Joe Bageant on "Hope"
vector: Albert K. Bates
link: http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/03/hope-is-for.html
snippet: I am convinced we all have to find our own way, and find it alone, most likely at great cost -- that great cost being the loss of all that we thought we knew about the world. I am coming to understand that as Americans, we were born into a powerfully induced mass illusion. An infantile consciousness of "I-want-I want," which drives the machinery of war, waste and profits, and which colonizes our minds and souls from birth like a progressive disease. I say "coming to understand," because, as an American I can never truly understand. My consciousness and neurosystem are far too mutated to ever understand. But I find great relief in the effort.
You can read a transcript of my C-Realm interview with Joe Bageant here: http://c-realm.blogspot.com/2009/09/joe-bageant-stockholm-syndrome-of-soul.html
link: http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/03/hope-is-for.html
snippet: I am convinced we all have to find our own way, and find it alone, most likely at great cost -- that great cost being the loss of all that we thought we knew about the world. I am coming to understand that as Americans, we were born into a powerfully induced mass illusion. An infantile consciousness of "I-want-I want," which drives the machinery of war, waste and profits, and which colonizes our minds and souls from birth like a progressive disease. I say "coming to understand," because, as an American I can never truly understand. My consciousness and neurosystem are far too mutated to ever understand. But I find great relief in the effort.
You can read a transcript of my C-Realm interview with Joe Bageant here: http://c-realm.blogspot.com/2009/09/joe-bageant-stockholm-syndrome-of-soul.html