America's massive effort to distort and suppress truth
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America's massive effort to distort and suppress truth
by Paul Edwards
informationclearinghouse.info (May 30 2023)
Humans love legends. They're in thrall to them. It's universal. Human
societies, in all their diversity and distinctions, are ruled, in
their deepest fundamental beliefs and convictions, by myths, a term
formal and less current than the common word legends, but with the
same meaning. The dictionary defines both as "any invented story,
idea, or concept", "any imaginary or fictitious thing or person", and
"any collective belief that is accepted uncritically", that is,
without a factual basis.
This follows naturally, inevitably, from the custom that children
everywhere are raised on stories, tales, and fantasies with no
grounding in actuality. It is the function of such tales, not to
reproduce realities of the world but rather, by stimulating their
imaginations, to excite, amuse, and beguile children, and make their
moral impact through drama and example. Our minds, so conditioned in
youth, respond eagerly to legends in our maturity.
It would be difficult to say, at this stage, whether the myth of
Christianity or of Capitalism has the strongest hold on humanity. What
is undeniable is that both are myths that have long exerted tremendous
influence over the minds of much of mankind.
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Christian dogma has been far more historically and damagingly attacked
as absurdity and nonsense than Capitalism's catechism and yet, exposed
and exploded as infantile myth repeatedly, over hundreds of years, it
continues to hold hundreds of millions of people's passionate loyalty;
nominally, if not in actual practice.
Capitalism, being of far more recent advent, and still in its period
of maximum ascendancy, has not taken the thorough shellacking
Christianity has absorbed. This, despite the fact that its mythical
nature is at least as blatantly, obviously absurd as that based on an
imaginary God and putative Savior. It took nearly a thousand years for
the egregious foolishness of Christian dogma to begin to be battered
by honest intelligence, which explains the eluding by Capitalism of
withering criticism that broke Christianity down.
There is a perfect example being exhibited right now of the way
Capitalism's huckster fairy tale has escaped responsible analysis in
America. It is the ludicrous clown show known as "funding the
government". We are advised that unless the limit or "ceiling" of the
Federal debt is raised, all manner of disastrous things will happen
and, no doubt, they will, but they are all a function of the profound
idiocy of our method of financing the government.
Capitalism, which has always represented only the topmost tier of the
financially affluent and their banks - those premier criminal organs
of chicanery and fraud - convinced politicians and courts - like a
father lecturing his children - that government, while in theory it
exists to benefit The People, in fact owes allegiance only to the
money elite that set it up and owns it. Thus, governments under
Capitalism have the double burden of being required to borrow the
funds that enable them to defend entrenched wealth.
This is the most spectacular fraud in the history of crime, for it
makes government directly subordinate to Capitalism. This devastating
megascam was instituted long before anyone but extremely wealthy
elites had any idea of what government was, or what it did so that The
People believed this was the only way it had ever been or ever could
be. That is, of course, utter bullshit.
The evil of this system can be better understood by comparing
government to a private entity. Say you want to start a business and
you need money. You take a loan from a bank. You owe a debt then and
interest on the loan to be paid from your profits.
Government's job is not to make money but, in theory, to care for its
people, emphasis on "in theory". Furthermore, a government is, by
definition, the supreme power of the state. As a sovereign entity -
viz, "having supreme rank, power and authority" - it has all the
rights of a ruling organ, including inherently that of issuing money
for its own maintenance. Under Capitalism, that right has been usurped
from government which, though sovereign, must act as a supplicant,
required to borrow money from a private entity within its complex
apparatus in order to operate. In other words, government is forced to
act as an enslaved cash cow for the Capitalist Tyranny that owns and
controls it.
We are now being treated to a nauseating Punch and Judy show of our
sleazy, money-whoring parties bashing each other over the specifics of
a slimy deal to allow this grifting lunacy, rather than denouncing and
dismantling the rotten, dishonest system itself.
In the old movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), there is a
line, nearly always misquoted, that sums up Capitalism's shoddy
defense of its parasitic, cancerous capture of government. It is
spoken by a journalist investigating the truth of the killing. More
captivated by the idea of appealing to an ignorant audience than
telling the truth, when asked if he is going to tell the real story,
he answers:
No, Sir. This is the West. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
In regard to "funding the government" - like so much in American
polity, with the craven imbecility of our dirty press, and our vilely
corrupt political parties - printing the legend of Capitalism is what
is always done, to our great cost as a nation. America's massive
effort to distort and suppress truth is killing even our capacity to
distinguish it.
The great Johnathan Swift said, "Falsehood flies; and the Truth comes
limping after". Truth no longer even limps; it is gagged and shackled.
_____
Paul Edwards is a writer and filmmaker in Montana. He can be reached
at hgm...@bresnan.net
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by Paul Edwards
informationclearinghouse.info (May 30 2023)
Humans love legends. They're in thrall to them. It's universal. Human
societies, in all their diversity and distinctions, are ruled, in
their deepest fundamental beliefs and convictions, by myths, a term
formal and less current than the common word legends, but with the
same meaning. The dictionary defines both as "any invented story,
idea, or concept", "any imaginary or fictitious thing or person", and
"any collective belief that is accepted uncritically", that is,
without a factual basis.
This follows naturally, inevitably, from the custom that children
everywhere are raised on stories, tales, and fantasies with no
grounding in actuality. It is the function of such tales, not to
reproduce realities of the world but rather, by stimulating their
imaginations, to excite, amuse, and beguile children, and make their
moral impact through drama and example. Our minds, so conditioned in
youth, respond eagerly to legends in our maturity.
It would be difficult to say, at this stage, whether the myth of
Christianity or of Capitalism has the strongest hold on humanity. What
is undeniable is that both are myths that have long exerted tremendous
influence over the minds of much of mankind.
Are You Tired of the Lies and Non-Stop Propaganda?
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Christian dogma has been far more historically and damagingly attacked
as absurdity and nonsense than Capitalism's catechism and yet, exposed
and exploded as infantile myth repeatedly, over hundreds of years, it
continues to hold hundreds of millions of people's passionate loyalty;
nominally, if not in actual practice.
Capitalism, being of far more recent advent, and still in its period
of maximum ascendancy, has not taken the thorough shellacking
Christianity has absorbed. This, despite the fact that its mythical
nature is at least as blatantly, obviously absurd as that based on an
imaginary God and putative Savior. It took nearly a thousand years for
the egregious foolishness of Christian dogma to begin to be battered
by honest intelligence, which explains the eluding by Capitalism of
withering criticism that broke Christianity down.
There is a perfect example being exhibited right now of the way
Capitalism's huckster fairy tale has escaped responsible analysis in
America. It is the ludicrous clown show known as "funding the
government". We are advised that unless the limit or "ceiling" of the
Federal debt is raised, all manner of disastrous things will happen
and, no doubt, they will, but they are all a function of the profound
idiocy of our method of financing the government.
Capitalism, which has always represented only the topmost tier of the
financially affluent and their banks - those premier criminal organs
of chicanery and fraud - convinced politicians and courts - like a
father lecturing his children - that government, while in theory it
exists to benefit The People, in fact owes allegiance only to the
money elite that set it up and owns it. Thus, governments under
Capitalism have the double burden of being required to borrow the
funds that enable them to defend entrenched wealth.
This is the most spectacular fraud in the history of crime, for it
makes government directly subordinate to Capitalism. This devastating
megascam was instituted long before anyone but extremely wealthy
elites had any idea of what government was, or what it did so that The
People believed this was the only way it had ever been or ever could
be. That is, of course, utter bullshit.
The evil of this system can be better understood by comparing
government to a private entity. Say you want to start a business and
you need money. You take a loan from a bank. You owe a debt then and
interest on the loan to be paid from your profits.
Government's job is not to make money but, in theory, to care for its
people, emphasis on "in theory". Furthermore, a government is, by
definition, the supreme power of the state. As a sovereign entity -
viz, "having supreme rank, power and authority" - it has all the
rights of a ruling organ, including inherently that of issuing money
for its own maintenance. Under Capitalism, that right has been usurped
from government which, though sovereign, must act as a supplicant,
required to borrow money from a private entity within its complex
apparatus in order to operate. In other words, government is forced to
act as an enslaved cash cow for the Capitalist Tyranny that owns and
controls it.
We are now being treated to a nauseating Punch and Judy show of our
sleazy, money-whoring parties bashing each other over the specifics of
a slimy deal to allow this grifting lunacy, rather than denouncing and
dismantling the rotten, dishonest system itself.
In the old movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), there is a
line, nearly always misquoted, that sums up Capitalism's shoddy
defense of its parasitic, cancerous capture of government. It is
spoken by a journalist investigating the truth of the killing. More
captivated by the idea of appealing to an ignorant audience than
telling the truth, when asked if he is going to tell the real story,
he answers:
No, Sir. This is the West. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
In regard to "funding the government" - like so much in American
polity, with the craven imbecility of our dirty press, and our vilely
corrupt political parties - printing the legend of Capitalism is what
is always done, to our great cost as a nation. America's massive
effort to distort and suppress truth is killing even our capacity to
distinguish it.
The great Johnathan Swift said, "Falsehood flies; and the Truth comes
limping after". Truth no longer even limps; it is gagged and shackled.
_____
Paul Edwards is a writer and filmmaker in Montana. He can be reached
at hgm...@bresnan.net
Views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do
not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information Clearing House.
Registration is not necessary to post comments. We ask only that you
do not use obscene or offensive language. Please be respectful of
others.
Click Here to Support Information Clearing House:
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In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, this material is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior
interest in receiving the included information for research and
educational purposes. Information Clearing House has no affiliation
whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is Information
ClearingHouse endorsed or sponsored by the originator.)
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