James Bouder
YouTubeMon, 09 Jul 2012 15:58 UTC
Opening scene of the new HBO series
The Newsroom explaining why America is not the greatest country in the world.
Comment: Close, but not close enough. At no point in history was America 'The Greatest'. Sure, some great things have come out of America, but the same could be said for any country. In a project extending back to the late 19th Century, America being 'The Greatest' is part of the mythologized history that is drilled into Americans generation after generation (think 'Manifest Destiny') in order to make them acquiesce to global military dominance on behalf of the international banking elite that controls them.
JFK realised what was going on and tried to lift the veil from Americans' eyes, but he was taken out. In that moment Americans had a choice. They chose instead to believe the lies and embraced the illusion that they are living the 'American Dream'. So their country has remained firmly in the death grip of a bunch of concentrated psychopaths who cloak themselves in the flag.
You know why they call it the American Dream? Because, as George Carlin put it,
you have to be asleep to believe in it.
"We lead the world in only 3 catagories"
1. Number of incacerated citizens per capita.
2. Number of adults who believe in angels.
3. And defence spending.
I'm not sure this is something to be proud of. Perhaps they could add the number of people who believe in an illusion that they are citizens of the .... 'greatest country in the world'.... Oh Rome, here we come again?
What makes a great country? Great individuals, not large human herds idealising the conformist behaviour of what a cow or a sheep would do. There's plenty of these types of people in any population. You'd expect that. We (where ever we are, and which ever country we are in), don't need any more of their influence.
Conformity? Is it the road to ruin?
If this is so, then Questioning must be the road to salvation.