By David Glenn Cox
More than the American tragedy, which is Donald Trump. It is the acceptance of whatever crimes Trump commits. “Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His seeing it.” “But it falls, just the same. What good is seeing it fall?” ― Mark Twain
Is there no sense of morality left in us? No sense of honor or right and wrong? Have we lost the ability to govern ourselves? Is government just a grab fest of steal yourself rich? Can Der Fuhrer ever do wrong? The polling is abysmal. Only 19% believe Trump is handling the Epstein matter appropriately. That’s one in five, while seven in ten say he’s hiding something. But nothing will be done about it. “If the president does it, it’s not illegal” –Richard Nixon
The king guts the social safety net and destroys the social contract between government and the governed. And the masses barely look up from their smartphones to take notice. Have we really reached that apogee of decadence? Is there a tomorrow waiting in the future for us? Do we deserve one?
“There are many actors alone who haven’t acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world. We could use their anger. And we could use the honest rage of those historians who haven’t written a line for forty years. True, we might form classes in thinking and reading.” ― Ray Bradbury
The king destroys education, but who cares? The king destroys science. Who cares? The king destroys public broadcasting because they are mean to him. They say mean, truthful things about him. The king has eviscerated congress. Creating a convent for wayward criminals and a home for the blind, the deaf and the dumb. Without even a seeing-eye dog to guide their way. What could Congress actually accomplish these days? Anything? Even marginally?
The European Union will suspend retaliatory tariffs for six months. Hoping in the vain hope this country comes to its senses. The king is destroying world trade and the reward shall be ashes in our mouths. In a time of flat wages, corporate servitude the king proposes, a $2,400 tax on every American family. Let the little man pay so the rich can go free. And barely a murmur, yeah so what?
What would you say if I told you I was Bernie Madoff’s best friend for fifteen years? But I wasn’t a crook. I was Keith Richards best friend, but never did any drugs. I was Jeffery Epstein’s best pal, but never laid a hand on a child. The king proudly states he never went to Jeffery’s island. Only his parties in New York and Palm Beach. Is that the moral high ground now?
A people without memory, morality or history. Good with opening concentration camps. Those freed from the camps describe horrible conditions. Of course! What did you expect?
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
—Martin Niemöller
What do you suppose will happen once the Hispanic waters are fished out? Will concentration camps and the gestapo simply shut down, fold their tents and go home? Or will they look for new victims? Maybe someone like you. But as long as it is just someone like you but not you, there’s no real need to speak up.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
But it can’t happen here, no never! We have laws and courts to protect us. To protect who? Who would protest if you were carted off in the middle of the night? Would the media tell the public of this outrage? Or would they cheer another though criminal carted away?
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell
The Eloi sits on the soft green grass enjoying the sunshine, oblivious to the cares and needs of the world.
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.” ― Václav Havel
A new dark age, not of the world, but dark in our minds. Not controlled by mass communication, but by mass miscommunication. “A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on” – Mark Twain But that was 19th century logic. Today, the lie can travel all the way around the world instantly and never be corrected. Yesterday, I heard a propagandist say, that the Trump’s tariffs won’t really bother consumers. Go ahead, hit them in the head with a sledgehammer and they’ll hardly even notice!
“They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.” ― Eugene V. Debs
“Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live – for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died…And this you can know – fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.” – John Steinbeck
A general strike? Are you mad? Give up my Starbucks? Give up my Facebook? Not go out for lunch? For what? For other people I don’t even know? I got mine brother and other folks are on their own. They won’t take me away to a concentration camp kicking and screaming. I’ve got my rights! They wouldn’t dare!
“…being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences…” ― Albert Speer
Thank you for reading “This Carbon-Based Life.” A literal David verses Goliath project. Billion-dollar corporate media enterprises versus one man with a computer and internet access. And how did I come to this strange role? By having everything I owned stripped away and finding myself in the real America, the one we never talk about. It was a personal disaster and a rare privilege. A gift to see the world as it truly is. The education of poverty and the poverty of education. May it never happen to you.
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