[lbo-talk] Just another reason why the proles don't get it....

[Mike Ballard]

On top of the reified, pro-RC authoritarian consciousness which is part
and parcel of the ongoing psy-war waged to win the hearts and minds of
the working class from day one, we have the almost total evisceration
of democracy under the rule of the 21st Century bourgeoisie.  But who
can remember much of anything in a society which sees knowledge and
experience of the newest commodity as its most important value.

Regards,
Mike B)
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Gore Vidal: Well, the Congress has ceded--which it cannot do--but it
has ceded its power to declare war. That is written in the
Constitution. It's the most important thing in the Constitution,
ultimately. And having ceded that to the Executive Branch, he can
declare war whenever he finds terrorism. Now, terrorism is a wonderful
invention because it doesn't mean anything. It's an abstract noun. You
can't have a war against an abstract noun; it's like having a war
against dandruff. It's meaningless.

But you can terrify people. The art of government now, the art of
control as practiced by the current junta, is: Keep the people
frightened. It's exactly what Adolf Hitler and his gang did. Keep them
frightened: The Russians are coming. The Poles are killing Germans who
live within the borders of Poland. The Czechs are doing the same thing
in the Sudetenland. These are evil people. We must go after them. We
must save our kin.

Keep everybody frightened, tell them lies--and the bigger the lie, the
more they'll believe it. There's nothing the average American now
believes (because he's been told it 10,000 times a day) that is true.
Now how do you undo so much disinformation? Well, you have to have
truth squads at work 24 hours a day every day. And we don't have them.

Full:
http://citypages.com/databank/26/1268/article13085.asp

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