America could very well be the very last nation to experience major uprising and rebellion. The reason we as a nation will not resort to revolution is because we are so terribly well adjusted to our society. Unfortunately our society may be in fact, insane.
Aldous Huxley had this to say in Brave New World Revisited;
"The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal."
The noted philosopher-psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Fromm : "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as neurotics do."
So then, if we are so crazy, how come we can manage three wars, survive a devastating financial crises and have next to zero, civil disturbance?
This is because our totally sane, top-notch second-raters, who are charged with nudging along the ship-of-state have learned two lessions in the past half century. These may be the only things learned, but they have served well. These master-minds of the national inertia we call progress determined there was to be no repeat of the sixties. i.e.
Firstly: Never under any circumstances risk repeating the chaotic sixties by re-instituting the military draft. Even if this requires recycling and rehabilitating one single, albeit well-armed, regiment, forever. What Nixon (blessed be) wisely took from us; let no Selective Service System reinstall.
Secondly: Never promise any minority group anything at all... ever. LBJ cost us several cities
nearly toasted, countless riots, and a decade of unrest because of empty promises never intended to be fulfilled. No more promises.
Aldous Huxley had this to say in Brave New World Revisited;
"The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal."
The noted philosopher-psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Fromm : "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as neurotics do."
So then, if we are so crazy, how come we can manage three wars, survive a devastating financial crises and have next to zero, civil disturbance?
This is because our totally sane, top-notch second-raters, who are charged with nudging along the ship-of-state have learned two lessions in the past half century. These may be the only things learned, but they have served well. These master-minds of the national inertia we call progress determined there was to be no repeat of the sixties. i.e.
Firstly: Never under any circumstances risk repeating the chaotic sixties by re-instituting the military draft. Even if this requires recycling and rehabilitating one single, albeit well-armed, regiment, forever. What Nixon (blessed be) wisely took from us; let no Selective Service System reinstall.
Secondly: Never promise any minority group anything at all... ever. LBJ cost us several cities
nearly toasted, countless riots, and a decade of unrest because of empty promises never intended to be fulfilled. No more promises.
Thirdly: Ignore totally Jefferson's plea, "No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one will ever be." Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792. Strive always to keep the Major Media in as few Corporate hands as possible. Insure that a free press remain an archaic remnant never to been seen here again.
With these major impediments to tranquility removed from the national scene, rest assured the streets will remain serene. All will be well. Ours is a well trained constituency who have responded faithfully to suggestions from our leading media to behave well and consume nicely. And so we shall. We have no choice, for deviant behavior is anathema; is Un-American in fact.
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