Idiocracy

Idiocracy

By Paul Edwards
Information Clearing House
May 29, 2019

Science strives for predictability, questing for certainty it doubts
exists.

The frontiers of physical research probe realms of paradox
currently far beyond human reason.

Seismologists and volcanologists study temblors and eruptions avidly
but can’t forecast events in real time.

There is no science to predict devastating earthquakes in societies,
though the symptoms that produce them are established and in
America, beyond dispute.

A general outline would include the fact that a few men own half
our wealth and a majority have nothing; that U.S. economic
hegemony is based on killing people and the biosphere by weapons
and debt; that our political system, the toy of financial criminals,
is inaccessible to citizens.

This butcher’s list of engineered malignity should have crashed a
polity so viciously corrupted but, since it hasn’t, the explanation
must be in the nature of its victims.

The appalling capability of Americans to live simultaneously as
abject slaves and complicit criminals in our putrefying Empire
is baldly clear in three stunning recent examples.

The Empire has, by queer contortions, bullied its way into possible
war with North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela at the same time.

This idiocy is supported by Americans--as are ongoing murderous
fund-raisers for the War Machine in Yemen, Syria, and Ukraine--
despite their being on different continents, hemispheres and
thousands of miles apart.

The Alabama government has decided in its Snopesian coma, to
elevate embryos to the status of person hood while canceling that
of women.

This indicates either the general imbecility of a populace steeped
in hillbilly, Elmer Gantry hysteric cultery, or worshiping the
dictatorship of a confederacy of misogynistic, patristic dunces.

Or both...

The MSM, while stonewalling the malevolent, Constitution
shattering attack on a free press by U.S. lust to extradite
and entomb Julian Assange for publishing truth about our
rogue assassin state, has ballyhooed a ludicrous, a historic
t.v. junk fable as high art, demonstrating how vacuous and
addicted to bonehead trash Americans have become.

Separately or together, these burlesques of policy show the
moral torpidity and pathetic inanimacy of a public that has
been relentlessly lied to, cozened, infantilized, made stupid,
and shorn of pride in itself by a Capitalist System that
savages them with the same contempt it does all life.

They’ve internalized it and now act as their own abusers.

The naive cry out for answers to our absurd paralysis,
but there are none.

Cassius said the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves
that we are underlings.

History is a tale of failed societies that lacked the will
to save themselves, so our impotence is not unique.

Perhaps then, given the vast catalogue of our self-inflicted
disasters, the question is not how we can be saved but whether
we should be.

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