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America's Tomorrow

 

 

 

 

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December 29, 2005

 

America's Tomorrow

by Manuel Valenzuela

 

http://www.opednews.com

 

Burden on Those Yet to Come

 

 

Throughout human history certain patterns continue repeating

themselves over and over again, becoming, if careful attention is paid

to study them, a direct harbinger to what tomorrow's cultures and

societies will be like. The inevitability of what a future

generation's destiny will become is oftentimes discernable from the

accumulated sins of the fathers that came before as well as those of

the grandfathers that no longer exist, over years accruing and

building upon each other until the future becomes the unstoppable

rollercoaster birthed from the damage that was done in the past.

 

Tomorrow's fate follows the path of the slow to evolve human condition

and of our raw animalistic emotions and psychologies that have for

millennia remained unchanged, following the same direction and trends,

the same inability to change, though multiplied by advanced

technologies, societal complexity, environmental stresses and

increases in populations. It can be read buried inside the forgotten

writings of historians and in the investigations of anthropologists,

for the patterns endemic to our existence are bountiful, traversing

oceans and continents, sparing no corner of human habitation,

prevalent to all peoples and all times.

 

What we will become can be analyzed by studying the research of

evolutionary psychologists and that of modern day zoologists. The

patterns of our descendants can be deciphered examining the perpetual

hierarchy of castes and the habitual social engineering of entire

groups demonizing humankind for tens of thousands of years. It can be

foretold by the never ending rule of peasants by the Establishment,

the exploitation of the masses by the elite and by the willing,

seemingly masochistic subservience of the many to the will of the few,

as if authoritarian systems of governance are inbred into the human

condition, making us mammals thriving on the suffering and heartache

ingrained with being governed by tyrants and despots.

 

Human history, both biological and of civilization, – with its massive

amounts of evidence left behind, accumulated and now known – does not

lie, telling us the human condition has been a constant throughout

time, following the psychologies, behaviors, emotions, culture, needs,

wants and instincts that have walked with us since the genesis of

humankind. Through the study of the past and of ourselves, therefore,

our future can be deciphered and better understood. For what is the

future but days yet to come built atop the accumulated ruins of the

past, its lessons and errors and triumphs forgotten? What is the

future but the heavy burden left behind by past generations whose

complicity or failure to act passes on to those young or not yet born?

What is the future but the accumulated knowledge of past civilizations

imprisoned and silenced by our inability to know who and what we truly

are, our denial and ego becoming the demons condemning us to perpetual

years of unnecessary turmoil?

 

The future has yet to arrive, of course, its destiny having not yet

been sealed in stone, but what is certain is that there exists a

perpetual belief among humankind, in this modern age of greed,

selfishness and comfort, that the problems or errors or sins of the

present can be ignored and inherited to those yet to take the reigns

of society. Every generation, it seems, places upon the next the heavy

weight of a society's ills, those hidden secrets we all know about but

would rather not confront, in the misplaced assumption that the future

will invariably be better equipped to confront the maladies of the

past visiting the innocence of the future.

 

In this way, the present can relinquish the guilt of what they have

endowed to the future, enabling selfish minds to return to their

comfortable existence, continuing on the errors of their ways, thereby

condemning tomorrow for the short-term satisfaction of today. Built

upon the foundations of those now ash and dust, themselves leaving

behind heaps of unresolved troubles, and continuing with those now

made producers, consumers, serfs and sheeple, the sins, errors,

gluttonous stupor and indifference of yesterday and today gather

momentum, building a colossal wall, brick of indifference built atop

brick of indifference, making blind the present, hindering views of

the horizon, even as their behavior degenerates further and even as

their actions further indebt America's tomorrow.

 

Ultimately, the weight of burdens and ills left behind by the past and

present becomes an unbearable responsibility for those yet innocent

and unborn who are placed in the indelible position of having to

somehow make right what has for years been made wrong. The

accumulation of past errors, indifference and acquiescence becomes so

heavy, containing so much volume and momentum, that inevitably the dam

containing and hiding the indifferences of times past breaks, flooding

tomorrow with an unfixed and untreatable destiny. As such, one day in

the not too distant future the remnants of times past will arrive to

overtake our achievements and triumphs and virtues, swallowing our

children with the inherited affliction not of their own making. The

vicious cycle will continue, inevitably leading humankind to the

precipice of its own destruction.

 

 

Facilitator of America's Tomorrow

 

 

If America's today is any indication of how America's tomorrow will

develop, the past and present must be scrutinized, and understood, for

in exploring the sins and errors and tribulations and events of days

preceding our own time we can peer directly into, as far as we can go,

into America's tomorrow, trying to understand the course our nation is

headed towards. The patterns of history are omnipotent, never

invisible or clandestine, waiting eagerly on the periphery for us to

wake up and hear the trumpets signaling and warning us to the troubles

waiting America's tomorrow.

 

America's tomorrow will arrive like a thunderbolt created during an

ominous storm of fear and psychological fragility, striking without

warning, its concussion reverberating throughout the land. An attack

by the enemy will be declared, its images aired repetitiously by the

corporatist media, unleashing wave after wave of human emotion and

tragedy for all of us to absorb. The attack will be horrific, a new

Pearl Harbor reincarnated, devastating lives and infrastructure, its

severity magnified a million-fold by the instruments of propaganda,

the tools of power releasing a hypnotizing cocktail of fear, hatred

and xenophobia amongst the citizenry.

 

Tens of millions of people will instantly become, once again, the

marching army of drones and automatons for those in power, engendering

legions of " good Americans, " their minds under the spell of human

wickedness, ready to sacrifice their blood, children, treasure and

freedom in the name of security, acting on animal instinct, looking at

government for protection, willingly enslaving themselves to the

dictates of criminals and murderers. Calls for vengeance abroad and

greater security in the fatherland will emanate from our monitors,

becoming the calls to prayer listened to by the faithful.

 

Under the pretext of securing the homeland from the terrorists wanting

to destroy us for our cherished freedoms and democracy, the police

state will be ushered in during the quiet hours of citizen fear and

shock, blindly approved by the people themselves, preferring the modes

of totalitarianism to being woken from their gluttony-filled,

comfort-laden, fiction-living bubble. In the darkness of America's

chaotic nights the spot lights of draconian measures will be

introduced, and the America of yesteryear's dreams will abruptly

vanish into the reality of America's tomorrow.

 

It will all be a smoking mirror, of course, stirring the masses

through the chimera of terrorism, placing in our own hands the

guillotine used to self-decapitate our rights and freedoms,

sacrificing liberty for so-called security, the futures of our

children for so-called protection. Used to justify total corporatist

domination over our lives, and our society, an attack upon an American

city will be but the latest stage in our acrimonious and gradual

descent into fascism. For the road we have decided to take, so

tempting in its comfort and lavishness, yet so corrosive in its birth

of ignorance and docility, has inevitably led to the rise of the

corporate world, a Leviathan managed by the Establishment, over the

years having grown all-powerful, its fangs deeply entrenched in the

mechanisms used to create, alter and dominate society and culture.

 

Our eyes and ears will be unable to understand or see the

ramifications of a society allowed to enter the black hole of today's

mutated capitalism. Years in the making, capitalism's lifespan has

reached the point of regression and perversion, where its apex, that

greatest bell curve of exploitation, inequality and addiction to

power, coincides with the compromising nature upon the human

condition, creating that period of decline where its advantages are

severely outweighed by its demons. After decades becoming indifferent

and unattached to the gradual mutation of capitalism from beacon of

hope to unregulated manipulator of human nature, allowing it to reach

its most corrosive stage in its cycle, today we find that we are

reaping what we have sowed.

 

The methodical rise of the corporate Leviathan, controlled by the

vices of greed and addiction to power, its wealth and power unmatched

and unchallenged, concerned only for revenue and sales, stock price

and dividend yield, putting profit over people, seeing 300 million

Americans only as producers and consumers, not human beings, and

thinking of democracy more as a hindrance rather than a blessing, has

invariably resulted in the total dominance of governance by an

Establishment intent on expanding its control and power over American

society.

 

The last few decades have seen the accumulated wealth of the few at

the top grow exponentially, reaching astronomical proportions. At the

root of this manifestation has been the exploitation of the middle and

working classes along with the pillage of their wages, creating an

unbalanced redistribution of resources in favor of the rich. These

castes have, over the years, been made to subsist on the crumbs, bones

and scraps thrown them by the ruling elite, forced to survive by

purchasing the same products they make or sell at work, using up their

slave wages for food and survival, forced to pay tribute to their

rulers through high taxes.

 

Behind today's degenerative and unfettered capitalism – an economic

system simply embarking on the next step in its lifecycle – stands the

inability of man, no matter what position he stands in, to sever

highly animalistic emotions, passions, wants and needs away from the

mechanisms of modern economic forms of governance. The rewards spawned

by capitalism to the few at the top, as satisfying as any euphoria,

yet as addicting as the most compulsive drug, compromise and indeed

multiply the primitive, mammalian urges existing inside us, granting

sustenance to the demons of human nature and making of man a most

dangerous entity.

 

Inside the minds of the luckiest and wealthiest among us, those we

would call the elite, the Establishment, the capitalists and the rich,

these demons grow unabatedly with the continued accumulation of

capital, creating a circle of degeneration, making addicts to power,

wealth and control the same people already possessing them, those with

the ability and means to keep pursuing and expanding their wealth at

the expense of the easily exploitable masses. For absolute power

corrupts absolutely and the human condition has yet to evolve the

mechanisms to control itself both in the presence of gluttony or once

trapped inside the addictions created by the spoils of capitalism.

 

In a vicious cycle of capitalistic greed, those having much devote

their lives to amassing more, never satisfied with the treasure they

already possess, like a wolf gorging on the spoils of the kill,

becoming blind to the addiction their lust to the Almighty dollar has

created. In their quest for wealth and power, therefore, they will

stop at nothing in order to achieve their goals, exploiting and

subjugating the masses, manipulating and enslaving us, commandeering

the instruments by which to control society, decimating the

environment, steering us directly towards the gates of corporatism.

 

The few at the top, mostly products of inheritance, nepotism and born

wealth, over the years inbred and diluted, lost of ability and talent,

living off the laurels of ancestors, forever spoon-fed and pampered,

far removed from their talented patriarchs and the realm of reality,

long since weaned from the ways or lives of the rest of us and

insulated by the bubble that wealth inflates, have never experienced

the struggle of the masses, nor the reality of life to billions.

Instead, isolated and protected do they live, their vast empires

designed to enrich them through the slave labor that social

engineering manufactures. Paying slave wages, exploiting the lives,

energy, blood, sweat and tears of billions, their revenues and profits

skyrocket, their lives becoming ever more luxurious, gluttony

permeating every moment of their existence. The addiction to what they

have cannot be controlled, or extinguished, and so, the exploitation

of their workers continues, enabling the ever-widening gap between the

rich and the rest of us.

 

Yet even their wealth and power cannot halt the possession over the

human mind that the addiction to greed, love of the Almighty Dollar

and the ingrained demons of human nature that are unleashed by

capitalism create. Because weather rich or poor, from suburban haven

or urban reservation, the fact remains that our brains remain the

same, our behaviors perhaps more refined in the former, less educated

in the latter, yet still human, all too human, both primate and

mammalian, subject to the same forces of evolution, the same animal

behaviors, human psychologies and vulnerabilities of consciousness and

thus susceptible to the same evils that capitalism helps spawn.

 

The ruling elite have long since lost any attachment to the masses, or

any empathy to the plight of the less fortunate. They live cocooned in

their aristocracy, unable to comprehend the life of normalcy,

possessing only the drive to further the interests of their own kind.

They have become slave drivers, degenerate capitalists, thriving at

the expense of others, depending on lower caste systems for their

workers, pushing forward the buttons of social engineering to create

the next generation of their slaves, slashing education, making more

automatons, exacerbating poverty, cutting social services,

implementing insurmountable barriers to entry and multiple incentives

for failure. They have achieved their successes through the

corporation, over the years having become their lifeblood, allowing

them greater control over America.

 

The corporation has become the demon of the modern age, becoming, to

21st century humanity, what totalitarian regimes were to the 20th, a

threat allowed to grow and prosper, slowly gaining power and

influence, becoming wealthier than entire nations, allowed to control

and manipulate the population, swallowing whole the branches of

government, becoming overlord of Earth, master of the masses. It is

the corporation, allowed to develop through debauched capitalism and

the power of the Establishment, through our indifference and failure

to act, which has accelerated the dastardly stage of degenerate

capitalism we are immersed in today. It is the corporation, and the

people that control it, that has become the greatest threat to the

continued survival of humankind.

 

Yet the Leviathan is allowed to continue expanding its wealth, power

and control. Out of the top 100 economies in the world, 51 are

corporations, their GDP surpassing that of many underdeveloped

nations. It is destroying entire societies and cultures, usurping

governments into its den of servitude, collapsing the environment and

using as its exploitable producers and consumers 6.3 billion human

beings. The Leviathan now controls every mechanism of globalization,

giving rise to the era of the corporation and the death of the nation

state, resurrecting the systems of feudalism and serfdom, carving up

the lands of the planet and furthering the utter decay of billions of

human lives through the reality of perpetual indentured servitude. The

influence they possess is, therefore, immense, able to dictate the

direction of the world, and the lives of over six billion humans,

through control of the government's of the world.

 

The power of the corporation is such that American government, that

bastion of `We the People,' has been hijacked, the army of corporatism

now infested deep within all levels of governance, conditioned to

further the interests of the corporate world. Through the allure of

wealth, money and the always addicting Almighty Dollar, which the

human brain cannot yet defeat, the Establishment can purchase the

services and favors of government employees as well as injecting its

own vermin into the halls of power. The revolving door of cronyism,

where government officials are hired by corporations and corporate

executives get appointed to the highest levels of government, as well

as through the legal form of bribery called lobbying of government

officials, have resulted in the complete control of America by the

corporate world. The military-energy-industrial complex has

infiltrated the Oval Office, West Wing and the Congress, spreading its

tentacles to all Departments and offices of substance. American

government has, for all intents and purposes, become a government of

the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations, a

prostitute inseminated by her pimp to give birth to and nurture the

mechanisms of complete corporatist control of American civilization.

 

Every day we see further signs that a government designed to represent

the interests of the People has long since stopped doing just that.

Yet the citizenry continues to yield more and more power to the

corporate world, its indifference and passivity helping seal America's

tomorrow. As the years progress, this reality continues, with

government having become a charade, democracy but an instrument of

fantasy, our elected representatives having become the whores of

corporations, the twice unelected President a corporate puppet, a

buffoon whose last name was needed to secure entrance of corporatists

to the most powerful position in the world. The debauchery has

resulted in laws and regulations and appropriations and rules and tax

breaks and incessant welfare furthering the power of the corporation,

not those of the people, our interests steamrolled by money, power and

greed.

 

Capitalism has created a system whereby the Almighty Dollar has become

the new religion of man, with the demons of greed and exploitation

working hand in hand to emasculate the human mind, the pursuit of

wealth and the addiction to power condemning billions around the world

who have no choice but to live the life of slave to the capitalists.

Never before in the history of man has our brain, and our psychology,

been confronted with the gluttony or the lavishness or the temptations

or the incredible wealth now available to a small minority of humans.

It has yet to build defense mechanisms to the evils that capitalism

spawns inside the mind; society, and capitalism, has proceeded much

faster than our ability to evolve our psychologies. The pursuit of

wealth, the addiction to power and the ease with which the elite can

build personal empires has become a new phenomenon in our species,

relatively speaking. For millennia we were nothing but primitive

hunters and gatherers, living off of game and plants, surviving day to

day, week to week, considered lucky if we ate once a day, our numbers

sparse, the planet virgin.

 

Never had we seen the gluttony or unsustainable exploitations of

today, the overabundance of material goods, the excessiveness of

foods, the great accumulation of wealth and the evisceration of the

planet to achieve it. The human species has never seen the obesity we

see today or the large cardboard cookie cutter homes of today's

suburbs or the stresses of modern living or such technologies as

television. Humans had never lived the life of luxury, pursuing

material possessions much more than humanity, becoming the greed

mongers we are today. The elite had never had the corporation as an

option, its tentacles building human wickedness around the globe.

 

We have evolved technology, but technology has not evolved us. Our

society has grown beyond the reach of our slow evolving brains,

witnessed by our inability to manage and control the over

excessiveness prevalent in the America of today. Our ingrained

behaviors and instincts cannot keep up with the rapid pace of society

and the alluring temptations of the Almighty Dollar, for evolution

works in long epochs, not in decades or years or days.

 

Our psychology remains susceptible to the demons of capitalism,

transforming us not into animals, but into animals now divided by

wealth, power and social engineering, with some possessing immense

power, control and treasure while others own not one possession. We

remain the mammalian primate we have always been, yet capitalism has

allowed entrance to the evils inherent in human nature, exploiting and

manipulating the easily created pathology of greed, the addiction to

power, the urge to exploit, the loss of empathy and the drive toward

selfishness, creating behaviors and actions we have yet to fully

comprehend. Our fragile, as yet unevolved psychology relative to the

mechanisms of the modern world, with its many liabilities,

constraints, errors and needs for improvement, has proved that we sped

like a runaway freight train directly into forms of economic

governance our minds were perhaps not ready to dominate.

 

We have become, perhaps, a society where the blind lead the blind,

into a place nobody knows, for no one has ever entered the parameters

of where we presently find ourselves. The temptations, addictions,

euphoria, comforts and materialism spawned by capitalism have blinded

us to what we have become, to the frailty of our psychologies, to the

demons we are releasing. Instead of humankind dominating and

controlling capitalism we have allowed capitalism to dominate and

control us, much to the detriment of billions.

 

Today we see the effects of capitalism run amok, beyond the control of

humankind, becoming, through its sojourn through its various stages, a

runaway freight train whose only stop will be the crash that sends

concussions reverberating throughout America's tomorrow. With few

possessing much, many owning little, the great gap between the haves

and the have nots nonetheless continues to increase, creating friction

and animosity. Left to its own devices, free to evolve as it has since

its inception, capitalism, in its modern incarnation, is inevitably

leading to increased levels of corporatism, for in authoritarianism,

and in control of governance, the elite see the next step in their

pursuit of power, wealth and control. In corporatism they see control

of a population that will in the next few years increasingly become

more and more bitter with the continued decimation of their way of life.

 

Corporatist addictions to the evils of capitalism, to which their

minds are impotent to try and dominate, dictate that the fusion of

their corporations with government is the next logical step in the

complete control over producers and consumers, 300 million strong.

With the increased gap between rich and the rest, with poverty on the

rise, with slave labor and slave wages growing, with tens of millions

struggling paycheck to paycheck, needing two jobs to sustain

themselves, with healthcare lacking for over 40 million people, with

laws and regulations no longer enacted to help citizens, with

inequality and injustice on the rise, with wealth vastly

disproportional, the nation's resources owned almost exclusively by

the elite, and with millions waking to the realization of what is

being done to America and its citizens by corporatist interests, the

only way to prevent a repeat of the French Revolution will be complete

and utter control of the population.

 

The exploitation by the corporatists of both the people and the nation

will continue, for the most deranged step in capitalism's cycle is

upon us. At some point in time, whether in a month or five years, the

masses will wake to what is being done to them. Corporatists, already

in control of government, dominating society, our culture, thoughts

and lives, will try to preempt this inevitability with the

introduction of a perpetual police state using as pretext the war on

terror and further attacks upon one of our cities.

 

For corporatism, more commonly termed fascism, has arrived, just in

time to hail the arrival of America's tomorrow.

 

 

The Arrival of Tomorrow

 

 

Already in control of government, possessing the technologies of

private enterprise and the resources of governance, holding all the

mechanisms by which to brainwash and manipulate the populace, their

wallets thick with the Almighty Dollar, the tentacles of power and

control omnipotent and omnipresent, corporatists have all the

ingredients deeply entrenched to enact the next step in America's history.

 

It is they, the power hungry and corrupted, those addicted to greed

and wealth that cannot stand democracy and must, therefore, try to

destroy it. For real democracy, and not the illusion meant to convey

in the masses a sense of participation, is a threat to those seeking

to rule by authority and through absolute control of the nation. To

them the will of the citizenry is an obstacle; a government of, by and

for the people is a hindrance, because in real democracy the

population chooses, decides and controls the path a country will take.

In a real democracy the rights of minorities are protected, the

freedom of everyone is guaranteed.

 

Democracy is, therefore, incompatible with authoritarianism, with a

system ruled by the few, not the many. Democracy becomes an obstacle

to those at the top, because they are few, the masses many, and, in

deciding the fate of a nation the elite can never outvote the masses.

Given that the interests of the elite are incompatible with those of

the people, and that the people will, without manipulation, vote for

those espousing their own interests, the elite must use all tools at

their disposal to manipulate the vote or the mind of the voters. In

order to steer the nation in the direction of their interests, then,

the wealthy few must control government and society, using all weapons

at their disposal to control the thoughts and opinions of the

population. Hence, the importance of the elite to control all aspects

of the corporate media is understood, for in the television the

thoughts and decisions of the American people are born.

 

To the corporatists and the elite, the will of the people becomes

meaningless, their interests emaciated by the instruments of

corporatism. Instead, the illusion is maintained in the minds of the

people that their interests are being protected and defended, yet to

the careful eye, the interests being pursued are only those of the

elite. Slowly but surely, the ambitions of power become a parasite

feeding off the interests of the weak, hemorrhaging centuries old

rights birthed through revolution. A nation of liberties, freedoms and

rights interferes with the wants and visions of those seeking to

become overlords of the most powerful and wealthiest nation the world

has ever seen. It is, therefore, imperative that the Bill of Rights be

torn to shreds, that the Constitution be ripped apart. It is only a

" god damn piece of paper, " after all, a document meant for the masses,

a barrier to complete control by the elite. To the corporatists now in

power, cherished American documents, wonderments in the evolution of

human society and thought, are nothing but the toilet paper used to

clean themselves of the refuse they call the masses.

 

A nation of liberty, freedoms and rights is a nation of people able to

become threats to governance, their lives protected by law and by the

will of the people. Freedom and rights gives birth to a society free

to question the actions of government, to seek accountability, a

citizenry that owns a government created to serve the interests of the

people. A nation of liberties possesses millions of people unwilling

to become the sheeple of the powerful, always searching for the truth,

seeking it through protest, dissent, debate and intelligence.

 

A nation free is a nation educated and intelligent, wise to the

chicanery of the elite and criminality of its leaders, a people

emancipated through the powers of knowledge. An educated people are a

liberated people, given the tools to question authority, myth, fables

and the auras of false leadership. Indeed, a citizenry that thinks for

itself is the greatest threat to corporatists and the elite because

free minds question, analyze and are able to see beyond the haze of

aerolized bull manure, seeing through the lies and crimes and

propaganda, the thoughts of controlled television not given entrance

to a mind free to think and reason.

 

A people free is a threat to the Establishment, for it places barriers

to government and corporate chicanery, acting as a firewall to the

actions of thieves and murderers, helping, in some way, to try to make

right what has been made wrong. Knowing the vital protections endowed

to them by the Constitution, the population has the confidence to rise

up and be heard, speaking truth to power, marching for justice and

liberty.

 

In this document, a living, breathing, always evolving masterpiece of

human understanding, meant to adapt to the present, not cement itself

to archaic notions of the past, exists the impediment to corporatism

desired by the elite. It is the Constitution that has halted their

rise to total prominence, for in their ideology, humanity has always

and must always be governed by authority, by a Machiavelli type despot

thinking for those that cannot, for only then can civilization thrive

and only then can the total domination of the corporatists become

reality. In their warped mind, then, America must come under the grip

of corporatism, for today, in this stage of civilization's evolution,

the corporate Leviathan is overlord of the planet and those that

control it are, therefore, our masters.

 

Using as pretext an attack on one of our cities by terrorists,

America's new stated enemy, corporatists now entrenched in power will

declare martial law, pronouncing that the security of the nation and

the protection of our way of life are at stake. Through the

exploitation of patriotism, xenophobia and the ignorance of large

segments of the American public, the corporatists will introduce new

laws designed to further control our lives and eviscerate our rights.

The tools of propaganda will bombard us with psychological warfare,

molding us to threats existing only in our fears and in our altered

state of mind, making of us the soldiers embedded deep inside the

trenches of American society, doing the dirty work for the corporatist

government.

 

Exploiting the blindness and silent acquiescence of the masses that

fear, anger and hatred engenders, corporatists in government will give

rise to the police state, first by deploying the military throughout

key cities and regions, creating the environment necessary to begin

the conditioning process of the population. Under the rubric of

securing the homeland, the military will be placed at the helm of a

new security apparatus that will maintain an ever vigilant eye on the

population. The citizenry will be told to be vigilant and to report

suspicious activity. It will be told to become the eyes and ears of

the corporatists, transforming itself into agents of tyranny. In time

the populace will become paranoid sheeple robbed of freedom, shadows

of their former selves, created by the ceaseless suspicions bred by

years of Americans spying on Americans.

 

The Bill of Rights will be truncated and the Constitution, which is

already seen as a piece of toilet paper to the corporatists, will be

altered or amended to suit those holding the reigns of absolute power.

The government will be further degraded into serving the interests of

the corporations, its vast resources, with its tentacles of

governance, used to expand the reach and wealth of corporatists. Gone

will be our rights to free speech and of assembly and of the press,

replaced instead with draconian laws designed to quash dissident

voices pronouncing the sounds of wisdom.

 

A police presence throughout large cities will permeate, designed to

intimidate and control. Everywhere one goes will be seen the tools of

subservience and obedience, from army fatigues to machine guns to

surveillance cameras located in every street corner to police patrols

to curfews to heavily armed men stationed at all points of public

interest. Warrants will cease to exist, as homes will be invaded

without the authority of the law. Courts will become tribunals judging

those guilty of breaking the laws of draconian intent.

 

Dissent will be made quiet, and all forms of protest and debate will

not be tolerated for in the America of tomorrow only the voices and

visions of the rulers will be allowed to stand. The idea of due

process, along with habeas corpus, will become an abstract concept

reserved for future historians, for those designated enemies of the

state will simply be made to disappear without reason into the

national system of gulags, its numbers swelling into the tens of

millions, the fates of its prisoners decided by the level of truth

they once tried to tell.

 

Subservience to the state will become a principle to be embedded into

the minds of all, particularly the young, whose education will further

be implemented to dumb them down, brainwashing them, making them, over

years of conditioning, soldiers and automatons loyal to corporatists

and the powers of the state. Free thought will become a thing of the

past, as books of knowledge will be banned or burned, the opinions of

reason made extinct. Television and music will be controlled much more

so than today, becoming the loudspeakers of propaganda and the

education of enslavement. The pages of past history will be erased or

altered; those of the present will be manipulated as reality becomes

what the corporatists decide it to be. News, opinion and current

events at odds with the goals of power will disappear from society,

for the citizenry will only be allowed to hear the propaganda and see

only what is beneficial to the state.

 

Arrests without cause or suspicion will be legalized, wiretaps and

eavesdropping will be said to benefit the quest for the homeland's

security. The wonders of the Internet, already a grave and gathering

threat to the Establishment, will be destroyed; censorship of websites

and their content will become policy and throughout the country, the

free opinions of the population will become less than a whisper of a

dying society, for in the last breaths of freedom the last

palpitations of America's heart will be heard. Fear and intimidation

will permeate throughout the nation, thereby controlling the

population, for in the threatening posture of a police state the

people are forced into shells of their former selves.

 

A culture of surveillance will be endemic as the instruments of the

security state are used to spy on its own citizens, especially those

deemed threats and dissidents. Those fighting for the freedoms and

rights now lost will be picked up in the middle of the night, lost

like a morning fog, joining a growing group of the disappeared, likely

tortured, imprisoned or dropped from a plane at 10,000 feet. Mass

graves will be hidden from reality, unmarked and untended, forgotten

like the cadavers contained in their bowels. Dissent and protest and

debate will be outlawed, and all around, a society made to conform and

acquiesce to totalitarianism will be born, its children never

experiencing the freedom and the rights once afforded their parents.

 

In America's tomorrow, neighbors will be made to spy on neighbors,

strangers will inform on strangers, children will be told to report

the suspicious activities of parents and all around the nation

paranoia will hover over towns and cities and the homes of the

population, trust having become one more victim of corporatism, the

loyalty amongst friends and relatives compromised with the arrival of

self-preservation. False accusations will be made against thousands

whose only crime will be thinking for themselves, not being liked by

an informer, or being at the wrong place at the wrong time, and guilty

they will stand in a court not of law, but of guilt, where justice is

not blind, though it will be unknown and unwanted.

 

Secrecy and unaccountability will be hallmarks of America's

government; constant surveillance of its citizens will become routine.

With the advent of newer technologies the complete whereabouts of

citizens will be known at all times. The national ID card will contain

all the biometric information about a person, its carrier able to be

tracked through GPS surveillance. The introduction of permanent police

stops throughout various city streets, state highways and borders will

assure authorities of one's intentions, our vehicles, already equipped

with GPS, ransacked without need for reasonable suspicion or probable

cause.

 

The intrusion by the corporatist state will define our existence in

our daily lives. Propaganda posters will line the streets and public

spaces; surveillance cameras will watch our every move. Project

Echelon and its offspring will monitor our phone calls, emails, faxes

and conversations; through our fingerprints, DNA and iris scanning the

state will be aware of our movements at all times. National psychology

examinations for children will be made mandatory, with those deemed

`troubled' forced to take certain prescription drugs, made to attend

special schools, creating a caste system of undesirables through

genetic and social engineering. Through the use of television we will

be told what to think and what reality is. Our children will be forced

into conscription, trained to become soldiers of fortune in wars

against East Asia, Middle Asia and South America. The end of privacy

as we know it will arrive with the insertion of cameras into our

homes, used to monitor our daily lives and record our most intimate

moments.

 

Birthed from a slippery slope of America's past and present, fusing

the sins of the fathers and ignorance of the sons, our tomorrow will

be a mutation of the natural regression that American capitalism has

taken over the last two hundred years. We are entering an epoch of

cataclysmic momentum, for the evils of 21st century capitalism, having

gathered unstoppable momentum during the last 100 years, have

generated forces uncompromising and degenerate, gathering power

through our inability to visualize the damage inflicted by our

economic system's cycles. The America of yesterday cannot survive in

the America of tomorrow; to the corporatists they are mutually exclusive.

 

We have reached a moment in history where the opening of different

doors can be made by our decisions in the next few years. Yet time is

precious, for it passes fast and without contemplation, passing us

without so much of a realization on our part. Today, corporatism grows

and festers in our midst, using the fictional and over-exaggerated war

on terror to entrench itself into our culture, methodically

conditioning us, preparing us to its eventual and permanent rise. The

instruments of its governance are systematically being put into place,

clandestinely inserted into our consciousness, one piece of the puzzle

at a time, the easier to assimilate us to America's tomorrow.

 

Soon we will wake not to find a new dawn but a dreaded twilight,

marking not the end of yet another day gone by but the end of America

as we knew her, a once brave people succumbing to fear, and once

intelligent citizenry cowering to manipulation and a once free society

shackled to the dungeons of America's tomorrow. With each day that

passes that we remain passive, silent and indifferent, becoming

submissive to further corporatist control over our lives, we are

helping to cement the unforgiving future of our progeny and of a once

great nation.

 

Through our inability to act to reality and understand where we are

headed we have burdened yet one more generation with the sins and

errors of those that came before, in the process imploding the

foundations of a nation that once acted as the beacon of freedom,

rights and liberty to people throughout the globe. In the end, we have

begun assisting in burying the grave of American liberty and freedom,

helping to give birth to American corporatism and invariably acting to

give rise to the dawn of America's tomorrow.

 

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Manuel Valenzuela is a social critic and commentator, international

affairs analyst and Internet columnist. His articles as well as his

archive can be found at his blog,

http://www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com as well as at other

alternative news websites from around the globe. Mr. Valenzuela

welcomes comments and can be reached at manuel. Mr.

Valenzuela is also author of Echoes in the Wind, a novel made

available at most online book sellers.

 

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