There's no one the Christian Right hates more than other
Christians challenging them on Biblical grounds. They become apoplectic.
Mormons and Catholics are fine, anti-Sacralists, we have to be silenced.
Fools that they are, they don't realise that in pursuing
these policies for decades they have created social polarity and generated
government structures that in the end will come crashing down upon them.
Meanwhile the police are arresting people for Facebook posts.
While we cannot agree with the content of what people are
posting, the social implications of this move are more than a little troubling.
There's a bad precedent here that's being ignored by the mainstream. On a
similar note the mainstream has paid little attention to the massive shift in
law enforcement that took place in Dallas. While indeed the Dallas shooter
needed to be stopped, robots wielding bombs is something new.
But what's more... it was siege situation. He was cornered
and his movements restricted. The conflict had moved to the point of
negotiation. To decide to employ hi-tech deadly force at that point was an
interesting move to say the least. What's the next chapter of this story?
Meanwhile thousands of buffoons chase graphics imposed on a
video screen, allowing the Corporatocracy to data mine everything about their
lives.
Alvin Toffler the author of 'Future Shock' recently died...
could he or his readers in 1970 have even begun to fathom the state of our
society today? The Internet has changed the world but a friend of mine recently
argued the Smartphone is perhaps even more revolutionary. Certainly in terms of
technology they go together, but the Smartphone has in just one decade
completely and radically changed our society. Anyone getting out of prison
feels this most acutely. Or in my case... those who have refused to go along
and sit back and watch. It is nothing less than stunning. I refuse to get one
and yet I also know that before long it will mean I will not have access to
some of the basic structures of society.
In the UK, another Conservative PM pledges compassion for the
masses in something of a repeat of Thatcher's 1979 bizarre if not twisted appeal
to Francis of Assisi as she prepared to make war on the UK's middle and working
classes. What will the May administration hold for the United Kingdom? My guess
would be austerity and more of the security state. She has a long record in
this regard.
And of course just as France was ready to lift the state of
emergency, the brutal attack in Nice, along with the attempted coup in Turkey,
has all but ensured an increase in power for the military-intelligence
apparatus.
And as all these things take place the US mainstream media
continues to focus on rubbish, entertainment and the latest analysis of Donald
Trump or deflated footballs.
Someone suggested that I left out the heart of the dystopic moment... the trajectory toward race war and the reality of routine mass shootings.
ReplyDeleteVery true, however these things have been part of America's history from the beginning. America has a long history of racism and violence. That's basic to what America is.
That said, as these things worsen, they will contribute to the general social turmoil and create a cloud of chaotic fear. I guess the reason I didn't immediately include race and violence is due to the fact that these things have actually been worse in the past. The 1960s and 1970s were much more volatile and violent than today.
That said, there are indications we are once more moving toward such period.