Are Americans a Broken People?
Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression – Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?
Looks that way…
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December 17th, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Every generation has to learn the one fundamental truth for itself. It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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December 17th, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I reckon we are about as broke as we can get!
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December 17th, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Great article.
I don't think we can turn back the overwhelming tide except on an individual basis. We can fight back by refusing to eat their poisonous commercial food, getting our bodies in shape, staying as healthy as we possibly can, refusing to buy items we don't need, turning off or tossing out the telly, learning to deal with self-destructive stress and anger, finding a couple of people we trust and can confide in, managing our finances, treating others as we wish to be treated, and most of all learning new skills.
Nothing brings a person out of a state of passivity or depression like learning how to do some things for themselves. Don't wait for society, the government, corporations, schools, or religions to change, and don't even take to the streets to demand that they change, because they aren't going to during your life time unless a critical mass decides to stop cooperating with their agenda and takes charge of their own lives and welfare. This will only happen one person at a time and doesn't require violence.
I suggest we each stop wasting vital energy on anger toward the government and corporations and use it instead to learn how to manage our own lives with as little dependence on them as possible. They will shrivel up and maybe not die, but they will shrink to a quite manageable size. And we will be healthy, happy, and free long before that happens.
BTW, "passive" is not a bad word when followed by the word "resistance".
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December 17th, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Greetings. don't know if they are broken. but I do know that they are no longer even marginally moral. we now have our own concentration camps and legally torture prisoners that are not even accused of having committed a crime in our nation. we now allow things to be done that we had fought wars against in the past. To me it is beyond broken, because broken things can be fixed. we have lost the right to be right. we are now simply new members of the animals that we used to look down on. subhumanoids. I don't see fixing as possible for the country any longer, we are past that. About like Rome when it went under. just another failed chapter in history, but we only lasted a fraction of how long Rome lasted before becoming morally bankrupt. we were better at it I guess.
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December 17th, 2009 at 10:52 PM
I SAY SOME ARE BROKEN,SOME ARE SCARED,SOME ARE JUST TO LAZY TO WORK,SOME ARE MAD AT THE GOVERNMENT,SOME JUST DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT A THING,SOME DO CARE ABOUT THIS GREAT COUNTRY BUT CANT GET A BREAK.IF THIS COUNTRY SURVIVES OBAMAS CRAPPY ADMINISTRATION AND CRAZY IDEAS THIS COUNTRY CAN BOUNCE BACK,THATS MY PRAYER ANYWAY.LETS JUST PRAY THAT GOD BLESSES THIS GREAT COUNTRY ONCE AGAIN.FROM JAY IN NC
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December 18th, 2009 at 4:53 AM
God,Guns,and Guts got us this far and will keep me going ahead. Not having the will to save ourselves? I never knew I lost it.
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December 18th, 2009 at 8:31 AM
as a nation we are demoralized, for now. it's true. we have been de-Moralized by those who have promoted the idea: "don't impose your morality on me". (as though morals were a subjective and indivigual thing) it pretty much sounds like the same type of people who wrote the article. (but, left versus right is a false dichotomy) i hope there's more folks out there like Mechanic in Illinois who haven't lost "it".
the catastrophe seems inevitible now. how much personal energy can someone put into stopping it? it seems like we need to put most of our energies into regaining control over our own lives, and liberty in the aftermath.
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December 18th, 2009 at 10:17 AM
You asked- "Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?"
Yes, the abundant main stream media has changed what we call 'normal' to the point that the kids today think this is how things are and have ALWAYS been.
What we have today is 'normal'.
There is no sense of loss if everything is still 'normal'.
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December 18th, 2009 at 11:22 AM
ANON says:
"Greetings. don't know if they are broken. but I do know that they are no longer even marginally moral. we now have our own concentration camps and legally torture prisoners that are not even accused of having committed a crime in our nation."
Whatever are you talking about? Gitmo? Sound like you are spouting a load of Liberal BS to me. Not commuting crimes? What are you talking about, they are waging war against us?
THREE prisoners were waterboarded. THREE!
There are no "torture camps", at least not yet.
The Patriot Act? when as it been applied to an American citizen on this soil who was not a hostile non-combatant on foreign soul? Surely you do not believe all the ridiculous propaganda on left wing TV shows where people are threaten with the Patriot Act? You are just regurgitating lefty taking points. It is all just anti-American propaganda. If you refer to something else than gitmo, it is most likely a figment of your imagination.
What are you, a left wing survivalist?
"Fighting back"? Well look at the tea party movement. Look at th 9/12 march in DC.
Perhaps it is you people that are broken. You do not want to do the hard ground-level political work. Join a tea party. Do something at the grass roots political level. Stop jaw-boning and get out there a jion the rest of us fighting these vipers.
Survivalist prep? Well, all well and good, and perhaps the self-reliance of it is more important the the "survivalist" dystopian fantasy, but you will not survive long if there is either a real and hard fascist coup, a gradual soft fascist shift, or a complete collapse into local warlordism. At best you are buying yourself a year. Nothing wrong with that, but do not inagine that you are building anything but a very short term solution. Some sort of power will roll over the hill soon enough. The history of man points to mush more difficult outcomes. Each one of these alternatives will be brutal and no cache of small arrm, and no small "robust community" will save you or yours from the onslaught. We are all stuck in our society and civilization. There is no avoiding it.
Perhaps it is you people that are broken. You do not want to undertake the hard political work to stand up to these jerks.
It is not "government" per se, and most certainly not "corporations" that are the problem (what a bizarre bit of left wing-agitprop that "corporations are evil" BS is), It is the hard left and their "march through the institutions" and their perversion of our culture and civilization that are the problems. They have to be fought and fought in their faces. They have to be fought at the local school board, and the local political level, at the state and regional level, at the national level and even at the international level. It will not be easy and the solutions will require compromise and thus not be perfect.
It will not do to just bury your head in the sand and wait it out in some survivalist redoubt. Take a stand, fight the openly in the political arena. Old women in the Tea Party movement are brave enough to do it. What about you?
THIS is cowardly; THIS is "broken"
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December 18th, 2009 at 4:02 PM
i wouldn't say that we are broken. i believe that the majority of us so far have been to comfortible to be awakened….but "times are a changin" my friend. i would have to say that if mammy obammy and the dems are put in check soon, we will have to do it ourselves, and i believe that more and more people are realizing that everyday. stock up on the ammo, we just may need it soon.
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December 18th, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I don't think we are a broken people. I know too many that feel the way we do and take steps to ensure our survial and prosperity. However I believe that we are an apathetic people. People, for the most part, just don't care. They still believe that the government will protect them, provide for them, and has there best inerest at heart. These folks will not see the truth and don't care what the government does to them. It is unfortunate that by the time people figure out what is happening and begin to care it will be to late.
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December 19th, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Bezmenov was right.
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