DHS Whistleblower Labeled Domestic Terrorist, Censored From 60 Minutes
Her house was raided by a Black Hawk helicopter-deployed strike force, larger than the one used on Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. http://youtu.be/feHbP4k_tdk
I think something we all need to wrap our heads around, something taking place at different speed within each one of us, is understanding how far the totalitarian state has progressed in America. With each new expose' about anything National Security, we learn more about the confines of our freedom.
We are all taught the so-called lessons of history; the atrocities committed by now-defunct regimes and toppled empires, and the steps by which these 'evil' rulers and their henchmen came to power. We learn about cultural and social scapegoats, propaganda, and faltering economies. And yet, we utterly fail to apply this knowledge where it matters most; in analyzing our own society, media, and economy. But where does this cognitive blind spot originate? Is it through the repetition of the idea of checks and balances and separation of powers? Is it the pledge of allegiance? These things had a central role in our socialization, one that is almost always overlooked or dismissed as insignificant. But these concepts alone do not explain the unwillingness to maintain a rational and evidence-based outlook. This is not so much a diabolical conspiracy of the power elite as much as a self-generating tyranny that arises inevitably from seemingly any entrenched establishment or institutionalized philosophy. Even this, however, still requires the subconscious rejection of facts that do not conform to the static narrative that maintains our consensus reality. If there is a conspiracy to dominate, we are active participants with a vested interest in dominating the parts of ourselves that would undermine the foundations upon which we have relied on for our decision-making. We cannot bear the idea that everything we have done or thought, the opinions we've formed, and voiced, and defended, could be based on inaccurate data or outright manipulation of information. And so we block out the unpleasant realities in favor of a blissful mass delusion so far adrift from its moorings that those who would dare to suggest that perhaps we've missed the mark are ridiculed and made pariahs. These are the enemies of the state, simply because the state seeks only to perpetuate itself. Just as corporations are unaccountable to stakeholders by their very design, the corporation of the United States is not designed to increase the freedom of its citizenry. Its only goal is to maintain and grow its own bureaucracy and power. Even the incorporation of enlightened self-interest would not suggest that an increase in civil liberty would be beneficial to its structure. The idea that we are our government does not contradict this. We are oppressing ourselves through the mechanism of a fundamentally flawed conceptual framework, one which actively defends itself against any and all challenges to its supreme authority. The trick is externalizing any system directly threatened by the tyranny of the state and cutting any ties to the interconnected nature of all human and environmental systems. Thereby, one can insulate themselves within the ever-shrinking bubble of their own direct experience, and from this cozy cell, cast doubt on the significance of any move by the state to curtail personal freedom for the sake of increasing the cell's coziness. The extra effort required to maintain skepticism and healthy distrust of entrenched power is far too much to bear for most, they are already consumed by the day-to-day stresses of basic 'survival' within the system to concern themselves with problems that seem to have been relegated to the dustbin of history and have no bearing on informing future decisions. We defeated Hitler, problem solved (brushing dust from hands), Next...
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I think something we all need to wrap our heads around, something taking place at different speed within each one of us, is understanding how far the totalitarian state has progressed in America. With each new expose' about anything National Security, we learn more about the confines of our freedom.
We are all taught the so-called lessons of history; the atrocities committed by now-defunct regimes and toppled empires, and the steps by which these 'evil' rulers and their henchmen came to power. We learn about cultural and social scapegoats, propaganda, and faltering economies. And yet, we utterly fail to apply this knowledge where it matters most; in analyzing our own society, media, and economy. But where does this cognitive blind spot originate? Is it through the repetition of the idea of checks and balances and separation of powers? Is it the pledge of allegiance? These things had a central role in our socialization, one that is almost always overlooked or dismissed as insignificant. But these concepts alone do not explain the unwillingness to maintain a rational and evidence-based outlook. This is not so much a diabolical conspiracy of the power elite as much as a self-generating tyranny that arises inevitably from seemingly any entrenched establishment or institutionalized philosophy. Even this, however, still requires the subconscious rejection of facts that do not conform to the static narrative that maintains our consensus reality. If there is a conspiracy to dominate, we are active participants with a vested interest in dominating the parts of ourselves that would undermine the foundations upon which we have relied on for our decision-making. We cannot bear the idea that everything we have done or thought, the opinions we've formed, and voiced, and defended, could be based on inaccurate data or outright manipulation of information. And so we block out the unpleasant realities in favor of a blissful mass delusion so far adrift from its moorings that those who would dare to suggest that perhaps we've missed the mark are ridiculed and made pariahs. These are the enemies of the state, simply because the state seeks only to perpetuate itself. Just as corporations are unaccountable to stakeholders by their very design, the corporation of the United States is not designed to increase the freedom of its citizenry. Its only goal is to maintain and grow its own bureaucracy and power. Even the incorporation of enlightened self-interest would not suggest that an increase in civil liberty would be beneficial to its structure. The idea that we are our government does not contradict this. We are oppressing ourselves through the mechanism of a fundamentally flawed conceptual framework, one which actively defends itself against any and all challenges to its supreme authority. The trick is externalizing any system directly threatened by the tyranny of the state and cutting any ties to the interconnected nature of all human and environmental systems. Thereby, one can insulate themselves within the ever-shrinking bubble of their own direct experience, and from this cozy cell, cast doubt on the significance of any move by the state to curtail personal freedom for the sake of increasing the cell's coziness. The extra effort required to maintain skepticism and healthy distrust of entrenched power is far too much to bear for most, they are already consumed by the day-to-day stresses of basic 'survival' within the system to concern themselves with problems that seem to have been relegated to the dustbin of history and have no bearing on informing future decisions. We defeated Hitler, problem solved (brushing dust from hands), Next...
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