On Sep 14, 2006, at 1:03 AM, joanna wrote:
> Well, I think Lennon had it right:
>
> Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
> And you think you're so clever and class less and free
> But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
>
> The U.S. consists mostly of suburban peasants. They may have the hi-
> tech gadgets, but basically they think (or not) like peasants.
>
> The positive paranoia of peasants normally revolves around the
> specialness of the farmer who must curry favor with a host of
> forces --like the weather, locusts, tax collectors, and lthe well
> being of livestock-- in order to survive.
>
> The positive paranoia of U.S. citizens revolves around their
> specialness in a country whose imperial character is at best dimly
> perceived while surviving the shifting tides of labor markets and
> shrinking social nets.
>
> Because of extreme social isolation and relentless brain-washing,
> most Americans have absolutely no understanding of history and can
> only visualize grand forces that involve "God" mixed with some
> flavor of sentimental and largely meaningless heroism. I think the
> word empire is meaningless to them. It's just a grand word.
>
>
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