Dear Patriots,
The following is a description of America in the book "Lights, Camera, Democracy" by Lewis Lapham:
"The permanent government, a secular oligarchy, consists of the Fortune 500 companies and their attending lobbyists, the big media and entertainment syndicates, the civil and military services, the larger research universities and the law firms. It is this government that hires the country's politicians and sets the terms and conditions under which the country's citizens can exercise their right-God-given but increasingly expensive-to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Obedient to the rules of men, not laws, the permanent government oversees the production of wealth, builds cities, manufactures goods, raises capital, fixes prices, shapes the landscape and reserves the right to assume debt, poison rivers, cheat customers, receive gifts of federal subsidy and speak to the American people in the language of low motive and base emotion."
Many of us are losing the life we wish to live, including our farms, our small businesses, our neighborhoods and our connectedness. We are so disillusioned and feel so powerless that we do not even bother to vote. Is this the democracy we want?
The business class dominates government through its ability to fund political campaigns, purchase high priced lobbyists and reward former officials with lucrative jobs. Meanwhile, the working class majority of the American people have felt their economic and political power diminish or disappear.
Many of the social institutions that should be the bulwark of grassroots democracy-stable neighborhoods, vigorous unions, independently owned small firms and businesses are rapidly disappearing. Fewer than half of eligible Americans even bother to vote , and those who do vote have little faith that good will come of it, telling pollsters they are often for the "lesser of two evils."
Both majority parties have become wholly dependent upon the same corporate dollars to pay for a new professional class of PR consultants, marketers and social scientists who manage and promote causes and candidates in essentially the same manner that advertising campaigns sell cars, fashions, drugs and other wares.
The PR industry and dirty tricks are nothing new. It traces it roots to the work of Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud. In the 1928 book "Propaganda" he frankly discusses his public relations discoveries-using science to manipulate the public from behind the scenes.
If we understand the mechanism and the motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it. And the conscious and intelligent manipulation of organized habits and the opinions of the masses is an important element in "democratic society."
Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an "invisible government" which is the true ruling power of our country. He proudly called his scientific techniques of opinion molding "the engineering of consent." Now you know. Time to wake up and smell the coffee!!! Courtesy: Canadian author Dr. George R. Marshall.
In peace,
Daniel E. Moore, USAF veteran
The following is a description of America in the book "Lights, Camera, Democracy" by Lewis Lapham:
"The permanent government, a secular oligarchy, consists of the Fortune 500 companies and their attending lobbyists, the big media and entertainment syndicates, the civil and military services, the larger research universities and the law firms. It is this government that hires the country's politicians and sets the terms and conditions under which the country's citizens can exercise their right-God-given but increasingly expensive-to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Obedient to the rules of men, not laws, the permanent government oversees the production of wealth, builds cities, manufactures goods, raises capital, fixes prices, shapes the landscape and reserves the right to assume debt, poison rivers, cheat customers, receive gifts of federal subsidy and speak to the American people in the language of low motive and base emotion."
Many of us are losing the life we wish to live, including our farms, our small businesses, our neighborhoods and our connectedness. We are so disillusioned and feel so powerless that we do not even bother to vote. Is this the democracy we want?
The business class dominates government through its ability to fund political campaigns, purchase high priced lobbyists and reward former officials with lucrative jobs. Meanwhile, the working class majority of the American people have felt their economic and political power diminish or disappear.
Many of the social institutions that should be the bulwark of grassroots democracy-stable neighborhoods, vigorous unions, independently owned small firms and businesses are rapidly disappearing. Fewer than half of eligible Americans even bother to vote , and those who do vote have little faith that good will come of it, telling pollsters they are often for the "lesser of two evils."
Both majority parties have become wholly dependent upon the same corporate dollars to pay for a new professional class of PR consultants, marketers and social scientists who manage and promote causes and candidates in essentially the same manner that advertising campaigns sell cars, fashions, drugs and other wares.
The PR industry and dirty tricks are nothing new. It traces it roots to the work of Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud. In the 1928 book "Propaganda" he frankly discusses his public relations discoveries-using science to manipulate the public from behind the scenes.
If we understand the mechanism and the motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it. And the conscious and intelligent manipulation of organized habits and the opinions of the masses is an important element in "democratic society."
Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an "invisible government" which is the true ruling power of our country. He proudly called his scientific techniques of opinion molding "the engineering of consent." Now you know. Time to wake up and smell the coffee!!! Courtesy: Canadian author Dr. George R. Marshall.
In peace,
Daniel E. Moore, USAF veteran
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