He hits the nail so squarely on the head it drives home with one swing of the hammer.
Read it. Chomsky covers the Tea Party, global warming, the great economic disembowelment, and all points in between.
In These Times: Outrage, Misguided
The doomsday metaphor also applies outside the financial world. The American Petroleum Institute, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and the other business lobbies, has intensified its efforts to persuade the public to dismiss concerns about anthropogenic global warming—with considerable success, as polls indicate. Among Republican congressional candidates in the 2010 election, virtually all reject global warming.
The executives behind the propaganda know that global warming is real, and our prospects grim. But the fate of the species is an externality that the executives must ignore, to the extent that market systems prevail. And the public won’t be able to ride to the rescue when the worst-case scenario unfolds.
In a 2005 article, Stern indicates that he has the future of the United States in mind when he reviews “a historic process in which resentment against a disenchanted secular world found deliverance in the ecstatic escape of unreason.”
3 comments:
Nobody listens to Noam anymore but us lefties. The Tea Party sheep don't know a slaughter house when they see one. The problem is the oppressed for the most part in America don't even recognize who they're oppressors are. The beauty of it is the Reich wing Intell. and prop. machine have so effectively destroyed the meaning of words that language no longer can be used by these people to express their rage. The very frames and words they use have been either twisted into the opposite of what they mean or co-opted and gutted of meaning. Most of these fools don't know the difference between a Socialist and an aardvark. All of this has been planned and funded by their non-think tanks, nosie machines & intell. arms. We have nothing to compare to the huge orgs. and large sums they can bring to bear, especially since Citizens United opened the Corp. $$ flood gates wide open. LOL , we have Noam the American vers, of the 1984 character Goldstein.
I think people want to believe in the idea of an authentic American mythology. Lots of it is stuff developed in grammar school and then on up through high school. It takes a certain kind of mind to want to question these long standing notions of an American mythology. Its a paradigm shift and the process involved in moving into a different paradigm is scary and difficult.
People are comfortable with a dominant power. So if its on FOX and its winning the ratings, it must be real, be true. Its good enough. We are conformists. Not too many rock the boat.
Yes rocking the boat is indeed scary. The masses seem to prefer being locked down into steerage even as the boat sinks. This is the ultimate victory of the oppressor when he can claim he's even suppressed the oppressed will to resist and even survive. In America the downtrodden punish themselves,
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