Some claim we are becoming zombiesque.
The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli.
-- Wikipedia on 'zombie'
So much of what takes place as democracy and representative government is corporate marketing and financial sector public relations. There's a need for resurrected transformation of what we like to call the American Character. We're against manipulation, slavery, intolerance, and inequality. This message will unsettle the current powers that run this country. It's time for the change.
All conventional forms of dissent, from electoral politics to open debates, have been denied us. We cannot rely on the institutions that once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible. The only route left is to disconnect as thoroughly as possible from the consumer society and engage in acts of civil disobedience and obstruction. The more we sever ourselves from the addictions of fossil fuel and the consumer society, the more we begin to create a new paradigm for community. The more we engage in physical acts of defiance—as Bill McKibben and others did recently in front of the White House to protest the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would increase the flow of “dirty” tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico—the more we can keep alive a new, better way of relating to each other and the ecosystem.
Most important, we must stop being afraid. We have to turn our backs for good on the Democrats, no matter what ghoulish candidate the Republicans offer up for president. We have to defy all formal systems of power. We have to listen closely to the moral voices in our society, from McKibben to Noam Chomsky to Wendell Berry to Ralph Nader, and ignore feckless liberals who have been one of the most effective tools of our disempowerment. We have to create monastic enclaves where we can retain and nurture the values being rapidly destroyed by the wider corporate culture and build the mechanisms of self-sufficiency that will allow us to survive. The corporate coup is over. We have lost. The trolls have won. We have to face our banishment.
-- from article by Chris Hedges, The Election March of the Trolls, August 29, 2011, published on Truthdig website
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_election_march_of_the_trolls_20110829/
The thing about coups is they tend to devour their own.
I'd prefer a more reasonable replacement of the few that have usurped power.
Not a revolution, but a more considered non-violent revolving door that lets out those who've destroyed the good will and lofty hopes of a disappointed populace.
A simplistic religious-right fascism will not, ultimately, please Americans. Listen up, political preacher candidates!
No, tomorrow we start dismantling hypocrisy and posturing.
Real kindness knows not bullshit. No more zombies! No more rote media transcriptions of zombie drivel.
Is there anyone left who remembers kindness, true words-into-actions, who will refuse bullshit?
Let's tell them that need telling what needs to be told!
It's nearly too late!
