“We Need Centralized Authority” Is Causing the Decline of Civilization

The decay of America seems to be getting increasingly worse, and some things are increasingly frustrating to deal with. One problem is the lack of communicating that goes on in the society, despite the multitudes of communications apparatus at everyone’s disposal now. But no one seems to be saying anything, or learning anything. And I wish this extreme frigid deep freeze stuff would stop.

Anyway, antiwar writer Tom Engelhardt (The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s, The United States of Fear) has this new article on the “Golden Age of Journalism.” Engelhardt shares his earlier years experiences as a reader of many newspapers, magazines and books, and his more recent years experience as a somewhat frustrated user of computers and the Internet. While he notes that he doesn’t use Twitter or a Smartphone and longs for a “typewriter” (a what?), he does say that the Internet has a lot to offer eager journalists. So it may not be all that bad that today’s newspapers are going under, as you can read a lot online now.

However, the reality is that what we have in America now are a lot of people who are addicted to their little hand-held gadgets, their iPhones, and compulsively must check their texts and emails every five minutes or sooner. And the zombies seem to have to talk to someone on the phone constantly even though they aren’t really saying anything.

But with all the information now available on the Internet, are more people actually reading? Such as articles on the Internet — or when they click on an actual article do they just skim or glance at it? Some recent surveys have shown that many people don’t read books anymore. Schools now rely on the computer and laptops for assignments, rather than books.

However, there is a growing segment of the population who are starting to reject the government-run or government-controlled education system and are home-schooling their kids. And there are many people who are rejecting the nonsense and State-stenography coming out of the mainstream media now.

But I would say that the majority of the population are very pacified now, they get their doses of electronic-hypnosis by staring at a screen and putting their brains to sleep. And these are the people who support the rise in the American police state, the surveillance, the criminal intrusions and trespassing that various government agencies are inflicting on the American people. I used to be critical mainly of the TV that people stare at for hours per day, but now it’s their little electronic hand-helds turning them into brainwashed zombies who will do what the master tells them without question. Am I losing people now?

And we have seen the obedience to the State and the unthinking waste-fests coming from the news media. In their obedient support of the Iraq War, their blindly acting as Obama slaves and their suppressing of anyone critical of the Regime (such as Ron Paul), the mainstream sycophants have exposed their true lacking of actual journalistic abilities or actual desires to get at the truth of situations which affect the lives of millions (such as ObamaCare).

Since their stenographically pushing the Iraq War on behalf of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and the profiteers and merchants of death of the military-industrial-security complex, in more recent years the “journalists” of the mainstream news media have covered up for Obama and his drone murders of innocent civilians overseas (in addition to their helping Obama in his drive for more domestic surveillance, drones, as well as their looking the other way when it comes to Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning and the NDAA indefinite detention provision Obama craves).

This report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism details the 2,000+ innocent civilians murdered overseas by Obama’s drones since 5 years ago, and compares the number of innocent civilians murdered by Bush (250) to those murdered by Obama (2,000+). But who else is reporting on this?

In Googling this somewhat important news story (ya think?), I find that the articles coming up now on this are from HuffPo, Infowars, Salon, and Juan Cole. Yes, “conspiracy” websites, “fringe,” and so forth (although they aren’t fringe — it’s the mainstreamers who are fringe!). But we certainly are not getting such actual news from CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News, the New York Times or the Washington Post.

Could the Bureau of Investigative Journalism be wrong about those statistics? That’s possible. Perhaps, like Frank Reynolds, the mainstreamers need better “confirmation.” Who knows. They certainly won’t get the accuracy they’re looking for from the Pakistani government, that’s for sure.

But if they report on something like that, Obama’s drone murders, the story may reflect badly on Obama. He’s a murderer of civilians, but it’s difficult for some to actually report that. (It was easier to report on Bush‘s murdering of innocent civilians, though.)

And this goes for not just the news business, but the entertainment industry as well.

But most of our current crop of print and broadcast journalists and entertainment industry zombies seem very bent on their worship of authority, the State especially. Mainly now it’s Obama as their Savior. If anyone criticizes Obama, one is called a “racist” by the sheeple “journalists.” Some of them actually believe that those who would criticize Obama are doing so out of racial motivations. And there are those who don’t believe that but they say it anyway out of fear that they will be labeled “racist.” That’s how intelligent and “open-minded” modern mainstream journalists are nowadays.

The latest example from the entertainment people, according to Breitbart, is this new “brainstorming” campaign on how to “portray” (i.e. propagandize) ObamaCare in TV and film. How to sell this extremely fascistic and counter-productive intrusion into all Americans’ private medical and insurance matters, regardless how criminal and destructive it is. It will not take too much of an effort on the part of those in Hollywood who are the die-hard authoritarian fascists who love their dictator Ruler, Obama, that’s for sure.

But the unthinkingness, conformity and cluelessness are part of the ruling class’s strengths as well. For example, Michael Rozeff recently blogged about the clueless Elizabeth Warren. He doesn’t mention this, but she’s the one who suggested that we bring the minimum wage up to $22 per hour. (Walter Block recently addressed that issue, and so has Murray Rothbard.) Rozeff wrote that Elizabeth Warren probably has a high IQ, but I don’t think so. And some people think that Obama has a high IQ. Tell that to his teleprompter. If Obama has such a high IQ, then why does he still allow his CIA to bomb and murder innocent civilians overseas, knowing full well that such murder and destruction — as was the case with the Bush wars — only further provokes the foreigners to want to commit a jihad retaliation? Or perhaps Obama does know this but that’s what he wants? Are you that cynical? And if Elizabeth Warren’s IQ is so high, how come she doesn’t understand the counter-productivity and terrible effects on lower-income folks of government-provision of services such as medical services? (Kevin Carson explored that problem the Left has especially with “single payer” just recently.)

Okay, so maybe it’s not really an IQ problem, but a lack of critical thinking skills. But I’m getting really tired and frustrated with the zombies and the brainwashed and government-propagandized sheeple we have now, in academia, the news media, the government-controlled education system and the entertainment industry. All these statists who are clueless about the ideas of freedom, self-ownership and non-aggression, and that the State is the biggest, most powerful criminal racket ever in the existence of humankind. I’m frustrated by all the people who are so influenced by the statists on the so-called “right” such as the Rush Limbaughs, the Mark Levins, the Peter Kings and Sarah Palins, and the statists on the Left, the Rachel Maddows, the Chris Matthews, and the Dianne Feinsteins, and so forth.

Josie the Outlaw has this new video on the comparison to prisons of our government-controlled education system, and the uselessness of schools in actually encouraging youngins to develop critical thinking skills. (And it’s a good explanation for the aforementioned statists and their irrationality and cluelessness.) I may post that video here. And Larken Rose has another video to explain a little further in introducing that Josie video.

But anyway, to conclude all this, here is another recent video by Larken Rose. Now, I know that some readers to this blog do not particularly like these kinds of videos, and that some will not like this one with a sort of comical, making-fun-of-the-statists tone. But Rose really makes it clear exactly what the statists sound like. Yes, this is what the authoritarian statists of the so-called right sound like, and it’s what the authoritarian statists of the Left sound like. However, toward the end of the video, a pleasant lady comes on to speak with a more respectful and sensible tone what the hell exactly Larken Rose was talking about.