This is how depraved the mass media are. They’re willing to lull the populace into complacency with the formation of a new cold war that threatens everyone they love, even get them demanding direct confrontation, all to please their plutocratic owners, their military-industrial complex sponsors, and the intelligence agencies with which they are aligned. They’re willing to risk getting us all killed for money and crude oil.
…bstitute for a thinking mind and seeing eyes. That is a hard job, though — and that is the problem. It’s eminently self-evident to see capitalism’s striking failure, downfall, and collapse — that is what this age is about, really. The question, then, I suppose is why so many of us keep our eyes and minds wide shut, instead of opening them. The answer might just be: it’s more comfortable that way, especially when the world is burning.
The problem is that capitalism has not trickled down, either to you, or to anyone else, really. It has never grown to encompass a society whole, and benefit it all. It is still the same as it ever was — capitalists are a tiny fraction of the population, and the ones that count are a tinier fraction still. The capitalist class is shrinking in America today because capitalists have no incentive to share t…