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The audacity (and consequences) of truth
This article in Alternet and the link to this in Truthout goes along with some things that I have been musing about in my own mind.
The people in this country have been living in a bubble ever since its inception. Isolated and cut off from the rest of the world not just ideologically, but for quite some time physically. This can lead to
a form of mass insanity, as it were. Where you come to believe everything that you tell yourselves is the unvarnished truth. Rather like a schizophrenic believes everything he or she hears and/or sees is real and true regardless of any evidence to the contrary. And the more outrageous the beliefs, the more defensive they become. And the harder they hold on to them.
This was also brought home by Bill Moyers Journal on May 2, where he interviews the authors of "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! OR HOW WE WON THE WAR IN IRAQ". Where the authors put forth how the "so called experts" were (and for the most part still are) so absolutely convinced of THEIR view, that no
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It took being bombed to rubble for Japan and Germany to finally get over most of their race-based nationalism which the people rallied around for their identity.
And it may take the same thing for this country to finally be brought into reality and out of its delusional little bubble of denial. 9/11 was just a shot across the bow.
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amount of evidence can sway them. They refuse to accept that they were wrong. And unfortunately this particular syndrome also applies to a vast majority of the people this country.
That is why I initially cited the references to Rev. Wright above. Those people who have been the most outraged by his statements are of the exact same mindset. They are convinced that everything that this country has done and is doing is right and correct and woe to he who says otherwise. They will not ... nay they cannot hear it. For that would burst their little bubble. It is where they get most of there self worth and identity.
Those who insist that what Rev. Wright said was wrong and evil and unpatriotic and more strike me the same as the "Experts" identified in the second part of Bill Moyers show, as well as those who defend Israel so strongly, and those who denied (and still deny) the holocaust, or the mother who won't believe her child has died.
It took being bombed to rubble for Japan and Germany to finally get over most of their race-based nationalism which the people rallied around for their identity. And it may take the same thing for this country to finally be brought into reality and out of its delusional little bubble of denial. 9/11 was just a shot across the bow.
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'91 war, not Iraq war, was over oil, McCain clarifies| |
Excerpt: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clarified his comments Friday after suggesting the Iraq war was motivated by U.S. reliance on foreign oil.
His explanation: He was talking about the 1991 Persian Gulf War, not the current conflict. |
Actually they both are/were. The first one because Iraq went into Kuwait because Kuwait was slant drilling into Iraq's oil fields and selling this at a discount. And the current one because Iraq was going to switch from the dollar to Euros for its oil.
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Now, a commodities conundrum| |
Excerpt: The latest is the commodities bubble -- everything from oil and natural gas to gold, copper, wheat and rice. As with the credit bubble before it, the explosion in commodities prices has its origins in a global savings glut and massive trade imbalances. Like the credit bubble, this speculative bubble in commodities has badly distorted the workings of key markets and sectors of the global economy. And as with the other, this bubble is creating vast new wealth for some, including brokers, traders and investment houses who have gorged on fees and trading profits.
The difference this time, however, is that even before it bursts, this bubble is causing economic discomfort for households and businesses around the world, and misery for hundreds of millions of hungry people who suddenly cannot afford a bowl of rice or scrap of meat. The Post's eye-opening series this week on the global food crisis has provided a grim reminder that the global economic ecosystem has become so interdependent that a drought in Australia, a tax credit in the United States, French farm subsidies and export controls in India can wind up forcing a desperate African farmer to eat his seed corn. |
The next bubble, popcorn. But seriously, before this one pops, the manure will really hit the fan and investment houses will smell worse than a pig sty in August.
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