Distracted Public Should Find Way Back

It is televisions most important night.  Who could care?

Although there are a handful of decent folks among the acting community, many are absorbed with self adulation, considering themselves above working America.  As we consider the influence the attempt to place over the adoring public, we can look no further than their blindful slobbering love affair with our president.

Sheltered from the dreadful realities of the current economic status of our nation and oblivious to the restrictions in freedom actively being placed on the citizenry, the acting community plays a role in the promotion of the ruling class in through propaganda.  The low information voting block are those who can be influenced by those who they see as the Hollywood elite, those of fame and fortune.

This is why President Obama has sought the utilization of Hollywood, the National Baseketball Association and the National Football League in efforts to promote Obamacare, gun control and Common Core.  The objective is to feed the consumers propaganda on these issues where the degree of difficulty for the average citizen to decipher the real story exponentially grows.

Please see the following which Aldous Huxley wrote in Brave New World Revisited:

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in their calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.”

There certainly is nothing wrong with enjoying the entertainment options available, and like most everyone else, I have my favorites. It is football season.

But our country is in peril, and it is time that along with consuming your favorite hobbies and guilty pleasures, time must be allocated to understand, as Huxley said, the encroachment on your liberty by those who wish to manipulate and control it.

A storm is coming, It is time to fix our seat on the foundations and principles we hold true; our port in the storm. Hear that voice again. Find your way back to what is dear to you; your friends, family and loved ones; and your country.

Find your way back!

From the Jefferson Starship, featuring Mickey Thomas, 1981 album Modern Times, enjoy Find Your Way Back!