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We need to always be sceptical of the elite, but we also need to recognize that they can deliver truth sometimes. Their analysis may be true, and even the institutions they create–though pursuing a long term evil agenda–can still be staffed by many good people and accomplish good along the way. We need to listen sceptically, but listen with open minds to see what info we can glean.

Webster Tarpley has been on Alex Jones’s show lateley damning Obama. That’s fine. But some of his arguments are reactionary and don’t do justice to the validity of Obama’s statements.

In an article titled “Obama The Dummy - Brzezinski The Ventriloquist” Tarpley quotes Obama saying, “”We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama said. “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added. If India and China’s “carbon footprint gets as big as ours, we’re gone.” (AFP) Tarpley responds with, “This remarkable statement reveals the true program of a future Obama administration: savage austerity, brutal economic sacrifice, and a massive further reduction in the standard of living of the depleted and exhausted US population ­ as demanded by David Rockefeller, George Soros, and Obama’s Wall Street backers.”

Obama’s statement does support the view of the eugenicist elite, but it is also true. Look at American obesity rates, our oil consumption and water usage rates. They’re obscene. We are terribly wasteful and destructive while most of the world lives on $1 a day. That’s criminal, we do need to change our behavior. Eating factory farmed beef burger 1/3 pounders from McDonalds four days a week is wrong. Living in air-conditioned pods, shuttling from home to SUV to work to SUV to home is wrong. And yes, some austerity is in order. And, in different circumstances, proposed by different people, I think Tarpley would support some of Obama’s ideas. Talk to survivalists, true environmentalists, or people with real spiritiual insight and I think you’d hear them say that some level of austerity is good for the individual soul and the community’s health. Americans need to consume less and we need to stop believing we’re some privlidged, chosen members of the planet that get to do whatever the fuck we want while most of the world starves simply because we were born here. Because that’s elitism.

Anyway, here’s a good analysis of the US a-political scene by someone who is paid to manipulate it. The world is complex, humanity is complex, and my model of reality is constantly changing, trying to factor in the truly incredible level of control that the global elites exercise with the general bumbling of work-a-day Amerikans. We are dumbed down through public education, through chemicals in our food and water, and through mass media. The dumber the herd, the larger its size, the easier it is to predict and control. The world is not perfectly predictable, the people not perfectly controllable, but ordo ab chao.

via: Joe Bageant

Every now and then I am fortunate enough to communicate with someone who has near complete insight into our political process, why things happen and where it seems likely to be headed. Recently I received this analysis from a high powered political consultant whose name is withheld for obvious reasons. He/she has to live and work in the political world and for either party. In any case, I found it breathtaking in its fundamental analysis and its clarity — clarity being no easy thing to accomplish in the swamp of media-consumerism-politics. Here it is: – Joe Bageant

By an anonymous political consultant

Much has been written by political pundits in their attempt to explain the unexpected victory of Senator Barack Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton in this year’s Democratic Presidential Primary. When looking at the results of this race, none of the conventional political math that would help one handicap the outcome would make one conclude that Senator Obama would win this contest.

Inside a Democratic Party primary there is no demographic or political reason that a male first term African American senator from Illinois with an unorthodox name should come any where close to beating a white female senator, who happens to be the wife of the last Democratic President whose approval ratings are still above 70% with Democratic voters and who also happened to earn the endorsements of the substantial parts of the Democratic Party establishment.

The conventional analysis focused on the poor quality of the campaign run by Senator Clinton, her vote in support of the Iraq war and her advocacy of the cynical center-right triangulation policies of her husband, which soured her campaign to many primary voters and especially to Democratic Party activists. Senator Obama’s on the other hand was credited with running an innovative and inspiring campaign that excited primary voters and brought many new and especially younger voters into the electoral process.

There is some truth to this analysis, but as a whole it misses the underlying social change in society that had already laid the groundwork for a possible Obama victory. To get a clearer understanding of the results, we must better understand what this social change is and how its impact is far more significant than the dynamics of the two respective campaigns.

The underlying social change that led to the Obama victory is the unprecedented extent to which the narrative of popular consumer culture, and the media that drives it, has become the dominant influence on how Americans think, formulate their ideas and understand the world around them.

The most important result of this process has been the steady and consistent depoliticization of American society, to an extent that we can make the case that we are living at the dawn of the post political age.

The two primary features of the post political age are a politics completely drained of all its contents and ability or willingness to be used as an agent of change in social or economic policy, and its full integrations into the world of American popular, consumer and entertainment culture. To such an extent that there exists today a seamless web between our political, economic, media and consumer cultures wherein the modes and values of one are completely integrated and compatible with the others.

It should not come as a surprise that the dominant ideas and mores of popular culture have become the dominant ideas of our society. Popular culture is the breaker of customs, prejudice, tradition and relevant historical knowledge. Continue Reading »