Land of ‘Murka’
An Inside Look at George W. Bush’s “Murka”
By Manuel Valenzuela
Decline and
Decrepitude
03/07/05 "Information
Clearing House" - - From the highest mountains to the lowest
valleys a great energy has gone missing from the land once known as America,
its pulsating and vibrant warmth no longer felt as the enveloping mist of the
last four years spreads far and wide, from sea to shining sea, penetrating
every porous cavity of escape. An energy of positive realms and humanist inclinations has
been imprisoned, wasting away in the dungeons of human malice, replaced with
the negative manifestation of an alternate universe devoid of light, spawned by
miscreants hijacking the idea and principles of what the land once known as
From clear-cut forests to urban jungles, from golden prairies
to steel-glass canyons, from arid deserts to honeycomb-looking, cookie-cutter
suburbs, the winds of parallel worlds blow, causing drought throughout,
poisoning lands once bountiful, bringing communal sickness to millions of
citizens. In their surreal manifestations and hypocritical
inclinations swaying and tilting the lone superpower into dimensions of lunacy,
hatred and decrepitude, the winds of alternate universes have collided with
those of normalcy, love and prosperity, transforming, for the worst, a nation
and those residing inside it, creating a schism where non existed, helping send
humanity on a collision course with itself, its most dangerous and formidable
enemy.
Come inside the belly of the beast, journeying outside the
box of conditioned realities, venturing into new realms of thought, acquiring
open minds and nascent understandings, willing to question what is thought to
be known and what has been learned, no longer blind to new ways of seeing the
world and no longer deaf to the wailing truth of a nation in utter pain and
mental anguish.
Inside the belly of the beast the world presently finds itself trapped in,
exploring through polluted bowels birthing malignant cancers spread by
corporate indifference, continuing into diseased and enlarged entrails of
gluttonous addictions, traversing black-blood veins soaked in oil, peering into
the empty brain cavity of empire exhibiting corrosive mental disorders created
by society itself, showcasing non-existent attention spans, Alzheimer's-like
amnesia, medicated chemical imbalances laced with conditioned fear and
insecurity, and the remnants of anti-depressant, hyperactivity sequestering
cocktails eating away the minds, imaginations and futures of youth.
Inside the belly of the beast will we venture into,
witnessing the overflowing testosterone of the human animal, the hate-filled,
violence-seeking, fear controlled and deranged xenophobia of half the
population, the ignorance fed by gutted educations and dumbed-down televised
fictions, the castrated courage of the sane half of its citizenship, the silent
acquiescence by the citizenry to mass murder and war crimes, the government and
corporate controlled minds of people turned sheeple and the wisdom-lacking
behaviors of so-called leadership.
Let us observe a youthful empire in freefall, a nation in decadent decline,
collapsing under its own weight and its own self-induced ignorance and
unenlightenment, drunk off its arrogance and self-proclaimed aggrandizements of
magnificence and manifest destiny. Let us be witness to a land in disrepair, a
population in mental anguish. Let us examine a country decrepit in true moral
values, empathy and wisdom, a nation quick to rise and fast to fall, lacking
the experience of history and the wisdom of time.
The Land of ‘Murka’ awaits, George W. Bush’s
The end of Empire is near, a matter of mere decades. The
symptoms of decline are all-encompassing, a manifestation of growing too fast
and learning too slow, of basking in the glow of superfluous narcissism and
embracing the delusion of grandeur, of succumbing to the demons of greed, power
and wealth, of allowing the population to rot in the stupor of unenlightenment,
of misallocating treasure and plundering budgets, of seeking hegemony and
finding acrimony, of arrogantly calling for preemption and finding only
overextension, of allowing the addictions and demons of capitalism to corrupt
society, leadership and collective thought.
The foundations of an empire absorbed in megalomania are crumbling, slowly but
surely rotting to the core, a victim of its own hubris, indifference and
complacency, in time to fall with the tremors of an earthquake of its own
creation. This the
The faster they rise the quicker they fall, products of their
own self-implosion, like an immature, overgrown and undisciplined child, tied
to the comatose grip of mind-altering and numbing prescription pills, orphaned
and lacking parental oversight, never allowed to grown up and mature, failing
to understand human society or civilization, failing to learn the behaviors and
interactions of man, the lessons of history and the humbleness of greatness.
Never suffering like all peoples before, never experiencing
the growing pains of empire, never understanding the wisdom that comes with
history, never learning the pitfalls of imperial aspirations, the empire only
200 years old cannot see its inevitable decline, preferring the comfort of
denial and a life living in delusion to the unpleasantness of truth and the
sobering truth of reality.
In the end, whether the Pax Amerikana fall fast or falls slowly, history tells
us in a most certain way that it will most certainly fall. Humankind will only
benefit to this reality, ridding itself of yet one more embryonic wannabe in a
long line of often failed and seldom succeeded attempts at long-lasting empire
building. The Pax Amerikana, a mere uncomfortable digestive gas movement in the
long history of man, is not the first empire to rise, and will certainly not be
the last. In time, this most uncomfortable gas, which continues to stink up
much of the planet, becoming a festering nuisance to billions suffering under
its wicked grip, will inevitably come out the sphincter of humanity,
disappearing into thin air, carried away by the winds of history and bringing
relief to a constipated world.
Its usefulness did have its merits, however, leaving behind a certain legacy, just as all imperial systems are want to do. Yet it
will also leave its dangerous downside, its most
ignoble contributions to humanity, embedding in civilization corruptions,
exploitations, behaviors and decadence that will not readily be fixed, helping
bring us closer to self-destruction. It served its purpose, coming along
according to our path of development, contributing to our progressing evolution
as a civilization. In time humanity will seek greener
pastures, desiring to leave archaic and primitive empires behind, instead
pursuing systems and leaders in tune to our evolving mental and civilizational
growth. New players are already lining up to take its place and in time it might be wise to teach our progeny Mandarin,
Cantonese, Hindi or Portuguese.
This Land of Murka
Inside the Land of Murka do we find ourselves residing in, the land of greed
and the home of the slave, where eagles no longer soar, where long held
principles have been disappeared and where dreams have turned into hollow
fantasies. Murka is the land where nightmares become reality, where fantasy is turned to truth, where delusion and deception become
principle, where lies are forever believed, where parallel universes and
alternate worlds exist, where Pandora's Box is alive and well and where vicious
cycles perpetuate their destructive forces upon the lower castes of
society.
Murka is the land of profit over people, revenues over integrity, corporations
over citizens, pollution over environment, the bottom line over universal principles
of humanity, injustice and inequality over justice and equality, greed over
reason, and the addiction to wealth over the virtue of moderation. The
principles of Murka reward pursuit of materialistic wealth over pursuit of
happiness, the love of the individual over that of the entirety, the addiction
to labor over the love of life and the love of money over the love of
family.
The religion of millions of Murkans is the Almighty Dollar;
their god is greed; their temple of worship the television monitor sitting in
the center of family affairs, like an idol being adored and venerated for hours
at a time, its commands being obeyed, its lies and deceptions being absorbed
just as its fictions manipulate human brains, rewiring minds and conceptions of
a real world that will never attain the perfection seen on the monitor, sending
reality spiraling into the vortex of psychological confusion and mental
unhappiness.
It is here, in this land of surreal belongings and parallel
dimensions, inside a nation of depraved delusion and unenlightened ignorance,
that criminals and murderers and manipulators and exploiters of human flesh are
rewarded, protected and extolled, elected to higher office, promoted in
business, enriched with treasure and power, and given the bonuses that come
with expanding the bottom line and the wealth of the Establishment. Whereas good, honorable and virtuous citizens, and there are tens
of millions of you out there, are walked over and trampled, becoming the
kicking dog of the alpha males and females, forever kept oppressed and
subjugated, those lacking in honor and integrity, full of selfishness and
apathy, willing to ruin lives and sell their souls to the demons of greed for a
climb up the hierarchical pyramid, are rewarded throughout life, thriving in
their wealth born in sin and in their power accumulated over years of
flattening the best society has to offer.
Only in Murka do laws, rules and regulations defend
and protect corporations, entities exhibiting actions of a psychopath along
with the tendencies of psychopathic behavior. Hiding behind the laws they
create, mold and help birth, these psychopaths kill tens of thousands of guinea
pigs/people each year through their actions, behaviors, disregard
for the environment and by the vast assortment of cancer-causing,
disease-forming, chemically-manipulated, toxic-infested products they shove
down our throats. In another world, in another time, if corporations were human
beings, they would be sitting, cowering in shame, chained in their cells on
Texas' death row, awaiting execution by barbaric means for the mass murder of
tens of thousands of human beings that have perished and been made to suffer
thanks to their products and actions.
In Murkan society, however, vice is given precedence over virtue, immorality is
rewarded over integrity, acquiescence is chosen over dissent, submission to
authority is sought over the protesting of wrong, and callous indifference to
the plight of others is smiled upon over concern for anything that does not expand
the bank accounts of the Establishment. Indifference, cold-blooded disregard
for human life, deranged motivations empowered by greed and
actions and products that befall toxic fates and lifeless futures onto
the population are cherished and acceptable principles running in the veins of
corporate miscreants, lackeys and shills. It is in Murka, after all, where
malfeasance is seen as virtuous, a highly praised
human "trait" that, although condemning millions of humans, generates
billions of dollars in profits. In a land where money is king and greed is an
omnipotent addiction, vice becomes virtue just as morals become extinct.
The virtues of Murka are taught at schools and universities,
forming the minds of future criminals and murderers and exploiters of human
flesh, bombarding the mind with the need to expand revenues and profits,
brainwashing youth to follow the dictates of corrupt capitalism, making its
principles sacrosanct, holier than thou relics thriving off the behaviors and
emotions of the human animal. Many schools of higher
education help cement the idea of prolonged and ceaseless labor, of cutthroat
competition, of individual glory and of the virtue of sacrificing life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness to suit the interests of the Establishment,
planting in the thoughts of sponge-like, developing brains the subservience to
authority that will last an entire lifetime, slowly laying the groundwork for
perpetual loyalty not to humanity, but to the corporation and the elite that
owns it.
Where the Few Prosper and the Many Serve
Within the boundaries of Murka crony and corrupt capitalism thrive, becoming
the frontier of exploitation and indifference, where the few elite prosper
while the masses flounder. It is a place where the
bright rays of sunshine fall warmly on those at the top, though forever blocked
from reaching the many below by the omnipresent shadow of greed and love for
the Almighty Dollar. In this land the crimes of
the Establishment get rewarded with the fruits of enrichment and protected
through laws enacted while the small breaches of the masses result in lifelong
oppression through the whips of control.
Murka is the epitome of human wickedness disguised as American corrupt
capitalism, where working and middle class citizens are
exploited for their valuable blood, sweat and tears by the few whose
wealth and power only continues to grow with each new day of hard labor
millions of people are forced to endure. Having precious energy squeezed from
their weak bodies day in and day out, millions of workers struggle to survive
on a daily basis, living paycheck to paycheck, meal to meal, perpetually
looking over their shoulders for the next massive layoff, downsize or outsource
that might further plunge them into the abyss of subsistence.
In Murka unemployment grows, employment declines, wages fall,
prices go up, hours increase, exploitation continues, deficits skyrocket,
budgets expand, the surplus erodes, debt increases, slave jobs rise, meaningful
jobs disappear, the dollar plummets, the economy implodes, unenlightenment
festers, tax cuts to the rich few continue, the poor are made poorer while the
rich are made wealthier, uncertainty prospers, fear is conditioned, insecurity
expands and the mental health of average citizens continues to plummet with the
onslaught of economic rape, the pillage of national treasure, the fraud of
corporate profiteering and the corruption of government institutions, all
benefiting the corporate Leviathan and the Establishment that runs it.
The population residing in Murka has as destiny a life
working like a slave, imprisoned like a serf, bound to the dictates of an
employer and the commands of a system that see but an automaton in the factory
and not a living spirit of humanity; indebted to a society that shackles us
from cradle to grave, making us lifelong servants trained to produce and
consume, robbing us of life, energy, precious time, family and happiness;
forced to return our living wages to the same feudal masters we work for in
order to feed, clothe and shelter ourselves; and forever destined to be trapped
in a purposefully conditioned vicious cycle of materialism, consumerism and
ever-exceeding unsustainability that is robbing our humanity, destroying our
planet, and condemning our progeny to a future that gets more dangerous by the
day.
Meanwhile, basking in the spoils of human exploitation the Establishment's
power increases exponentially through the pilfering of our treasure, the vast
control of government, the systematic -- and quite purposeful -- eruption of
the budget deficit, the lowering of taxes paid by the elite minority, the
evasion of taxes by the corporate world and the destruction of the nation's
social programs. The middle class is being ripped
apart, slowly gutted through methodical policies designed to increase the gap
between the lower strata and upper castes. The nation's social programs are being eviscerated under the rubric of fighting the
mushrooming deficit created by Republicans while the rich minority makes
billions of dollars in exploited energies and untaxed wealth while sacrificing
little to the common good.
Like the good moralist, virtue-emulating and Jesus following clan they claim to
be, conservatives have, since 2001, and like the good hypocrites they are,
declared class warfare against the lower, working and middle castes, reducing
expenditures on welfare programs affecting the poor, including those offering
medicine, shelter and food to children. To the followers of Christ, it seems,
the poor are "lazy" and "lesser humans," thereby deserving
the life they have in a world of "survival of the fittest." Lack of
compassion and empathy go hand in hand with burgeoning ignorance, racist
inclinations, delusional theory and callous, elitist indifference, after
all.
In Murka, the richest and most prosperous nation the planet
has ever seen, a land of unsurpassed wealth and comfort, hovering in
resplendent abundance, forty million citizens live life without health
insurance; millions go to bed hungry every night; millions of children living
in indigence suffer malnourishment and uncovered health problems; millions have
been or soon will be fired from their jobs, outsourced by companies to protect
the bottom line, moving jobs across the ocean to the next bottom dwelling slave
nation to offer cheap human exploitation; employment benefits to millions of
unemployed do little to nothing to comfort insecurity and fear of tomorrow;
homelessness only increases, growing daily along with poverty and mentally
maimed Iraq war veterans; tens of millions live paycheck to paycheck, making
nothing more than the slave payment called minimum wage; millions more are and
will forever be indebted to their credit card lenders who charge criminally
malfeasant interest rates; education budgets are being eroded at all levels,
and the attempt is being made, rather successfully, to prevent the lower castes
from ever advancing forward and never setting foot inside a bastion of higher
education.
The Control of Education
The Establishment of Murka, as well as those in any other nation, understands
perfectly well that in order to eviscerate the middle class, in order to
increase the lower castes of the nation, the masses must be
reduced to pebbles in a vast ocean. The easiest way to achieve this goal
is by destroying the education, and by consequence the thinking mind thus
created, that a population receives. Starting from the cradle, in those early
years of utmost importance in brain development, the Establishment of Murka is
purposefully failing to fund many aspects of infant and child education.
These policy decisions affect lower and middle class toddlers exclusively, most
of whom are forced to attend unequal, unjust, unfunded
and devastatingly unprepared educational districts from birth, segregated by
racist policies, socioeconomic status of families and by the social engineering
tendencies of the Establishment. As those children of the wealthy never need
the assistance of government for education, it is easy to see who is targeted and who pays the ultimate price in assuring the
continued hegemony of today's stratified society.
Already behind their rich counterparts, and falling behind
more and more each year of schooling, the majority of Murka's children, slowly
growing up, living in both rural pockets of isolated backwardness and urban
reservations of decrepit underdevelopment, will be subjected to education
systems disgraceful in their socioeconomically engineered segregation and in
their abandonment to and failures in the priorities of our progeny's future.
When the Establishment needs massive slave labor to exploit
for years to come, assembly-line and burger flipper serfs to abuse into
perpetuity and military conscripts turned cannon fodder to help wage the wars
of profitable conquest and imperial aspirations, one can see, quite readily in
fact, the ultimate purpose behind the deliberate dumbing down of Murka's
children, most of whom have had their fates sealed long before they become a
sparkle in their parents' twinkling eyes.
The dumbing down of Murka's future continues until the end of high school, by
which time it is hoped the child has either dropped out of school completely,
thereby beginning a life of servitude or imprisonment, or will become a victim
of environmental circumstance, meaning the now young adolescent is woefully
unprepared for higher education and decides instead to pursue a life either
relegated to the lower strata of society or decides to "voluntarily"
caste draft himself into a military serving the interests of corporate and elitist
power, becoming the cannon fodder of profit and the tool needed to expand the
wealth of the elite.
The Establishment hopes that by this age dreams have been
dashed, negativity has flourished, the pursuit of a prosperous future
has been eroded, positivism and idealism have been extinguished, and the
fatalistic assumptions of a defeated mind have set in. This
way, the decades remaining in the life of the socio-engineered citizen will be
used to further enrich the elite, with the person forced to work at the margins
of society until the end of her working days, performing low paying yet arduous
jobs while being exploited until old age, with her capitalist employers
maximizing and squeezing from her every last ounce of energy she is capable of
producing revenue and profit, and milking the newly minted automaton/slave for
everything she has.
When multiplied by hundreds of millions of citizens,
calculating the unimaginable profits of exacting prolonged hours of labor
paying minimal amounts of wages while offering token benefits and non-existent
political power, one can surmise how much the Establishment benefits from
investing heavily in the formation of a dumbed down, defeated and unenlightened
citizenry, each of whom will toil in burdened purgatory for decades at a time,
living paycheck to paycheck, never rising above the caste chosen for them, born
to enrich and empower their feudal masters.
This extinguishing of lives, ruination of futures and
predestined selection into castes has resulted in innumerable millions having
their abilities, talents and natural rights to opportunity quashed, never to
escape the dungeons of oppression and exploitation, never to tap into the
vastness of their potential and always to waste away in a life created, from
the first gasps of air to the last dying breath of life, serving the elite
minority in the historically perpetual hierarchical saga of the human condition
that is the powerful few exploiting the weak majority.
Branded, rebranded and marketed again and again throughout the Ages by those in
power, the perpetual exploitation of the masses, whether existing under the
term slavery, manorialism, feudalism or capitalism, the concept remains the
same, changing in name only and in the slight increase in freedom granted the
masses. Repackaged and relabeled, as if to create illusions
of rights and charades of freedoms, exploitation, subjugation and oppression of
the lower strata of humanity by those at the top has never ceased to exist,
giving the appearance of extinction, only to extend its devastating tentacles
once more, this time born again under different circumstances, conditions, eras
and level of human progress, claiming change yet delivering only a more refined
and clandestinely oppressive system than before, as always evolved to further
increase the power, control and wealth of the Establishment.
With the birth of a new being the same vicious cycle will
once more renew itself, embedding the demon of predestined engineered fates
into each new generation born into the lower castes of Murka, making of human
energies nothing more than exploited and easily replaceable armies of
production, consumption and war molded to suit the needs and interests of the
Establishment. Through the assembly line called human procreation,
manufacturing billions of entities worthy of exploitation, the Establishment
has more than enough conduits of energy to exploit. With so many of us caught
in the same vicious cycle, with millions needing to work for survival, seeking
a low supply of jobs, the Establishment can do with us as they wish, paying
low, asking for prolonged hours of sweat and toil, more easily controlling the
masses, making us defeated drones never to stir the pot of discontent. We are
easily replaceable, after all, for behind us stand thousands more eager to take
our place if we happen to deviate away from the automaton/slave role designated
us.
Control Through Television
Furthermore, the evisceration of education fuses with the dumbed down escapism
and fictions of television to create a population addiction to and reliant on
modern civilization’s new drug of choice. In television
the Establishment and the government it owns have found the most powerful tool
at their disposal to control, condition and manipulate a population to the
dictates of power. Simply put, the television has become, in the span of a few
decades, the fireworks erupting in the wet dreams of every Joseph Goebbels
alive today, a propagandist’s manna from heaven and the Establishment’s weapon
of choice in the pursuit of mind control and thought
manipulation.
Television has become the heroin of the masses, a powerful escapist drug
deviating stressed psychologies away from reality. For hours at a time, the
human mind, never before bombarded with the stresses experienced today, can
relieve pressure and relax to the tunes of a fictional world of beauty,
perfection and orchestrated wonderment, a world that the natural human
condition can never duplicate or achieve. Lost in fantasy and entertainment,
the mind travels to locations far and wide, surfing
the waves of channels in search of the greatest pleasure, and the most
comfortable escape.
Today, the experiment of television has been a rousing success as subsequent
generations of citizen’s fall prey to the heroin inside their homes. Never
before a part of human evolution, the television
suddenly appeared without study or research into its effects on the human
brain, captivating millions of citizens half a century ago. For over fifty
years entire generations of children have been subjected to the now known
damages of television, creating in the population of Murka, a group that
watches by far the most hours of television in the world, a series of
behavioral, emotional and psychological anomalies that no human society has
ever had to confront.
The children of days long gone are now baby boomers, and today their children
and grandchildren are succumbing to the catastrophe that is the television. From a young age blitzkrieged with the repetitive, rapid and
throbbing images of fictionalized entertainment, made privy to stimuli never
before experienced by the young, developing human mind, toddlers, and later
children, undergo a rewiring of their brains and a systemic manipulation of
behaviors and emotions associated with an internal confrontation between the
reality of life and the fictionalized fantasy they watch on the monitor.
After years of incessant television watching in youth, with the monitor having
become parent, teacher, role model and trusted friend, with primate minds now
under the spell of fictionalized conditioning and brainwashing, the adult
citizen easily falls prey to the deceptions, manipulations and dictates of the
Establishment. Using highly addictive and much needed escapist television
programming as the hook and drug used to captivate and capture the attention of
the masses, those in power fill the airwaves with the
subtle yet powerful mechanisms of control, conditioning the masses to the
direction they want society to take.
Through their advertisements the corporate world
indoctrinates the masses with the products to be used in our daily lives. This
way, we are introduced to products and ideas we have
no choice but to purchase and incorporate. Using deceptive images of fantasy
and perfection marketed to us, designed through methodical psychological
research whose results yield the best way to manipulate the human mind, we are made to believe that if we purchase the products and
services we see we will invariably achieve the perfection we see and the
fantastical life we become enraptured with.
Using our fragile egos against ourselves, the Establishment succeeds in
conditioning us to make a necessity out of purchasing their goods and services.
Never mind that the human condition will never achieve the perfection of body,
mind and lifestyle we see, nor that we can ever hope of becoming the
characters, and the fictionalized modes and behaviors, the television monitor
regurgitates into our homes.
Through the television the Establishment not only
controls what it wants us to buy and how it wants society to evolve but our
subservience and acquiescence to the system as well. When it wants war it bombards the channels of propaganda with the images
and pundits that will best mobilize an entire nation. Corporate media will
distort, deceive and manipulate so-called news to suit the needs of a
government and corporate world trying to convince a mostly placid citizenry of
the significant need for war. Taking the form of blatant
propaganda, the Establishment formulates a cocktail of lies, fantasy,
emotionally-charged and psychologically-manipulative jingoism, over a period of
time pushing the right buttons that will mutate a drone-like population,
concerned only for their daily lives, into a reincarnated manifestation of past
generations, creating a frenzied, rabid, blood-thirsty, scapegoat-searching war
culture under the hypnotized grip of the television and the powers that control
it.
Using fear and the threat of insecurity to manipulate the people, corporate media,
in bed with government, over the years having become the mouthpiece of
government control, unleashes a barrage of propaganda, in images and pro-war
commentators, to arouse in the population the false sense of security that
justifies military action. This way, debate is silenced
and dissent is disappeared on the airwaves as once again the corporate media,
the gatekeepers of information, allow us only to see and hear the point of view
they want us to incorporate into our psyche. Voices of reason and of intelligence
are ignored, banished from imparting important
thoughts of wisdom, thus making it virtually impossible for the population to
ever know there are other options besides the horror of war.
With corporate anchors, journalists, reporters, commentators
and executives pushing into our monitors an exclusively pro-war, jingoistic
viewpoint, blitzkrieging us with their propaganda-laced images and opinion,
over months of constant threats of fear and insecurity, denying the public from
ever seeing or hearing truths and realities, it therefore becomes rather easy,
with a population addicted to television viewing, to mobilize a nation for war.
With the marriage of government and corporate power, truth disappears just as
much as falsity prospers. With both entities profiting from the spoils of war,
it is in each other’s best interest to work together to disseminate the seeds
that will invariably spawn the rebirth of a dormant war culture.
Once again the system is at work, knowing how easy it
is to control the minds of a dumbed down population that has been well trained,
and some might say socially engineered, to never question authority, never
think outside the box, never seek accountability and never think for itself.
Easily manipulated, millions of Murkans are conditioned
to believe, from a very early age, that anything emanating from television is
sacrosanct. Thus, everything they watch is reality and anything they hear is
truth. Anchors and reporters become trusted personalities voicing reticent
opinions whose veracity are seldom, if ever,
questioned.
Never do millions of Murkans stop to think of the many vested
interests in corporate media, of the intricacies of profit and revenue, of the
need to expand shareholder wealth, of the purposeful demonization of Arab
peoples and the sugarcoating of anything Israel, of just why there is such an
imbalance in the coverage and commentary of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, of
why exactly there is such protection of and propaganda for the present
administration. In reality, this failure of the population to ever question the interests of television, both
clandestine and made public, is a symptom of the system at work, where children
are brainwashed and conditioned so that as adults they will be easier to
manipulate and control.
Whomever controls television controls the masses, along with
whatever interpretation of reality is created for our consumption, and this
certainty can best be seen in the Land of Murka, where the system serves to
keep truths hidden and realities far removed from public discourse, where the
media, acting in concert with government, whitewashes, omits and sugarcoats
vital information the population is never allowed to receive, where, using the
formula of constant repetition, the corporate media succeeds in planting that
information into the public mind that will best serve both the interests of its
parent companies and the Establishment.
Murka has become a nation addicted to its heroin, fed to us by the drug dealer
called the Establishment, perpetually keeping us in the escapist world of
television. The heroin injected into our homes distracts us from ever seeing
reality. It is designed to manipulate and control at
once, transforming the population into a sedentary herd of sheeple who never
question what is told them. Over the years millions of
citizens have used this most dangerous drug to escape lives of frustration,
unhappiness, desperation, depression and loneliness, never realizing that with
every hour they watch, with every show they are glued to, with every channel
they surf their minds are turned to mush, becoming conduits of ignorance,
molded into muscles in desperate need of gossip and sensationalism, no longer
thinking for itself.
The Establishment has perfected its machination of propaganda, creating the
realities it wants into society, forming whatever truth that
will be of the greatest benefit, not to society, but to itself. Whatever reality it wants to create and disseminate is quickly
absorbed by a population eager to feed off the mammary glands of television.
The Establishment, the corporate world and government have for years told us
how and what to think, how to act, who to obey and where to follow, condemning
our minds to obedience, our lives to conformism and silent acquiescence.
We have been made sheep, one and all, some more than others,
becoming, over years of conditioned receptivity, members of the army of
fantasy, unknowingly conscripted from birth, our minds rewired through the
tools of the airwaves, made subservient creatures dumbed down by Establishment
created education and television, following the commands of our masters, bowing
in eternal submission to powers both known and unknown, falling prey to their
deceptions and manipulations, allowing them to do with our minds as they
please. For the elite, nothing has ever been easier; nothing has ever
been more successful. From cradle to grave, our minds thus become their
slaves.
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Manuel Valenzuela is social
critic and commentator, international affairs analyst, Internet
columnist and author of Echoes in the Wind, a novel now published by Authorhouse.com. A
collection of essays, Beyond the Smoking Mirror: Reflections on