I didn't mean for this to happen, so if I die in my sleep, it was an accident (honestly). And I'm sorry. I had a few drinks and took some pills so that I could sleep (being the joyful citizen of a capitalist theocracy, I must awake at 5AM tomorrow for work -- and I rarely see that time of morning).
If I do pass, however, I'll be at peace. This country-- more accurately its citizens (well, most of them) and government -- is so fucked at this point that we've reached the D.N.R. phase. Do Not Resuscitate because we are beyond the point of saving, and there is little-- no, there is nothing that I or an army of me could do to jolt this nation's citizenry from its collective slumber of apathy.
Most of you don't care about the atrocities -- US government-supported atrocities (Obama still supports off-shore drilling) -- occurring in the Gulf RIGHT NOW.
Most of you don't care about the human rights violations occurring right now in Gaza. Again, violations that receive the full backing (funds and military machinery) by the US government, including the killing of nine aid workers, one of them being an American who was shot point-blank four times in the head and one in the chest.
THESE ARE NOT CONSPIRACIES, BY THE WAY. STOP GOOGLING FOR FUNNY KITTEN VIDEOS AND PORN AND RESEARCH THE STORIES REPORTED ONLY BY THE UNDERGROUND MEDIA. You should follow @ggreenwald --Salon writer Glenn Greenwald-- on Twitter, who writes and retweets reputable stories you won't find in the cesspool of mainstream media.
And earlier this evening on Marketplace from American Public Media (jump to 3:39), David Lienhard discussed the flawed ability of people to make proper cost-benefit analyses, by "underestimating the odds of something unlikely, but that brings huge costs, like an oil rig blowing up, or the collapse of the housing industry; yet, paradoxically, we overestimate the odds of something rarely happening, like plane crashes. We believe they are more common than they really are, yet we react more to them then to car crashes, which occur much more frequently and are much more deadly to plane crashes." What he failed to mention was how this human and very flawed logic occurs when faced with the "horrific" and "large" group al-Queada terrorists and like-minded groups seething to kill innocent Americans. You're more likely to die on the motorway than dying from an Islamist's suicide belt. The terrorist threat was used as a fear tool by the GW Bush White House, which led to the passage of The Patriot Act. That same Act and similar tactics are being used by the Obama White House, unfortunately.
You need to watch all three of these BBC documentaries (for free, I might add): Power of Nighmares. The films will open your eyes to DOCUMENTED lies and embellishments that furthered American-Capitalist dominance over its country's people and millions throughout the world. It's a must watch and covers decades of shady tactics used by our government
I have now come to realize that Orwell's 1984 is the most terrifying book I've ever read, because, as I age, I see more and more, especially with the implementation of the Internet, which wasn't a device in 1984, of that fictional novel tearing into the real-life world of nonfiction, the purest form of nonfiction: no pages needed -- this is your actual REALITY. And it is being intruded upon through streams of data.
In a recent Nylon magazine interview, M.I.A. (tweeted by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy as the "Glenn Beck of the Left"), offered an intriguing theory: Facebook and Google were CIA projects. Far reaching, I know; but just how close are we to Orwell's 1984? If we are closer than we believe, M.I.A.'s theories don't seem so extreme. Just saying.
I have now come to realize that Orwell's 1984 is the most terrifying book I've ever read, because, as I age, I see more and more, especially with the implementation of the Internet, which wasn't a device in 1984, of that fictional novel tearing into the real-life world of nonfiction, the purest form of nonfiction: no pages needed -- this is your actual REALITY. And it is being intruded upon through streams of data.
In a recent Nylon magazine interview, M.I.A. (tweeted by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy as the "Glenn Beck of the Left"), offered an intriguing theory: Facebook and Google were CIA projects. Far reaching, I know; but just how close are we to Orwell's 1984? If we are closer than we believe, M.I.A.'s theories don't seem so extreme. Just saying.
But seriously, watch The Power of Nightmares. Intriguing. And terrifying.
I hope a breath from my sleeping lips will not be the last. If so, in the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson, "Don't take any guff from these fucking swine."
xx
(I love you, Panda Bear.)
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