by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News
Sept. 12, 2005
I've got to tell you an open secret, psst, America ... and listen, you people
on the Right...
We are all in deep shit because morally inferior people
are in control.
Morally inferior people are using the world's people
for their selfish gain. They're using our mothers, brothers, cousins, children, and us.
We do
not question things, develop our minds, or relate to one another anymore.
How do you think things got so cold? Corrupt people are manipulating
us, are using our stolen trust, stolen power, sincere
beliefs, confusion, ignorance, conformity, insecurity, uncertainty, our
hopes, obedience, work ethics, fears, ideals, deferred dreams, traumatic
experiences, petty prejudices, regrets, anger,
experiences, miseries, deprivations, wants, needs,
sicknesses, resentments, love, attraction, body image, self-esteem or lack
thereof, our desires, creativity, ingenuity, etc.
And they are getting away with it.
Generally, most people who become leaders of their countries are the kind
of people who do not care about us, or about anything else but themselves. They
might not begin their career so callous, but they get that way. They
are consuming everything of what we are to get what they want, which
is to win the game of ruling. Such men rule the world, control wealth and power, and they have made the world's people believe and accept that they are meant to be willing
victims of their rulers, under their domination and control, and basically be slaves to this
stratified empire.
They use the most trusting, sacrificing, loyal, desperate,
uncurious people to feed upon. The use us, to make themselves fabulously
wealthy, politically powerful, and immune to accountability, scrutiny, and
danger, immune to the hardships of life, and to be exempt from the
mutual social contract required of each of us living in a
shared world and human community.
These master manipulators live their
lives as pampered, lionized children running the show.
But in reality they share a cancerous kind of consciousness that all
bullies everywhere share, feeding upon the good hearted and
trusting who are trying to cope with the facts of natural
violence, death, and loss. We share an intrinsically flawed or broken reality, and our self-appointed 'leaders' manipulate us to make our lives worse and their lives better, because they can.
These overweening ambitious greedy would-be rulers of the world are the
least noble and benign people among us. They're the most clever of
the psychopathic parasites that exist, and they walk the halls of our
government institutions and financial places looking so esteemed. These
pigs have convinced the morally superior people, the truly compassionate,
the tender-hearted people with conscience and caring
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... that relying on one
another is a weakness, that losers are poor, and that we are on our own in a dog-eat-dog world.
They've gotten good people with a conscience to believe that we ourselves are
the moral inferiors of these sick morally-inferior people -- the "I always
must win" types, the narcissists, liars, con men, flatterers, authoritarians,
insincere believers, the fakes and manipulators of perception and the
engineers of consent ... have made people of true character, peaceful,
respectful, "live and let live" people out to be monsters.
These consummate con men have convinced those of us who have a conscience and would
not do what they do, that they are somehow not morally dangerous sociopaths, that they can
be trusted with all this power, money, the law-making apparatus of
nations, the media, and the weapons to destroy the world in their greedy
uncaring "win at any cost to everyone else" ways. We have been duped to put it all
in their grubby hands.
How did it happen?
And because we trusted them without questioning our own motives,
without the cynical mistrust that one aware of a con would have with a con
man selling them a lot of pretty promises, we chose to let the con men lie and
elected them anyway. We fell for it, partly because of the "American dream,"
which is a HUGE coercive lie that leads millions into slavery
willingly (yes, work or starve is COERCION, pay or suffer is COERCION).
Being brought up to think COERCION is normal, we never know what life
without it is. We are taught to trust the faceless institution, more than we
trust each other. Impersonal institutions were safer than petty
rivals, but silently the sociopaths got themselves in control of the
institutions, the institutions that taught us to revere the "leaders" and
heroes of a nation ... while we forgot what a leader and a hero means to us,
personally.
The switch to trusting in PR presidential illusion occurred
generationally, and technology helped it along. Newspapers, then radio, then
TV ... and as symbolic leaders became less 'people' and more of an
image, they got more powerful, manipulating the process. PR is now
isolated from the people's reach, and politics has become
super-secretive, unaccountable, and these celebrity like "bubble people" became
both actors and politicians.
They're like characters you only see in a sitcom on TV, they seem like trusted
buddies ... but you will never meet these fictional characters. You'll read about but
you will never share coffee with them. And in this vacuum of social disconnection
to each other, we forgot how to detect the moral inferiors living among
us. We trust the image, the mask of a person, if they look like we
are told to think we think they should look like.
Potential
candidates for the job or the presidency have to have a nice
haircut, a good tan, they have to be attractive but not too seductive, with all the symbols of
a happy nuclear family, mature-looking, manly enough that the woman is
behind him as his accessories, dressed just so, and with a dog and two
adorable children ... just like most of us, or just like the image of "most of us" that most of us see.
So the candidate appears to be a regular guy, as he
panders to us as if he cares about us personally, as he makes promises that tickle our ears, so we believe in
him ... and we voted for the PR image as if it was the person. And he was hired, and became "our leader."
We never even question why we do this. It's like impulse shopping. The
shoes looked cute, so we bought them. When we talk about a candidate we talk more about
haircuts and stuttering than about POLICY, his beliefs, plans, and moral ethics. We separate a person's character from THE HUMAN BEING
that is before us. We disconnect his character and motives from his
words, and his words from his actions. Presidents break promises while
looking sincere, and we don't care, when we are comfortable enough...
Soon as the culture became more impersonal, disconnected, consumer
preoccupied, symbolic, and atomized, the sociopath became someone else.
His mask was seamless ... on TV. Sociopathic people became violent,
romantic, exciting movie heroes, desirable role models, successful
persons, an icon of success and a symbol of worldly thrills. With proper PR, they exude
normalcy, professionalism, class, a cool persona, a
tough guy attitude, becoming a symbol in a suit, representing the good
father/savior. But such phony leaders are really just abusers of good-hearted people.
America for a time ignored the abuses of power, because we wanted the
good father PR image more than the truth. Many of us chose
to see a 9/11 hero, not a scared boy made "president" in a classroom sitting
on his ass as 3,000 people were dying ... But soon in the trauma we became
more confused about what having 'judgment' or 'character' is about, we
started substituting other things for real trustworthiness, like titles:
Priest, Ph.D, or Senator, words worn as uniforms, as proof of earned
"authority" and goodness.
The business suit, the lab coat, the cop's blue shirt and badge. We looked at the way these people spoke, dressed, and believed their lack of
cussing, their invoking of Jesus, and how neat their hair was, and we
learned to use that appearance as a sign of good
character. Being "normal" became the seal of approval, shorthand for
a decent-hearted person. But all this is a sham, a lie we tell orselves when
we don't know a person but have to trust this person anyway.
Images are
so easy to rely on, in a world that seems too big, too complex, too busy, with too many
strangers, too overworked, too disconnected in a sea of individuals, all
struggling for a piece of the pie that never seems to come to them.
Lost in our individual lives in our own houses, we have distracted
ourselves from our own suffering, with hobbies, pursuits, working, buying shit
we don't need ... all to fill up the hole inside where a warm community and
sharing of life once was. We've forgotten how to judge a bad character in our midst
because we're so disconnected from each other. We've stopped seeing others as
relations.
Work and chasing jobs all over the country separated us from
family, friends, familiarity, so we became individuals, and others around us
became objects to fight, overcome, beat, or use. Very few
bonded with us to become deep companions. We've forgotten to relate, to
care, to touch, to experience and share what is inside each other freely, we forgot we are vulnerable, we need love, we forgot intimacy and
community solidarity.
We wanted to be self-made men like the rulers pretend to be, successful and aloof and
in command of our lives. We aped
them so well, we believed the dream so much, it put us into a trance of
work, shopping, TV, home, most days of the week and on weekends we'd hit a club
with music so loud conversation is impossible, get drunk and get up to
go to work and stand around the coffee pot with hangovers.
We got
elections full of rhetoric, but rhetoric is only useful to PR people, and
rhetoric only works when people forget what rhetoric is.
rhetoric
n. 1: using language effectively to please or persuade
2: high flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
[syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence]
3: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: palaver,
hot air, empty words, empty talk]
4: study of the technique and rules for using language
effectively (especially in public speaking)
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When Rumsfeld or Bush say a whole lot of nothing in a speech that sounds
pleasing and makes you go ??? and forget about it, they are speaking
rhetoric. Also known as bullshit. It is a gift of gab from the Skull and Bones deity,
Eulogia, the Goddess of clever words and public relations.
PR is lies, but easier to swallow to a mind not used to
critical thoughts about 'nice guy' 'leaders' that act like your
daddy. Charisma in the speaker makes nonsense appear to make sense. It
makes perfect sense if we just switch off our critical
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thinking, stop
doubting, and stay focussed on the charisma and optimism without
grounding, as if Bush as a guy that would be so fun to have a beer
with.
Gradually it happened, so slow as to be imperceptible, the more powerful
sociopaths over generations have quietly consolidated their power and
kept it in the family, and in certain circles, behind closed doors, in
boardrooms and 'private' functions, and later in" think tanks." We ignored
this insidiousness, and the right especially ate it up as they helped
their masters spread well-crafted PR propaganda that seemed so believable. They created
a culture that looked so 'grassroots', it made doubting their sincerity a
social faux pas. It was in lockstep with their leaders, without even
realizing it.
That questioning and speculation and alternative thoughts, if ever
voiced in public around these true believers, gave rise to the
humiliating denouncement of CONSPIRACY THEORIST, or COMMUNIST, or some
other derogatory claim for thinking outside the current political
limits, boundaries of thought set before us as "appropriate" or 'credible'.
And the bullies among us took advantage of the animal phenomena of
social rank in humans, and perverted it so that they always looked
cool-headed, reasonable, professional, and normal, masters of plausible
deniability and verbal assault, like every sociopath does. And we had
our suspicions and kept our mouth shut, until the bodies under the
crawlspace next door are stinking and the cops drag them out on the
lawn ... And because we believed their lies their false image of WHAT and
WHO they were, more than we believed what they did and said, because we did not want to
admit this dissonance and that we were losing, we did not question their
greed fully, because to do that would incur disdain from our peers and
calls of RADICAL, and LIBRUL!
This seductive switching of language occurred because most Americans
never wanted to believe their leaders were sociopaths, and decided to
trust a false image. They put so much stock in it, so much faith, and gave it so
much of their POWER, they changed the meaning of words to suit the neocon
agendas. And now it is hard to face reality.
Americans have been wounded by charismatic soulless parasites who
warped the system, who coerced us without letting on that that is
what it was, teaching us to learn to be dependant on their corporate
decisions and social control system, and to accept their hijacking of
the world's resources and our lives, to work for their gain, to exist on a
planet that once fed us all for free.
Because some people fancied themselves better than "those people"
(blacks, poor, gays, tribal people, freaks, liberals, hippies, etc.) and had
inflated pride with this never clearly defined idea of
patriotism, that morphed into "WITH us or AGAINST us."
Some Americans decided to get comfortable with self-deception, with
inequality, poverty, loyalty to fakes, acting as willing victims, because
they were SO insecure and in denial and it felt GOOD to not think. It was
easy, they felt justified, almost mainstream. We were willing also
because we all, to some degree, all of America went along with a game of
make believe and a destructive con man with irrational beliefs, call it
social Darwinism or laissez faire economics, or welfare queen myths,
because it made a majority of people in this country feel good in the
EGO to feel superior to someone else....
America became segregated classist, racist, cluster of acquaintances,
without admitting we were sick, shallow, and ignorant, pretending racism
is gone while it still was being promoted by the leaders and wealthy of
this country and the media, in a hush hush sly way, and while we
pretended life was good (even when it sucked and we ran up credit debt to
make the illusion more realistic). Our sociopathic "leaders" stole our
country from under us, corrupted our laws, bought our senators, our
presidency, the constitution was rewritten, our way of life was ruined,
our lives and our community changed, the environment poisoned, and our
ability to care about others not exactly like us was dulled. In effect
we were transformed ... and became too much like them.
But we accepted the lie without ever seeing the perks of wealth, status,
and power they got at our expense, with their callous ambition and
coldhearted greed and ability to lie about what they are.
Because we
morally superior people cannot really become "them" enough to be as
"successful" as them, we can only imitate them to a certain extent. We have
a conscience, and can't kill it totally. Sociopaths do not have a
conscience, so any depraved act and taking advantage of others'
misfortunes for self-gain is fine with them.
We apparently need these shocks of death to stop us from trusting
these charismatic soulless madmen, because we cannot recognize bad
character now until WE fear him personally. So New Orleans is a big death
shock, because the whole disaster hit close enough to home it's
inescapable. It highlights our vulnerability to the corrupt powers in
Washington, and nature's capricious destructive force. Now the willing,
trusting, obeying sheep begin to stop pretending that things are OK when
they are NOT. Better late than never.
They wake so late, because THEY finally realized they could be dead
next and NOBODY would be there from their trusted faceless institutions
or neighbors they don't trust.
Rightwing America right now is just like a quiet neighborhood ... in
shock, discovering that their nice quiet normal neighbor next door
Jeffery Dahmer was murdering people. The police drag the bodies onto
the lawn before their shocked eyes. Murder RIGHT under their oblivious
trusting unconcerned noses, and THEY could have been dead NEXT and
nobody in the neighbor hood would have SUSPECTED a THING was wrong with
nice normal looking Mr. Dahmer. A man that nobody knew personally, but
all had aquatinted and judged by appearances was a normal guy!!! Nobody
would have HELPED them or SAVED them, because nobody knew what Dahmer
WAS!! All sociopaths do this, Dahmer and Bush all rely on a well-crafted
fakery, a MASK of SANITY to hide their lack of morality.
Scary to think Abu Ghraib did not stir Americans to question Bush's
character flaws, nor did the Iraq War, the Plame case, or Halliburton, or
Enron.... Only massive gruesome deaths, in their FACES, up close and
PERSONAL, with no faceless institution to help, and no father figure
symbol to tell them all is fine standing on a pile of rubble with a
blowhorn on TV. They saw they could be vulnerable personally. It took
the entire ruin of New Orleans, and TV cameras recording the rotting and
wreckage and the nightmarish Superdome.
Only horrors up close got the "rugged inDUHvidualist" "pull your
bootstraps" true believers on the right hell-bent on suppressing their
human tenderness to wake up and realize they've been taken. The Iraq
war didn't matter to them, because they aren't "towelheads," the poor in
America didn't because they aren't "irresponsible crack heads."
A selfish realization of their own VULNERABILITY is what got some
Republicans to stop mouthing talking points and listen to their own
conscience, without a political agenda coloring it in. And this time they saw
with a HUMAN conscience, and their compassion stirred again.
In some it
shook them hard enough to get some guts to speak up on behalf of
humanity, compassion, honor, justice, and sanity, and finally say NO I do
not want to live in a country dictated by social Darwinism, tyranny, theocracy, and an abusive father sociopath president lording
over a dysfunctional population playing make believe. They wanted that
lie, until it occurred to them they really may be next one to be
eliminated from the game of life, if society was based on the rules of
Neocons they once admired as pillars of society.
Yep, the sociopaths leading this country go terrorizing people of
conscience in every walk of life, for fun and personal gain (1 in 4
people are sociopaths looking to win, con and control others for pleasure
and ego trips). The most clever of sociopaths get in power, and like
their less-clever counterparts they also wanted to make us to be dead
to our own conscience, and just like THEY are, but as obedient fawning
believers, accepting their demands without the wealth status and power
and authority. They wanted America to be willing, submitted, trusting,
complicit victims to abuse of power. And it is SCARY to think how much
SUCCESS they have had in doing us over.
Just like Columbine got people to realize school bullying scars kids'
lives, Hurricane Katrina and FEMA revealed the dark soul of the Neocons as
their mask of social respectability falls away, showing the heartless
con underneath the PR. Perhaps it has made some of Right-wing America realize that sociopaths do
NOT belong in the White House, destroying us and ruling the world.
© by the author.
What do you think?
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Scary to think Abu Ghraib did not stir Americans to question Bush's character flaws, nor did the Iraq War, the Plame case, or Halliburton, or Enron....
Only massive gruesome deaths, in their FACES, up close and PERSONAL, with no faceless institution to help, and no father figure symbol to tell them all is fine standing on a pile of rubble with a blowhorn on TV.
They saw they could be vulnerable personally.
It took the entire ruin of New Orleans, and TV cameras recording the rotting and wreckage and the nightmarish Superdome.
Only horrors up close got the "rugged inDUHvidualist" "pull your bootstraps" true believers on the right hell-bent on suppressing their human tenderness to wake up and realize they've been taken.
The Iraq war didn't matter to them, because they aren't "towelheads," the poor in America didn't because they aren't "irresponsible crack heads."
A selfish realization of their own VULNERABILITY is what got some Republicans to stop mouthing talking points and listen to their own conscience, without a political agenda coloring it in.
And this time they saw with a HUMAN conscience, and their compassion stirred again.
In some it shook them hard enough to get some guts to speak up on behalf of humanity, compassion, honor, justice, and sanity, and finally say NO I do not want to live in a country dictated by social Darwinism, tyranny, theocracy, and an abusive father sociopath president lording over a dysfunctional population playing make believe.
They wanted that lie, until it occurred to them they really may be next one to be eliminated from the game of life, if society was based on the rules of Neocons they once admired as pillars of society.
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Gradually it happened, so slow as to be imperceptible, the more powerful
sociopaths over generations have quietly consolidated their power and
kept it in the family, and in certain circles, behind closed doors, in
boardrooms and 'private' functions, and later in" think tanks."
We ignored
this insidiousness, and the right especially ate it up as they helped
their masters spread well-crafted PR propaganda that seemed so believable.
They created
a culture that looked so 'grassroots', it made doubting their sincerity a
social faux pas.
It was in lockstep with their leaders, without even
realizing it.
That questioning and speculation and alternative thoughts, if ever
voiced in public around these true believers, gave rise to the
humiliating denouncement of CONSPIRACY THEORIST, or COMMUNIST, or some
other derogatory claim for thinking outside the current political
limits, boundaries of thought set before us as "appropriate" or 'credible'.
And the bullies among us took advantage of the animal phenomena of
social rank in humans, and perverted it so that they always looked
cool-headed, reasonable, professional, and normal, masters of plausible
deniability and verbal assault, like every sociopath does.
And we had
our suspicions and kept our mouth shut, until the bodies under the
crawlspace next door are stinking and the cops drag them out on the
lawn ...
And because we believed their lies their false image of WHAT and
WHO they were, more than we believed what they did and said, because we did not want to
admit this dissonance and that we were losing, we did not question their
greed fully, because to do that would incur disdain from our peers and
calls of RADICAL, and LIBRUL!
This seductive switching of language occurred because most Americans
never wanted to believe their leaders were sociopaths, and decided to
trust a false image.
They put so much stock in it, so much faith, and gave it so
much of their POWER, they changed the meaning of words to suit the neocon
agendas.
And now it is hard to face reality.
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They're like characters you only see in a sitcom on TV, they seem like trusted
buddies ... but you will never meet these fictional characters.
You'll read about but
you will never share coffee with them.
And in this vacuum of social disconnection
to each other, we forgot how to detect the moral inferiors living among
us.
We trust the image, the mask of a person, if they look like we
are told to think we think they should look like.
Potential
candidates for the job or the presidency have to have a nice
haircut, a good tan, they have to be attractive but not too seductive, with all the symbols of
a happy nuclear family, mature-looking, manly enough that the woman is
behind him as his accessories, dressed just so, and with a dog and two
adorable children ... just like most of us, or just like the image of "most of us" that most of us see.
So the candidate appears to be a regular guy, as he
panders to us as if he cares about us personally, as he makes promises that tickle our ears, so we believe in
him ... and we voted for the PR image as if it was the person.
And he was hired, and became "our leader."
We never even question why we do this.
It's like impulse shopping.
The
shoes looked cute, so we bought them.
When we talk about a candidate we talk more about
haircuts and stuttering than about POLICY, his beliefs, plans, and moral ethics.
We separate a person's character from THE HUMAN BEING
that is before us.
We disconnect his character and motives from his
words, and his words from his actions.
Presidents break promises while
looking sincere, and we don't care, when we are comfortable enough...
Soon as the culture became more impersonal, disconnected, consumer
preoccupied, symbolic, and atomized, the sociopath became someone else.
His mask was seamless ... on TV.
Sociopathic people became violent,
romantic, exciting movie heroes, desirable role models, successful
persons, an icon of success and a symbol of worldly thrills.
With proper PR, they exude
normalcy, professionalism, class, a cool persona, a
tough guy attitude, becoming a symbol in a suit, representing the good
father/savior.
But such phony leaders are really just abusers of good-hearted people.
America for a time ignored the abuses of power, because we wanted the
good father PR image more than the truth.
Many of us chose
to see a 9/11 hero, not a scared boy made "president" in a classroom sitting
on his ass as 3,000 people were dying ...
But soon in the trauma we became
more confused about what having 'judgment' or 'character' is about, we
started substituting other things for real trustworthiness, like titles:
Priest, Ph.D, or Senator, words worn as uniforms, as proof of earned
"authority" and goodness.
The business suit, the lab coat, the cop's blue shirt and badge.
We looked at the way these people spoke, dressed, and believed their lack of
cussing, their invoking of Jesus, and how neat their hair was, and we
learned to use that appearance as a sign of good
character.
Being "normal" became the seal of approval, shorthand for
a decent-hearted person.
But all this is a sham, a lie we tell orselves when
we don't know a person but have to trust this person anyway.
Images are
so easy to rely on, in a world that seems too big, too complex, too busy, with too many
strangers, too overworked, too disconnected in a sea of individuals, all
struggling for a piece of the pie that never seems to come to them.
Lost in our individual lives in our own houses, we have distracted
ourselves from our own suffering, with hobbies, pursuits, working, buying shit
we don't need ... all to fill up the hole inside where a warm community and
sharing of life once was.
We've forgotten how to judge a bad character in our midst
because we're so disconnected from each other.
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