I wrote the following in response to an amazing blog post by Simian called simply enough “Cowards.” If you haven’t read it, go now: www.dailykos.com/… I’ll wait.
As I reflected on it, I realized that it states concisely exactly what I feel is at the heart of our poor, sick society, and really needs to not be buried in the comments of a blog that stands so very well on its own. Simian calls ISIS the “most depraved bunch of murderers to darken the 21st Century”; in fact, not so by half.
They are only this election cycle’s manufactured demons; built by us and placed on display by those who sell fear as an excuse for robbing us all of our fundamental freedoms while simultaneously selling us all down the river to the highest bidder.
Is it any surprise the actions of each cycle’s demons grow bolder and more heinous every iteration? They have to… in order to even get our attention for more than a minute as we watch the Evening Bloodbath… err, Evening News over our StarBucks’ and carryout dinners.
ISIS is at BEST the SECOND most depraved bunch of murderers to darken the 21st Century. At least they have the mettle to look their victims in the face… do their own dirty work... unlike our own corporate-owned leadership, who hide in the the ivory towers and put people like these where they are… who did, in fact, CREATE these VERY murderous beasts… with the stroke of a pen, over and over again.
Not for Freedom… or the American Way… or to protect US from THEM… or for any of the reasons they trot out and pay lip service to with every overweeningly patriotic soundbyte; but for simple, unrepentant, short-term greed.
No, they did it… and continue to do it, for one reason: To ensure that the Middle-East remains a shitstorm, so that a few dozen old, rich, white men who own American Oil can NEVER, EVER again have to face that which terrified them most; a unified Middle East and the loss of unregulated profit demonstrated by the effects of OPEC.
That is just how long we’ve been building this machine; these maniacs are not NEW, they are hand-picked agents placed there directly as a result of a carefully crafted, utterly sociopathic foreign policy DESIGNED to keep things stirred up over there so these depraved, narcissistic individuals never have to consider even a minute of their infernally selfish lives NOT being at the top of the heap, and to Hell with anybody who has to die to keep it that way.
The editorialist behind ”Nathan Eckhert” was not some Nostradamus-like oracle making ridiculous, far-fetched prognostications; s/he was just an ordinary person of normal intelligence who refused to allow the blindfold of ideology stop him/her from rationally observing our actions in this theater, applying Occam’s Razor to divine their motivations, and following them through to a logical conclusion that was really, only thinking a couple moves ahead in this global game of Chess.
Yet we all STILL feign surprise when these horrific scenarios play out, even though it was US who directed the show, and shot the film, and swept the cutting room floor.
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”The Brink” is a documentary.
* www.shchambers.com