY is what got some

Republicans to stop mouthing talking points and listen to thier own

conscience, without a political agenda coloring it in. And this time

they saw with a HUMAN conscience, and thier compassion stirred again.

 

In some it shook them hard enough to get some guts to speak up on

behalf of humanity, compassion, honor, justice, and sanity, and

finally say NO I do not want to live in a country dictated by social

Darwinism, tyranny, theocracy, and an abusive father sociopath

president lording over a dysfunctional population playing make

believe. They wanted that lie, until it occurred to them they really

may be next one to be eliminated from the game of life, if society was

based on the rules of Neocons they once admired as pillars of society.

 

Yep, the sociopaths leading this country go terrorizing people of

conscience in every walk of life, for fun and personal gain (1 in 4

people are sociopaths looking to win, con and control others for

pleasure and ego trips). The most clever of sociopaths get in power,

and like thier less-clever counterparts they also wanted to make us to

be dead to our own conscience, and just like THEY are, but as obedient

fawning believers, accepting thier demands without the wealth status

and power and authority. They wanted America to be willing, submitted,

trusting, complicit victims to abuse of power. And it is SCARY to

think how much SUCCESS they have had in doing us over.

 

Just like Columbine got people to realize school bullying scars kids'

lives, Hurricane Katrina and FEMA revealed the dark soul of the

Neocons as thier mask of social respectability falls away, showing the

heartless con underneath the PR. Perhaps it has made some of

Right-wing America realize that sociopaths do NOT belong in the White

House, destroying us and ruling the world.

 

 

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