You are right as always. I am with you all the way. I have been reading everyone of your posts for about a year now, since I stumbled upon one of your essays and thought: Yeah! I have read your brilliant books. I want to spread your words, I keep posting links to your essays.
But there is a slight problem, an attention problem. Nobody bothers to read further than the headline these days. I might get a couple of “likes” from my closest ”Facebook Friends when I repost one of your essays with a note saying: PLEASE guys, READ THIS, this is GOOD STUFF, Umair has AGAIN given a cristal clear analysis of the situation we are in, an easy to follow explanation of what has happened, how, and why. I hardly ever get an actual comment. And that makes me very sad. Many people are plain stupid, they can’t even wrap their head around a single concept, and there is not much we can do to reach them unfortunately. I am not mad at them. But then there are the others, my college educated friends and would be activists, my fellow members of Undivisible. I want them to read your books and your essays, because I think you are one of the few people around who “gets it”, who is getting a handle on things, and I can’t… People are lazy, most people don’t read books anymore, and so many people don’t read further than the headlines, the first paragraph at best.
Please do not get discouraged, keep thinking, keep writing, keep explaining things. I am trying to think of ways to spread your words. I want to hear you give a Ted Talk. I want you to replace one of the stupid Pundits the Networks keep feeding us. I want to start a Discussion Group about your writings.
But then you say many things Americans do not want to hear. I am an American Citizen, but I came to the US from France 43 years ago, so like you, I have an “outsider view”. US born Americans have been fed daily so much Patriotic Bullshit since Kintergarden that even the best “Liberals” around me have a hard time taking their blinders completely off. When you tell them America was never that great a nation, that it was built on genocide, slavery, and the back of poor people, that it was always driven by greed, that it has always been a bully and a warring nation, they have a hard time. They are not stupid, and they know it is true, they just don’t want to hear it. When I tell them the Founding Fathers they worship were just a bunch of rich landowners that rigged the constitution to keep the masses down, that it is not set in stone and should have been rewritten a long time ago, they don’t like it either. I suppose they are not ready… But then, when will they be? Most people around are sleepwalking.
So until most of them accept these facts, and vehemently reject the tales, lies and fallacies they have been brainwashed with, nothing will change.
Keep going anyway! Keep thinking, keep telling the naked truth, keep writing, keep dreaming up a better world. I don’t expect to see it in my lifetime, but I hope it comes some day.
Your essays over the last year should be collected in a book.
