"The Army of Good Americans"

This is the best, most well written thing I've read all year. [all 6 days of it] No. Really. It's good. Take a gander. Like a well made meal it left me feeling nourished.

Having grown up bombarded with advertising/brainwashing - so cal resort town red suburbia style - I appreciate it when someone much more articulate than I am disects the sociology involved in maintaining our corporate american state.

Anyway have a look. Enjoy.  

If you like it pass the word around. It'd be nice if such a fine piece of work got read and appreciated.  I can only dream to aspire to such works.

•  An army of One.

  Hugh Thompson Jr., dies at 62.  
  My Lai. (NSFW photo) "'We had conspired with the government of South Vietnam to literally destroy the hopes, aspirations and emotional stability of thirteen thousand human beings...This was not war it is genocide ....'."

  "Thompson landed his chopper between the troops and the shelter, then jumped out and confronted the lieutenant in charge of the chase...Furious, Thompson announced he was taking the civilians out.He went back to Colburn and Andreotta and told them if the Americans fired, to shoot them."

  Herein lays the Army of one good American.
  

  by thor on Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 09:06:00 PM PDT

•  This is Beautiful

  This guy writes beautifully, if a bit long.

  by alyosha on Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 09:58:03 PM PDT

  •  yes ,a great meal

    even if a bit large , it is gormet  , thx  .

    by cognitive dissonance on Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 10:02:10 PM PDT

•  my favorite quote:

  For they are the Army of Good Americans, fearing what they do not know or understand, easily led into the dark expanses of human nature, ignorant to the ease with which they are manipulated and made blind to the power they willingly cede to the criminals and murderers in power. Birthed from the rubble of the World Trade Center, rising like a phoenix on 9/11 to claim dominion over America, this army has been the oxygen-rich blood maintaining alive the criminals in office.  They are the defenders of war crimes and the apologizers of corruption.  Filled with the emotions and passion of mammalian instinct, making them unthinking, uncritical, illogical and without reason, the army of good Americans has become the key used by corporatists to unlocking imperial aspirations abroad and destroying freedoms and rights at home.  It is this army - a large part of American society - that has become an oasis to corporatists whose ambitions would have otherwise perished in the deserts of the Middle East.    

  by Nordic on Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 10:59:53 PM PDT

•  Wow!

  I agree.....Great stuff!!!

  by aybayb on Fri Jan 06, 2006 at 11:03:04 PM PDT

•  Powerful writing

  Yet it is my sincere belief that the 'army of good americans' is much smaller it appears...

  There's no shortage of sheeple, people who wouldn't say shit even if they had a  mouthful but that said, I think the majority of Americans detest what's happening and would glady act to put a stop to it if someone would show them how.

  It would take but a handful of courageous people to wake the giant...but someone has to grow the gonads to throw the first stone.

  by Gegner on Sat Jan 07, 2006 at 12:38:23 AM PDT

  •  No Army of Good Americans...

    ..... millions of potentially Good Americans.... trapped inside their own bubble - (this was a brilliant essay).

    Very few clear-eyed Americans with the combination of financial, social and emotional freedom to face the truth.

    Nothing short of a "mass-initiation" - a simultaneous "mass expansion of consciousness" - will end the current state of affairs.

    This writer is one of the advanced souls lighting the way.

    And if this is the case - the speculation is... what will precipitate this event?

    1. The emergence of a world spiritual leader who speaks the truths of the matters on a global platform in a non-religious but deeply moving way?

    2. Economic Collapse in the western world requiring a long period of introspection?

    3. A global catastrophe (biological or nuclear perhaps) on a scale hitherto never seen... leaving the survivors only chance at life one of non-materialistic global cooperation?

    Perhaps 3 followd by 2 followed by 1

    It's not really a question of a few with the gonads to step up to the plate. There is no plate up to which to step. There is nobody in the stadium to hear the message. They are all too busy "surviving" in the status quo of their financially, socially, complicated lives.

    Yes. I am both deeply pessimistic and deeply optimistic that in my lifetime we will see this come to pass.

    by jpwillis on Sat Jan 07, 2006 at 06:02:40 AM PDT