By Paul Edwards
Information Clearing House
June 18, 2019
Noam Chomsky’s, “Manufacturing Consent” published in 1988, was
a ground-breaking comprehensive analysis of the processes used by
American government to persuade citizens to approve whatever
witches’ brew of deceit, crime, and murder the ruling elite elected
to perpetrate.
Today that idea has a quaint, nostalgic charm since no serious
person would now contend that our government requires anything
resembling consent from its people.
It rules imperiously an intellectually lobotomized public it has
rendered torpid, quiescent, inanimate.
You are now told what it has done or is doing, if you are told
anything at all.
While the stupefied, comatose condition of Americans that allows
them to opt out of the moral universe and assuage their guilt with
petitions, donations, and memberships in faineant feel-good drum
circles is not necessarily permanent, an awakening is most unlikely
since all forces that could break that trance are devoted to
maintaining it.
Government, which Plato, Burke, and the Federalist, argue will
always work to aggrandize itself against all restraint, has
triumphed over the people who theoretically empower it, but
Government is only a device, a giant toy, a Rube Goldberg machine,
and the wholly-owned subsidiary of Capitalism, and the dirty,
tattered cover for its absolute rule.
With apologies to Clausewitz, "American Government"
is the continuation of Capitalism by other means.
Capitalism, controling education, media and culture, ran
an intense PR blitz to create a society of shallow, childish,
insatiable consumers, paradoxically certain that they were
at once utterly worthless and undeniably Number 1.
This infantilization of the people produced a double payoff: a
citizenry without the acuity to oppose the criminality of the state,
but with no limit to their ingrafted materialist, “needs”.
As their regressive, debilitating self-absorption grew, so did their
indifference to their own psychic, spiritual, and social health, as
well as to the full-spectrum horror their country continually inflicts
on Nations that won’t come to Jesus and kneel to submit to our
ravenous Minotaur.
Capitalism, dubiously victorious, is not what it used to be,
evolving as its DNA coding required and Marx described.
It is now so sick with Financial Elephantiasis that it can’t evade its
own voracity and, enchained in unpayable debt, it blindly, greedily
devours itself.
The insanity of world neurosis based on U.S. Capitalist rapacity
is now driven entirely by America’s own economic panic, not
ideology.
There will be no redemption.
Capitalism will crash and come disastrously, catastrophically
undone.
As Marx said, a mode of production’s power continues until
advancing history enforces its replacement.
We are there, and ironically, as the terminally haemorrhaging,
"Capitalist Ghoul" lurches toward its demise, its death throes will
be most agonizingly painful to those zombified American souls who
lost consciousnes to the siren lullabies of their destroyers.
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