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Huxley’s Brave New World is already here, argues author Joe Bageant. The US has perfected the “scientifically managed democracy”…a triumph for public relations but not for popular empowering.
Break the Bubble while there’s still time
We live inside a fully and deliberately manufactured propaganda Bubble, warns senior editor and author Joe Bageant (Deer Hunting with Jesus). The price we pay for obeying passively this false reality is incalculable. Endless wars, economic and social penury, and planetary death are just some of the costs. And now the “Bubble”, by constantly eviscerating our democracy, is ushering an era of American-style fascism. [print_link]
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Thank you, Joe Bageant, for explaining so precisely why I can’t get through to my otherwise highly intelligent daughter (who lives in Washington, D.C.) that Obama is no different than Bush, just more of an eloquent speaker and that by changing the newspaper on the bottom of the bird cage is not going to create any “change” for the better. She literally threaten to break off all future communications with me if I ever talk about any politically inclined subject again and that the only thing she was interested of hearing from me was about how I was doing, in… Read more »
Hi Deborah, a fellow reader here. I too have “communication” problems with my kids, and some friends, when it comes to “politics”. Apparently the ability to enter a productive dialogue is far more conditioned by temperament than the information you first bring to bear. Some people can get very upset when their “indoctrination” is challenged, that’s why it’s so hard to alert other people to the effects of the propaganda system we live under. The “Bubble” predisposes people to first reject alternative interpretations, but YOU MUST PERSEVERE! Incidentally, if you can, do yourself a favor and get Bageant’s book, DEER… Read more »
Hello, Deborah and Publina: I love an open debate, but I have had to accept that my intensity is just too much for some personalities. Even when I explain that the outcome I’m seeking via debate is that NEW INSIGHTS will occur. I like my mind to change–expand. It’s about discovering–not about being right or wrong. Thinking is never static.
The purpose of dialog is not agreement. It’s a process…it’s a flow in discovering… without classifying or judging myself or another.
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Right on, Joe ! We consumers are producers too, because we create the profits for all manufacturing, energy and service industries. Every day we keep the system of surplus value going by our own actions so that the economy is dependent on public spending. That is the vicious circle in which everyone is caught because humans are territorial and need to constantly feather their nests. Take a toy away from a child and it will bang you. Our souls are in our toys, whether it is a television set, a computer or a car and thus we neglect to see… Read more »