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.”