Divide and Conquer--the script never changes

[teacherone]

Watching the media in all its glory twist the story about a mentally disabled "left-leaning pot-head" tragically shooting 6 people in a Safeway parking lot into a tale of "Right-Wing-Rhetoric Gone Wild" is farcical enough; knowing why they are doing it makes the incident all the more tragic. The reason is simple-- dividing the American public into warring groups makes us all the easier to control.

If you forgot we are all Americans, not "Libtards" and "Teabaggers", if you forgot that we all deserve a Government that represents each of our differing beliefs, you are not to blame; these divisions have been created deliberately. What better way to keep you from noticing that no matter the administration, Republican or Democrat, it will always and inevitably do three things---intervene into your private life, intervene into the economy to benefit its favored groups, and intervene into the affairs of other nations---than to keep you fighting with your fellow citizens?

While we stand and shout "fascist" and "socialist" at our fellow Americans like two siblings holding a "Your Momma" joke contest, those in power follow the same script they have for generations-- taking more of our civil liberties away, taking more of our economic liberties away, and taking more lives away abroad. Keeping us at each other's throats is the only way to keep us from noticing that the script never changes, that more and more is taken away from us while we tilt at windmills.

Whenever we realize that Republican or Democrat makes no difference, whenever we realize that the left-wing/right-wing dichotomy is a false one, whenever we remember that we are all humans with the exact same desire: a life free from coercion, theft, and violence, whenever we stop trying to control other people's choices, finances, and lives, whenever we refuse to be manipulated by those in power, and their puppets in the media trying to divide and conquer us, the discontent will fade, the anger will cease, and peace and prosperity will return.

I hope that day comes soon.

Peace and love to you all.

Happy New Year,

teacherone

[wizardwatson]

People are addicted to the lie. It sustains them.

A lot of people on these boards are "Nockian" in their outlook. Nock believed in his time that the state was already too big to correct before it reaches its inevitable point of collapse. It's hard to "wake people up" when you can't offer them any consolation.

People like consolation.

If you do this you go to heaven. If you do this people will like you. If you do this you'll make money.

It's hard to wake people up from the rat race when the only thing you can tell them is that the swiss cheese boat we're all on is rapidly sinking and we probably won't avoid a catastrophe.

[Travlyr]

Watching the media in all its glory twist the story about a mentally disabled "left-leaning pot-head" tragically shooting 6 people in a Safeway parking lot into a tale of "Right-Wing-Rhetoric Gone Bad" is farcical enough; knowing why they are doing it makes the incident all the more tragic. The reason is simple--dividing the American public into warring groups makes us all the easier to control. Excellent analysis!

The "ruling class" was on task the minute the story broke. Paul Krugman's fingers flying away at his keyboard ... doing his duty ... blaming people right and left as quickly as possible.


~ Meanwhile ... Back in D.C. ... More rules on us ... More free money for them! ~


I hope that day comes soon.
Me Too!

[silentshout]

Great post. People find it easier to put other people into little boxes so it is easier to assign blame to them rather than. T see how all of us have things in common.

[akforme]

it's hard to wake people up from the rat race when the only thing you can tell them is that the swiss cheese boat we're all on is rapidly sinking and we probably won't avoid a catastrophe.

lol

[teacherone]

Excellent analysis!

The "ruling class" was on task the minute the story broke. Paul Krugman's fingers flying away at his keyboard ... doing his duty ... blaming people right and left as quickly as possible.


~ Meanwhile ... Back in D.C. ... More rules on us ... More free money for them! ~



Me Too!
The framing they use to set their arguments is incredible. I found myself almost almost in the position of having to defend the "right-wing" view point before realizing what was being done.

I am not right-wing, I am not left-wing.

They do a great job of putting people into easily identifiable containers.

[teacherone]

Great post. People find it easier to put other people into little boxes so it is easier to assign blame to them rather than. T see how all of us have things in common.

exactly.

[Kludge]

It's not just politics. People love to know they are something, but often can't figure out what. We hear what others say of us, and no matter how (in)accurate, accept it as true. People will box themselves into those definitions and act out the role they believe they are destined to, set by others. Perhaps it is a consequence of living in a super-fast, always-connected world. There is no time to reflect honestly. Or maybe it is something else. Maybe humans are addicted to conflict because they believe it gives them purpose to be in some type of epic struggle against whatever they can demonize enough to call "evil." Sports teams are an interesting example to think about. Maybe in a small isolated compartment of the brain, a person knows they believe in evil to convince themselves their passion is justified.

Or maybe this could all be solved by manipulating the dopamine which controls man.

Until then, more football is a good alternative to war, I think.

/incoherent tangent

[Elwar]

collectivism...a lot of people fall into it

[Vessol]

As I said in another post, I miss the days when they used to blame music and video games for shit that crazy people do.

[teacherone]

As I said in another post, I miss the days when they used to blame music and video games for shit that crazy people do.

that would be less random than some graphic on palin's website no one's ever seen.

[Vessol]

I've been reading a bit more into the Loughner guy.

People need to stop accusing him of being either a Leftist or a Conservative or w/e.

This guy was mentally insane. He had no political agenda.

http://kotaku.com/5731751/accused-tucson-shooter-asked-fellow-gamers-if-they-had-aggression-247

[teacherone]

I've been reading a bit more into the Loughner guy.

People need to stop accusing him of being either a Leftist or a Conservative or w/e.

This guy was mentally insane. He had no political agenda.

http://kotaku.com/5731751/accused-tucson-shooter-asked-fellow-gamers-if-they-had-aggression-247


i believe the "leftist" label came from this "Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described by Classmate as "Left-Wing Pothead"" (http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/01/jared_loughner_alleged_shooter.php)

but you're right-- politics had nothing to do with this at all. he was a nutter pure and simple.

[teacherone]

bump--

i got some good responses from some people i email my pieces to - normally i get ignored or shouted at :)