tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post2930493250770714631..comments2024-03-27T17:10:55.396-05:00Comments on Johnday's Blog: 20 Years Of this WorldJohn Dayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-54510720363252773602021-09-13T19:45:20.970-05:002021-09-13T19:45:20.970-05:00Osama Bin Laden denied any involvement an likely d...Osama Bin Laden denied any involvement an likely died of renal failure in a Pakistani hospital in 2002 or so. Various "Osama Bin Ladens" seemed to proliferate, like Elvis impersonators. Osama was a useful mascot, I think.John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-89524520634086271772021-09-13T14:58:07.948-05:002021-09-13T14:58:07.948-05:00Consider the way those who have done so much to pr...Consider the way those who have done so much to provide hard evidence of “high” crimes have been treated such as:<br /><br />Jesselyn Radack, William Binney, John Kiriakou, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowdon, Jeremy Hammond, Julian Assange and Daniel Hale<br /><br />versus the lackluster efforts to investigate, correct or hold anyone accountable for exposed wrong doings, it is clear there is systemic rot from the top down. <br />I don’t see the point in giving much thought to 9/11. If Osama Bin Laden could have been captured alive and put on the witness stand we might have learned interesting details but unfortunately he was too dangerous and Obama was forced to heroically sink his bullet ridden corpse in the sea.<br />Todd Allennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-17512122317775236562021-09-12T21:01:02.758-05:002021-09-12T21:01:02.758-05:00I think American people are mostly OK and hold a l...I think American people are mostly OK and hold a lot of promise, and CAN shift paradigms pretty quickly when it is called for. The Vietnam War narrative broke really badly and the country turned against the war, which I remember very well because Dad was in the war, and got home just before the Tet offensive in early 1968, like a month before it.<br />These are different times in so many ways, but some narrative is about to break and we need to replace it with a truthful narrative when it does.<br />That's something I, and many others, keep working on.<br />John Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123174297818737132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275885258914846834.post-9819795660921794062021-09-12T05:31:31.780-05:002021-09-12T05:31:31.780-05:00Hi John,
A fine summary and certainly more plausi...Hi John,<br /><br />A fine summary and certainly more plausible than official narratives.<br /><br />"Unfortunately, few people have seen how the world has changed...<br />The problem remains the same: we cannot admit that the criminal is close to us."<br /><br />This observer has been TV free for 22 years. Hence, the impact of propaganda is reduced. Nonetheless, the shade of truth is never quite eliminated. From a slightly less corrupted perspective, one observes the American struggle with good and evil. <br /><br />External evil is easily assimilated as the culture is daily fed homogenized mass-media propaganda. Internal evil is programmed to induce reflexive cognitive dissonance. Consequently, cognitive reasoning within the brain is suspended as the amygdala is hijacked triggering cascading emotions.<br /><br />And in the soup of denial, the fundamental question, "qui bono", is never asked and never answered. And the result is obvious to see. We live in a society blinded by delusion while the country is gutted by Oligarchs, Corporations and Banks.<br /><br />As the rejoinder quoted above suggests, the collective American psyche is probably beyond redemption. And with it any ability to admit our real enemies are home grown and those we were indoctrinated to trust. If one was of the ruling class, one could not enact a finer system of control with which to infantilize a population for the purpose of ensuring hegemonic power.<br /><br />Looking past 9/11, we need only observe the present day to see nothing has fundamentally changed in the ensuing twenty years. Americans collectively remain incapable of admitting they have been duped. For doing so would require an acceptance of truth now beyond programmed reality. One can only hope the stupor of society will one day be shed.<br /><br />As the cartoon character Pogo said so many years ago, "We have met the enemy and he is us."<br /><br />AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com