Yeah, I know, technically the decade ended last year at the end of 2009, but isn't it nice to end with a nice round number? Also, as far as relevancy to our everyday life, I would say that 2001 was a game changer... we had a new president, it ends with the number "1", and that other... thing. I think for all these reasons above, for all intents and purposes, we can call 2000 the end of the 90's and 2010 as the end of whatever the fuck you would call this abortion of a decade.
I haven't weighed in on things in quite a while and to be honest, it was just because I was absolutely sick of it all. After the 2008 elections, I found it difficult to care anymore. I had put so much time and effort into hoping that the world would become a better place under new leadership that I thought that I deserved a break.
I was wrong.
Today, with the collusion of the mass media markets becoming ever more evident, no actions prove that we are being told what "THEY" want us to be told than the witch hunt being conducted against Wikileaks on behalf of the Obama/Bush crime family. It's not completely without surprise that the government finds it necessary to protect state secrets; I mean, we're not totally gullible are we? We know that our government does things to protect interests that we would rather not know about and that they would rather not have us know about. However, what I find most distasteful is the lack of support for Wikileaks head, Julian Assange in the corporate media. With the destruction of all newspapers that don't fall under the "Tribune" or "Newscorp" umbrella, independent media is a thing of the past. Television news used to give us some hard hitting stories from gritty reporters that would take chances and hunt a story to get to the truth. Now, we get Katie Couric and Brian Williams "sticking it" to politicians that we already know are full of shit, and that is the most notable thing they are doing, you betcha.
I've spoken about the media conglomeration that owns the spread of information in this country before, but as I said, at no time has the depth of corruption, complicity and general laziness been more evident than now. Wikileaks is a media organization that is unearthing unprecedented amounts of government (not just US) coverups and lies, and what is the response they get from their media bretheren? Jeers. And cheers for the prosecution and railroad job that Assange is sure to get now that he is in police custody. It's almost as though they are no longer attempting to hide their allegiance with corporate government or attempting to act like they have any journalistic integrity. I realize that the information that Wikileaks is releasing spawns a bit of a political hulabaloo, but ignore that for a moment. The sole job of the media is to get the facts and report them. It is not their job to keep state secrets. That is the government's job. If the mainstream media do not applaud and astound at the dirt that Wikileaks is uncovering on its journalistic merit alone, it is painfully obvious that we have reached an incredible low point in this country with the information that we receive, and we can see the media giants for what they are.
And of course, the duality of man sorts out the rest. Just like "they" have pitted us against one another with two men of the same cloth (dems. vs. republicans, bush vs. obama), they pit us against one another with a fake representation of both sides in the media (fox news vs. msnbc). They're both a piece of shit. When was the last time you really got some hard hitting news from one of these sources? Usually, what you get is some jerkoff's opinion in an overhanded (or sometimes latent) fashion because he is able to convince you that he knows how to feel about a situation more than you do. This is demonstrable time and time again.
Back to my original point.
So far this decade, we have seen the curtailing of the first amendment with so called "free speech zones". You can't protest inside a public building (why call it "public" then?), but perhaps much more damaging is the cooling effect that certain "hot topics" have had on the way that we communicate and view each other.
Allow me a slight interlude to play you a clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czoww2l1xdw
Ok, now that we are all shitting our pants looking around to see which one of each other are terrorists, let's talk about the motivations and effect of something like this.
GET SCARED. You're easier to control when you're scared. Stop being so fucking brave. Well, except you poor motherfuckers that serve in the military, be brave and go die. But the rest of you... be very scaaaaared. The powers that be are determined to make 21st century America a place where we have to look over our shoulder for invisible and nonexistent boogeymen that are going to come and "rape errbody".
From my perspective, there are two examples of infractions that are overreported, overstated and saturate the market in the interest of getting you scared and justification for greater infringements on your civil liberties in the name of "safety" and "security". These would be terrorism and pedophilia. We've already talked about terrorists, so let's talk about the pedos.
Now, I know; no one wants to defend a pedophile, and I'm not going to. But I think it's important to talk about what is going on with pedophiles, faux pedophiles and the way that we view them.
First and foremost; Fuck pedophiles. Perhaps a poor choice of words, but I have no love lost for someone who abuses a child. But it's important to remember that these are the people we are talking about when we are talking about pedophiles. We're not talking about the perfectly natural inclination that every man in the history of mankind has to want to fuck 17 year old women. The lines have been so twisted and confused in recent years with different enforcement of different crimes that we have lost all semblence of sanity regarding this issue. It's really a funny issue because at the heart of all of these so called "statutory rape" cases are some deep cross-societal psychological issues that the therapist keeps telling us we need to deal with, but just keep ignoring.
1.) Middle-aged ugly-ass housewives don't want their husbands fucking 17 year old girls. (jealousy)
2.) Dads don't want to acknowledge that their daughters are growing up and are sexual beings. (denial)
3.) The guys that AREN'T fucking 17 year olds, are jealous of the guys that do. (jealousy, again)
Well, we're a mighty jealous culture, that's for sure. I mean, don't get me wrong... I'm not saying that I wouldn't fuck a 17 year old, but it's not my cup of tea. Call me a fag, but I need to have some sort of mental connection and I just don't think I would get that from someone who wasn't alive when Super Mario World came out. But I digress...
I bet crazy gary's mobile disco is a kickass time.
Anyway, long story long, my point is that these things, terrorism and pedophilia evoke such a visceral reaction from us that we will do anything to avoid them or not enable them that it gives the government a lot of latitude to what is carried out in its name. They're giving us a fucking hernia check at the airport for Christ's sake.
If we're not careful and add some balance into our lives and realize that the giant pedophilic terrorism monster is NOT going to come and get us, then we are liable to turn our entire lives and liberty over to a bloated government that only cares about one thing:
"Get fucking scared, you putrid little citizen"
