Always Preposterous 2/2

What powers it all? Our basic beliefs, conditioned into us from cradle to grave, propaganda and indoctrination from our social gatekeepers, our institutions and their leaders, secular and religious. And regardless of their denials, both are political in the extreme. The whole purpose is to keep the ruling class, the rich and powerful in control, to keep us (the “rabble”) codified, cowed (if not content) in our spiritual and material impoverishment. And millions have died, and continue to die to perpetuate the charade.

I read this in one of Christopher Hitchens’s books; it certainly applies here:

“…Whenever you hear that people have begun killing noncombatants intentionally and indiscriminately, ask yourself what dogma stands at their backs. What do these freshly minted killers believe? You will find that it is always — always — preposterous. …”

Thanks to the Snowden and Manning leaks we now know (as had been long suspected) that our own government does, and has, intentionally targeted and killed noncombatants. And they do it in our name. This inexcusable paradigm persists because we turn a blind eye to it, perhaps for fear that we might be the next noncombatants targeted. So what outrageous, preposterous dogma do they and we mutually believe that permits this murder and exploitation to continue. We’d better really think hard about it because we’re all complicit if we don’t try to understand and change it. It is definitely well past time for a new paradigm.

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–LE