[THS] !!!!! Bill Noxid: Anatomy of American Ignorance

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Anatomy of American Ignorance

By Bill Noxid

August 18, 2009 "Information Clearing House" ---  It’s a full time occupation trying to
unravel the reasons Americans remain in the dark.  What seems (to any intelligent
outside observer) like sheer stupidity and arrogance is in reality an almost
inescapable indoctrination process that begins before you are born, and ends some
time after your dead.  It is a system so complex and all encompassing that few can
recognize any reality outside of it at all, and that of course is its intended purpose.

The astonishing amount of rage demonstrated during the course of this fallacious
healthcare debate has exposed a great many unfortunate realities about the United
States.  This country’s inherent ability to avoid the truth about its own origins and
behaviors has become increasingly apparent during the first six months of this
presidency, and (as a result of the continued collective denial) there’s no chance of
it ending any time soon.

It’s generally not hard to find examples of the totality of mind control in this country,
but last week produced a couple of rare examples. Arlen Specter’s Town Hall meeting
was evidently an important “test case” for the organizers of disingenuous dissent,
and we got to see a variety of the false arguments.  Just look at the two most obvious
incidents.

First there was Craig Miller.  Aside from the hypocrisy of the fact that in eight years of
Bush, I don’t recall one “protester” causing that kind of disruption, wagging their
finger in the face of a senator, calling down the wrath of God on him, while the
police stand around and wait for him to run out of breath - but the really astonishing
event was the interview the next morning.  Truly, it must be seen to be believed.  In
eight minutes of interview, the man could not produce a single, solitary, intelligible
reason for his rage.  It was so embarrassing, that he eventually had to refer to his
crib notes just to eek out some nonsensical fear of Czars, before Dylan had to
mercifully end the non-conversation.

However the textbook example of why people in this country have no concept of
reality was delivered by Specter’s other heckler, Katy Abram.  Certainly you all
remember her
  She was the one who announced that the “sleeping giant had
awakened.”

“I don’t believe this is just about healthcare, it’s not about TARP,  it’s not about left
and right, this is about the systematic dismantling of this country.  I’m only thirty-five
years old, I’ve never been interested in politics.  You have awakened the sleeping
giant.  We are tired of this.  This is why everybody in this room is so ticked off.  I
don’t want this country turning into Russia ­ turning into a socialized country.  My
question for you is what are you going to do to restore this country back to what our
founders created according to the constitution.”

First of all, what a meaningless statement and question that has no possible rational
answer ­ and only serves to give the people like Craig Miller something generic to
cheer for.  The all-encompassing, non-specific, return to the “glory days” of the
founding fathers.  This is the kind of reaction these “phrases” are supposed to elicit,
and that is what they are designed for.  Not that Katy herself came up with any of it
of course
  She is merely parroting whatever and whoever she is listening to.

Evidence of that reality became painfully obvious when she was interviewed the next
day by Laurence O’Donnell.  From the onset, she flashed her doe in the headlights
look ( that would be charming if this was a game show ), and proceeded to
demonstrate her lack of knowledge about virtually everything that has occurred ( in
this country and on this planet ) in the last ten years.

O’Donnell: “What made you want to go”

Abram: “Umm, just sheer frustration, umm, I see all these things being pushed
through very quickly, umm, TARP, this healthcare bill, umm, cash for clunkers, and
the frustrating thing to me is these programs are being funded by me, my friends,
my family, umm, we have a small business and the amount of taxes we pay out of
that is ridiculous. And yet they want us to pay more ­ I, or, it sounds like they want
us to pay more, so that, that is the root of my frustration.  This was the straw that
broke the camel’s back.”

O’Donnell: “In the plans discussed so far, the increase in taxation would occur only
on families with incomes of over $250,000.  Would that include you and your family?”

Abram: “Honestly it ( nervous laugh ), I’d rather, I’d rather not say
  I don’t even
know ( another nervous laugh ).  Umm, my husband takes care of the bills and
everything, I, you know, he takes care of us, and that’s all that matters, umm.”

Are you serious?  After that ridiculous rant about her, her husband, her friends, and
her family having to fund these programs ( like it’s the first time she’s seen a
government ), we find she has no idea how much her husband makes, how much
they pay in taxes, or even what tax bracket they are in?!?  The only thing ridiculous
about the amount of taxes “she” pays is that she doesn’t know the amount of taxes
“she” pays, and has the nerve to portend outrage about it.  Not to mention it is quite
a testament to the woman’s equality movement in this country ­ and particularly in
her household.

O’Donnell: “Do you and your family have health insurance?”

Abram: “Yeah we do have health insurance, umm, we have a heath savings account
that we pay for ourselves. We, we have a $5,000+ deductable, umm, that basically in
the course of a normal year we will pay for all of our medical out, our medical needs
out-of-pocket ­ doctors visits ­ and this year’s been a little more difficult cuz my son’s
had surgery and it looks like we’re looking for his, at a second one, umm, we’re
almost at our deductable so that’s a good thing ( chuckle ), but that was a choice
that we made, and that’s what we wanted to do.  Umm, and I want to be able to
keep that choice, I don’t want to be forced or slowly coaxed into a single payer
program
  I want to have my choice.”

Truly, it’s hard to believe how stupefied the people in this country are.  Certainly
that’s nothing new ( in fact it’s the crux of keeping these feeble minds enslaved ), but
look at the depth of her confusion.  Here we have a woman that after explaining that
( for all intents and purposes ) her family has no insurance, she claims to be afraid
that someone will take that “choice” away from her.  Her ( and her husband who
obviously made this ridiculous arrangement ) pay the entire cost of their healthcare
every year, plus whatever they pay to the insurance company that is laughing at
them, and they are afraid someone is going to forcibly take that choice away from
them?  Force them to what?  Not pay for Non-healthcare?

I’m fairly sure they have nothing to worry about.  I can’t imagine that in the good-ol’
USA, someone is going to deprive you of your right to be an idiot and get screwed
out of money you never see any return from ­ unless you “get lucky” and your child
has to undergo two major surgeries in a year.  These nitwits think they are defending
their “free choice as Americans,” when in reality they are defending the corporation’s
right to keep them poor, sick, and stupid - and forcing the rest of the populous to
have no choice either.

But even more distressing and telling about the lack of awareness in this country is
this next exchange, after explaining that her and her parents “don’t talk politics” (
Who would have ever guessed ).

O’Donnell:  “You said in your statement that you are thirty-five years old, and that
nothing has gotten you interested in politics before, and what’s interesting to me
about that is that means you ­ as an adult ­ lived through 9-11, lived through the
invasion of Afghanistan, the war in Afghanistan, the first chapter of what became two
wars in the middle east ­ including the Iraq war. You lived through all of that, and
were not ­ as you put it ­ “awakened” into an interest in politics.  How could those
things pass through your life like this and not spark any interest in politics prior to
Washington saying “we think we want to help out some people who can’t afford
health insurance the way you can.”  Why would this be the thing that wakes you up
after you were willing to just ignore politics as we went past 9-11, into Afghanistan,
into Iraq?”

Abram: “Sure, I, I always seemed to have faith in the government and honestly, I
didn’t really care ( laugh ).  Umm, I had other things going on ­ ya know, getting
married, having children ­ it just, it wasn’t a priority in my life, and, ya know I really
didn’t start even watching the news at all I think until maybe 1991 I guess it was,
when, umm, we first went to the Gulf War ­ I remember watching CNN with my dad
and watching the infra-red missiles going across that you could see, umm, and, I
think it, to me, I mean maybe I’m just not that smart, but you know, it seems like
we’ve kind of been at war for, since then, I mean - or maybe even before, I don’t
know - it just always seem like we’re having some kind of conflict so, that, you know,
whether, about wars ­ umm, I don’t know, that just seems common place now

Umm, I think everybody’s just so used to it.

What an atrociously callous and ignorant statement that surely could only come from
an American.  Ten years of genocidal crusader conquest for corporate profit, leaving
untold millions dead, dying, and diseased, and this woman has the temerity to say
“everyone is just used to it.”  If white phosphorous and depleted uranium weapons
were raining down on her family and her healthcare needs included raising a child
without any eyes, or scull, or arms, or legs as a result of the poisoned environment, I
suspect she might be a little less flippant and a little less “used to it.”  What this
country did in the last ten years, the whole world is going to have to deal with for the
next hundred, and people like this are unaware anything has happened at all.  This
pathetic culture and its inability and unwillingness to recognize the continuous crimes
committed against the lands and peoples of the world, is why people like this woman
can tra-la-la through life without a clue of the horrendous damage her ignorance
allows.

In part two, I’ll examine how Americans in general ( but these people in particular )
develop these false realities, and where they get their “information” from.


Bill Noxid http://billnoxid.wordpress.com/


Litany of Threats and Racist incidents - over healthcare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5USJoFPr4

The Obama Problem: Black, and Unaware of it
http://billnoxid.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/the-obama-problem-black-and-unaware-
of-it/

Specter's Heckler: Interview with the mindless
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsr0iGUDAPw

Anatomy of American Ignorance ( Youtube Interview )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpi7qro4y4g