Frighteningly, it's getting difficult to not be a one-note instrument.
I was thinking something along the same lines earlier today, as I wondered how it can be so difficult to get people to actually see what is right in front of them. Almost nothing that is going on - the creeping, fascist-light "anti-terror" legislation, the illegal wars, the torture, the grand larceny ... none of this is secret, the information is (almost) all out in the open, on the public record ...
But I'm starting to sound my note again, when I meant to offer up a theory as to why people like coolhand89 are, in fact, in denial of the elephant crowding up the entire first floor.
My theory is that people like the aforementioned, who grew up more or less believing that our system is, while flawed, essentially good, would not be able to carry on with their lives as they live them now, if they faced up to the truth of our situation, if they honestly allowed themselves to admit just what monstrous inhumanity it is we in the West benefit from.
Whereas we, who never believed in the system, are mostly content to shrug our shoulders and turn the volume up to 29 or - in my, only slightly more admirable case - post an occasional one-note rant for an audience of, maybe, a couple of hundred.
Is it our relative comfort that makes it so easy to just shrug and hope things get better? Why the hell aren't we going out there to be heroes?
Re: Ho hum
I was thinking something along the same lines earlier today, as I wondered how it can be so difficult to get people to actually see what is right in front of them. Almost nothing that is going on - the creeping, fascist-light "anti-terror" legislation, the illegal wars, the torture, the grand larceny ... none of this is secret, the information is (almost) all out in the open, on the public record ...
But I'm starting to sound my note again, when I meant to offer up a theory as to why people like coolhand89 are, in fact, in denial of the elephant crowding up the entire first floor.
My theory is that people like the aforementioned, who grew up more or less believing that our system is, while flawed, essentially good, would not be able to carry on with their lives as they live them now, if they faced up to the truth of our situation, if they honestly allowed themselves to admit just what monstrous inhumanity it is we in the West benefit from.
Whereas we, who never believed in the system, are mostly content to shrug our shoulders and turn the volume up to 29 or - in my, only slightly more admirable case - post an occasional one-note rant for an audience of, maybe, a couple of hundred.
Is it our relative comfort that makes it so easy to just shrug and hope things get better? Why the hell aren't we going out there to be heroes?