Thursday, October 30, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
"IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, THEN YOU'LL HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT"
"If the statists truly
believe that “privacy doesn’t matter,” why do they get so upset over the
revelations of state secrets made by the Ellsbergs, Mannings, Snowdens,
Assanges, Greenwalds, and others who, like Dorothy’s dog, Toto, disclose the
underside of political systems?" asks Butler Shaffer.
And though I like Greenwald's indictments against the NSA and every other clandestine alphabet soup agency, you have to take his opinions with a grain of salt as Lila Rajiva makes crystal clear.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Powerful insights by Butler Shaffer . . . .
The mainstream media continues to ignore Thomas Pynchon’s
powerful advice (in Gravity's Rainbow, 1973): “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t
have to worry about answers.” As the owners of the established order continue
to metastasize their war systems to more and more parts of the world, media
hacks focus their attentions upon the thinking or the policies of the sitting
president. These babblers understand that they would quickly lose their
lucrative employment were they to even suggest that there are organizational
forces that drive the war culture; that President Bushobama is but the
temporary sock-puppet through which the owners advance their collective
interests by violence over all of mankind. In my first book, Calculated Chaos: InstitutionalThreats to Peace and Human Survival, I analyzed how our attachment to
institutions wars against life itself. In trying to understand why the United
States insists on attacking more and more countries whose people pose no threat
to Americans, one might want to draw upon the insights of George Orwell (in his 1984, 1949).
Politics is a war system. “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be
continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and
ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have
existed. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the
brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own
subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia,
but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
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