Chris Hedges

[hardblue]

“The election of Obama was one more triumph of illusion over substance. It was a skillful manipulation and betrayal of the public by a corporate power elite. We mistook style and ethnicity - an advertising tactic pioneered by Calvin Klein and Benetton - for progressive politics and genuine change.”

-- Chris Hedges, “Death of the Liberal Class”I

Comments

yes!!

[pigshitpoet]

the obama deception. some called it going in. the bs factor for me was a first black president thrown to the bone of a disgruntled black population who later got locked up in fema camps 2.5 million black men in prison in america today. and the bullshit speech about mlk by obama been lyin' after which he kills the postulate bin laden without trace of a body, that was apparently thrown in the ocean so as not to contaminate any land species. what a fucking sci-fi mystery...

is he even black, at all? or did somebody just paint his skin with makeup like in the old italian westerns with white actors portraying indians?

i can't say enough about this. oh yes, and death to america! what the fuck is that, kemo sabi?

Re: yes!!

[maadmike]

"is he even black, at all? or did somebody just paint his skin with makeup like in the old italian westerns with white actors portraying indians?"

;))))))

Cool music anyway!

RE: Re: yes!!

[pigshitpoet]

the video interview with chris hedges is really good

[pigshitpoet]

thanks incredibly much for this post.

"Things happen all the time and some of us know it" - Jack Kerouac

[hardblue]

Then you should really enjoyed the YouTube video that is linked. I have at least one more quotation from it that I want to post.

[pigshitpoet]

i saw that now. good talk

[maadmike]

The election of any kind is a pure illusion itself...

[hardblue]

Sometimes I kind of feel that all of life is an illusion.

[maadmike]

It is the way of Buddha view on a man's life you are talking about- you are on a good path! Don't turn away from it! ;)

[brother_dour]

In Obama's defense, it's hard to have a baseball game when one whole team won't even take the field.