The End Of Guardian Angels
Wed Sep 1, 2010 8:13:15 pm

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Gorbachev to Reagan: "I'm going to do the worse thing one human can do to another. I'm going to take away your enemy." It appears Gorbachev was correct.
It always has seemed surreal to me that the majority follow the directives of their masters so well.
Of course in the US we don't even believe we have masters. It's a really good inside joke I suspect.
To me it seems that the most constant of these directives is who we should hate. In the past we hated the communists even while we knew very little about them. Today we hate liberals and anyone who opposes our interference in their land. I don't think "their land" is a useful expression except to say that there is land that certain peoples occupied. Like the ancient Roman Empire we don't recognize ownership of land by people who are "less" civilized than us. We never have recognized the rights of indigenous peoples because if we didn't take their land someone else would. I know of the US Supreme Court decision that recognizes the rights of American natives reservations but those rights have been violated very frequently so I don't considered that a very recognized, acknowledged or more importantly implemented Supreme Court decision.

The myth the US population operates under is that of individual independence. Groups that ban together for the benefit of their members are distrusted usually. Exceptions to that would be noble groups with altruistic purposes like the Ku Klux Klan. Is that nervy of me to post about the Kan like that? Yeah maybe since except for the name people like Beck and Limbaugh are using the very same tactics and language and at last look becoming very popular. With the resurrection of the white male system of bully-ism is there any question who will be devalued?

I recently re-watched Cool Hand Luke-a film of the late 60's featuring Paul Newman. What hit me most was that the film makers were able to portray prisoners in a sort of compassionate light. My friend who watched the film with me said it even stronger-Our sympathies now are with the Bosses, the prison guards and management. Anyway I suspect most people can't enter into the set up of Cool Hand Luke anymore and that's because the Bosses, Owners, Management, or Masters have paid people like Limbaugh to convince us that compassion is for idiots.

Being older and having watched Cool Hand Luke not long after it first came out I can remember that people who called themselves Americans once considered compassion a human trait. Those same people once thought about people who had had some bad luck or fell through the cracks. Americans once actually rooted for the underdog, and we reflected on the phrase "There for the grace of God go I." American Government and those entrusted to performing duty for that service tried however imperfectly to improve the lives of the citizenry but now government itself is bad just like those groups who try to help their members.

In the aftermath of the re-privileging of the Bosses, which is mostly just returning them to favored public status since they never lost any privilege, all your interactions with government will be handled by Corporate Directors.
And then you will learn why compassion is an essential part of being human but it will be too late for you.