Joe Bageant:: Willing Prisoners

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Run time: 05:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxS4AAWBl0   Posted on YouTube: August 21, 2009 By YouTube Member: egodestructcom Views on YouTube: 1698   Posted on DU: August 07, 2010 By DU Member: roxiejules Views on DU: 548

 
Joe Bageant discusses the corporate media-fabricated bubble of hyper-propaganda that Americans perceive as the real world, the Stockholm syndrome of the soul by which we identify with the ideologies of our captors and align ourselves against our own interests, and what this snow globe of a society looks like from the outside.

http://c-realm.blogspot.com/2009/09/joe-bageant-stockholm-syndrome-of-soul.html

"They can’t perceive the capitalist atmosphere that they’re bathed in. They’re broadcast the signal directly to their brain all day long in every sign. Not just advertising: the lifestyle, the thin commercial veneer over everything, shiny and plastic and all. You can’t see it. It’s like if you ask the goldfish the main characteristic of its environment, it would never say “water,” and that’s the way people are in America. They have no idea how their consciousness has been mutated by a hundred years of capitalism and the last thirty years of intense technology applied to that. So I believe that there’s these kind of collective neurological shifts that you can tell, and it’s not just me. Everybody I know, particularly the gringos, who understand the United States and lived here, and grew up here. We all say, “What did you feel?” And we’re all in agreement. We may have different terms for it, but we can feel the change in the atmosphere." - Joe Bageant

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1. Joe Bageant tells the truth

Capitalism distorts reality...and is a malignant system..huge K&R

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2. kick to keep this visible...nt

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3. k&r n/t

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4. Slit his wrists with Ockham's razor

No, systems like this don't just evolve with willing non-participants. They are] engineered by an elite, just as Ancient Egypt was engineered to run all the societal benefits to the priestly class. Capitalism is the religion which is never questioned, and CEOs are the priestly caste who make it run.

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5. K&R!

Liberty nonetheless abounds in a totalitarian democracy. Open elections verify majority rule. The slaves are free to elect their masters, and that is enough to satisfy most folks in the land of the free. That, along with 100-plus cable channels to keep us entertained inside the cage. We know we are powerless, but better the devil you know than evil socialism, where you are not allowed to take out a second mortgage on your cage.

So here it is, top of the ninth round, and Gaia is on the ropes with cuts over both eyes, and no referee on the mat. Homo sapiens are moving in for the killer punch. It's been an ugly fight. But the truth is that there will be no winner. Certainly not man, considering that his triumph results in the specter of human self-extinction, dieback or die-off, or at least by massive die-back.

Call me a grim old fatalist, but I just do not see the human race turning things around. Not because humans are inherently evil (although pimping Gaia to death comes close), but because we are what we are. In any case, we are not going to stop eating, shitting, burning up stuff to stay warm, or following the genetic imperative to breed. How can we solve the problem when we are the problem, other than by self-extinction?

~ http://www.joebageant.com/">Joe Bageant

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6. K&R nt

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7. good morning kick! Joe often starts my day from here:

http://www.joebageant.com/