ap*pa*ra*tus n. 1. The totality of means by which a designated function is performed or a specific task executed. 2. a. A machine. b. A group of machines used together or in succession to accomplish a task...4. A political organization. - From The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition.
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.” - David Hume
December 2011. Recently, America has witnessed the rise of the so-called Tea Party movement, and, more recently, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. Both entities are pseudo-populist fronts for the ideologies which created and run them. In the case of the Tea Party, it is a creation of neoconservatism, the false conservatism, whereas Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a creation of progressivism, the false liberalism. Both the Tea Party and OWS serve as ideological conduits. Neither entity represents We the People anymore than the corporate class or D.C.’s Beltway Bog represents We the People. The Tea Party and OWS are fabrications. They are playing on the ever-increasing ignorance of the age, an age given over to shallow demagoguery and cynical non-governance...Meanwhile, back in the D.C. Beltway Bog...
Consider this bitter irony: America has become the country which our Framers formed the original Republic to protect We the People against. That is, centralized and amassed power. The British Crown was the source of tyranny for fledgling America. But current day America is beset with a more pervasive and insidious tyranny, one perpetrated by the very apparatus charged with protecting it from tyranny. One may call this apparatus many things: the special interest status quo; the Beltway leviathan; the American Oligarchy; the American Crown; generic BIG government, an invasive bureaucratic corpse that won’t stop growing...The apparatus...
The apparatus? Yes, the collective special interests of both the government and corporate sectors. The coalescence of the government and corporate sector apparatuses with the singular goal of keeping We the People, dumb, distracted and quiet...or at least perpetually frustrated.
Consider these lines from the Introduction of “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot” by the late Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: “There is nothing more fatal than sentimental amateurism. The switches were wrongly set in 1789 with the French Revolution. The three fundamentally leftist revolutions, those that spawned France’s democracy, Russia’s international socialism, and Germany’s national socialism, formed and fashioned the history of the last two hundred years and established the “Centuries of the G”-guillotines, gaols, gallows, gas chambers, and gulags.”
It could be suggested America today is in “The Age of the D,” that is: the dumbed down; the distracted; the deluded; the deluged (as in overwhelmed); the disabused; the divisive and the devious, thus what has set in has been decay.
Consider the following excerpt from Orwell’s 1984:
“...the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules...
Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
Now, let us RE-write the above excerpt to reflect current day America:
...Both the parties, Donkeys and Elephants, viewed America’s proles as easy pickings to be dumbed down and controlled (much like pets), by applying a few simple controllers: The constant grind of government and corporate bureaucracy to keep them busy and frustrated; numerous unprincipled media demagogues to keep them riled up over essentially nothing and each other’s throats; layered debt to keep the proles buying and paying; daily helpings of silly celeb news and pseudo-reality TV; the daily introduction of petty, lipstick on a pig non-issues; a sprawling and predatory sports industry (and, above all, gambling); booze and fast food; numerous media commercials; constant hype as regards gadgets and [alleged] entertainment vehicles; constant sophomoric allusions to sex and scatological talk...And so it goes, on and on...
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