The American Dream is to Stay in your Homes
TV Reviews
The American Dream is to Stay in your Homes
By Gil James Bavel
Nov. 1, 2008
I've just unmuted the TV that's showing a John McCain Rally in Perkasie, Pa. At the moment I happened to hit the button, Senator McCain said, "The American Dream is to Stay in your Homes". Of course, he was talking about the mortgage crisis, and that home ownership is the American dream for all of us.
But when he said it, I was reminded today, the day after Halloween, of all those zombie and biological disaster flicks I've seen in which the government advises us "To stay in your homes". I envisioned army trucks with their megaphones rolling around, blaring "Stay in your homes. Curfew is maintained by lethal force".
But maybe the subtext here is a little closer to the truth. Perhaps we're easier to manage in our homes, with the flickering boob tube giving us our marching orders, than in the FEMA camps or the tent cities, like the one that has sprung up in Las Vegas.
Aren't we easier to control when we pay for our own programming, when we spoon-feed ourselves whatever it is that Big Media wants us to think bleats at us from every channel? When we pay for our own hypnotism from DirecTV, DishNetwork, and 500 channels of cable, all controlled by maybe three corporations-it's just different flavors of the same information.
So, maybe it was just dumb luck that I hit the button and heard the good Senator say that. Maybe it was coincidence. But it sure sounded to me like more programming-when after that line, the scores or maybe even hundreds of people at the rally there in Perkasie cheered like crazed baboons in a zoo-it really did sound like subliminal code. That they want us to stay in our homes, believing that that is the American dream.
Don't go outside, don't mingle with other people, don't gather, and don't think. Above all, don't promote the right of freely exchanged ideas. Because that leads to anti-establishmentism. That leads to vocal support of movements, even action, and action is the greatest threat to the status quo. Don't rock the boat, just go along to get along, and listen to what we tell you-don't discuss in, not even in your own head-the ultimate condensation of your own home. If a man's home is his castle, his head is his throne. His mind is his inner sanctum. And that's ultimately where they want us to stay, locked up in the prison of our own heads, living lives of quiet desperation, dulled up on Zoloft and Wellbutrin, Paxil and Prozac. So that even our inner sanctum doesn't need guards. We'll be drooling zombies, sitting on our own thrones.
The more Orwellian the drivel coming out of the media and ultimately, from the government is, the more they count on us not having read Orwell. Or anything, at all.
And while it might be easier for them to gas us in mobs with an airborne agent while we're all at the ball game, or in a convention center during the latest natural disaster, or even in those tent cities and FEMA camps-isn't it easier to keep us in our homes? Let us pay for our own programming! Let us pay for our own surveillance. They'll keep transmitting, and as they do, they'll continue to reinforce the idea that the latest DSP surround sound gizmo is the coolest, and we'll go out and buy it. All the better to program us with. Keep telling us what to think, what to buy, and how cool it is, and we'll march in lockstep right down to Radio Shack to spend our progressively devalued dollars to go pick it up. We'll get into our nifty-neato-cool sport utility vehicle-which we'd never dream of taking offroad-might scratch the paint!-off to Best Buy, to get the newest, shiny, glittering HDTV-chocolate or vanilla? 72-inch screen, or 60?
Because, after all-when the time comes for the police to strap on that state-of-the-art riot gear they've been buying, when they finally do decide to bring the hammer down-all they'd really have to do is tell us what they've been telling us all along-"Stay in your homes". All they'd have to do is introduce something into the water supply-that's all-and we'd all fall down.
Remember that gas they sprayed into the theater that had been taken over by "terrorists" in Russia a few years ago? On the news, they said it was a kind of aerosolized Valium-diazepam to be specific. Well, it wasn't. It was Fentanyl; one of the most powerful opioids with a potency 81 times that of morphine. The lethal dose for humans is not well known-so when you put it through the ventilation system of a theater-some people are just gonna die. Some people-junkies, for instance-there's irony for you-might have a tolerance. Or those that take Mother's Little Helper on a regular enough basis. But the point is, whether there were terrorists in there or not-they ran a successful field test of how well their delivery system worked. And it made the news. Because they wanted it to.
So, if the government, in whichever flavor we "choose", decides that we're getting too unruly, or that there are just too damned many of us-whether it's because the ratio of us to them is getting too big, or for another, more dastardly reason-all they have to do is keep us thinking of the American dream, that the safest place is in our homes-where they have us all marked, numbered, slotted and filed-and slip some Fentanyl into the water. Then, we will all just drift off into that good night. Why make a mess? Why bother with monkeypox, or Influenza, or the latest strain of Anthrax? Why even bother making all that Sarin? Too messy. Big Pharma can be counted on for at least one BIG favor. After letting them run rampant and unregulated for this long, not having to spend a single dime on a cure for cancer, no, not when there's so much money to be made in the cancer industry-sure, they'll whip up a big 'ol batch of whatever the government wants. Hell, they've got water purification in their homes. Everybody in the elite does. Who drinks tap water, these days, that's in the know? They sure don't.
They're part of the plan; they know what the possibilities are.
No, when the control grid gets too ineffective for a proper crackdown, when the drills and terrorist scares no longer work, when the false flags simply fail to make us fear them anymore-that's when they'll launch Operation American Dream. So, in the end, our own fear may still be our evolutionary best friend.
But most of us are way too complacent for that. We suck down the beer, along with their lies, their bold, naked bullshit, and it goes down smooth. Now, instead of being righteously indignant when we see the government trying to pass off something like the Patriot Act as real law for our protection, when we see them invoking executive privilege to cover their asses-for those that aren't even in the executive branch-now, we just chuckle, pop another Bud and think, "Oh, that's our crazy government again" and go back to sleep. More Fentanyl. More Paxil. More Melamine.
The next war, they will unilaterally begin, again, with no act of Congress, without permission, without representation. Our government has gotten too big and has thrown checks and balances out the window. They know that there's nothing we can do about it, and if we get too uppity about challenging them with our words, they'll just shut down the free web. The government invented the Internet. Strong enough to survive a nuclear exchange. You bet that they have "the big switch" at AARPANET headquarters.
Why do you think all the .gov and .mil websites have moved to Internet 2? They can shut us off anytime. Google now works out of an old NASA research facility. They complied with China to block whatever their communist government wants. They work hand-in-hand with our government to make sure that we get only the information that we're supposed to.
And if we go outside those boundaries, we'll be shepherded back in, with the rest of the herd. Why put down a healthy horse, when you can break his leg? That's why it's the American Dream to Stay in your Homes. As Senator McCain would say, "My Fellow Prisoners", the only thing to fear is when we lose our fear. When that happens, when we are all truly on a peer-to-peer level with those that have been entrusted to be our representatives, and the word gets out, they will do whatever it takes to keep us under control. Don't think for a second that they won't. They must hang on to their precious power control grid. If they feel it slipping away, all it takes is one phone call, one text message, hell, one single letter, a digit. A cryptic classified ad in the national edition of the New York Times. A code word slipped in to a press conference, hastily called and sure to grab everybody's attention.
It might be as simple as just running a catchphrase on the newscrawl on CNN. And that quick, the American Dream will be over.