The Slavery of Fear and Shame
“If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he’ll eat you last.”
~ President Ronald Reagan
Greetings my fellow Americans!
While I don’t ascribe to worshipping any politician, I’ve taken to hearkening back to the 1980s and one President Ronald Reagan, for examples of how we, at least temporarily, reversed course from the disintegrative spiral we were in during the 1970s. It was from that earlier decade that I have my first memories of being told by those in the government and media that America was primarily responsible for all of the major existential ills of earthly community life, including overpopulation, pollution, global cooling, discrimination, racism, sexism, colonialism, corporate greed, the poverty of countless others around the world, and so on and so forth.
And the solution? More global, national, state, and local government regulations over the private lives of American citizens, and more departments and bureaucracies to enforce these mandates and ensure fairness in the outcomes produced by individuals within groups deemed oppressed or left behind by the reckless disregard of the United States. The United Nations and its ilk have thrived within the industry of anti-Americanism, while taking the largest financial contributions to their worldwide utopian causes from their so-called biggest offender since taking on its current incarnation in the late 1940s. Those who had built their empires, kingdoms and other such dominions on the backs of others within their geo-political borders through fear and intimidation were given seats at the global table of kumbayas with equal power to decide how the money they were getting from the United States would be used to destroy the United States.
Meanwhile, via naïveté, malaise, and/or gradual brainwashing, more and more anti-American agents from abroad were allowed to infiltrate key areas of our infrastructure, education and media being two of the more notable, to set into motion the downward spiral of patriotism, morale and, frankly, our largely God-fearing culture which has culminated in a group of people largely sharing feelings of insecurity and shame in addition to a land mass. Prior to 1980 we had sources of news, but, except for radio, these were periodic and temporal in nature, and far fewer in number; yet because of the latter (and with the relative 24×7 streaming of broadcast radio) the seeds of fear and doubt about the integrity and validity of our nation were already being summarily planted (the advents of 24×7 cable news and social media enabled those seeds to fully blossom). And as more and more people reaping the economic rewards of victory in World War II sought a better life for their children, more families sent their offspring to university, not recognizing that the indoctrination into the evils of American privilege and prosperity was already well under way, especially at the so-called more prestigious of these institutions.
We had no right to be the greatest nation in human history, we were being told. We had slavery after all, deemed by today’s standards to be the most heinous and inhumane of treatments of one human by another possible. We dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, and we had no business being in Vietnam beating back the Chinese, to preserve a nation who did not want our help anyway. We have had countless news reports, and movies, highlighting the shamelessness and ruthlessness of the American troops to further these narratives for decades, after all. We also had trash-lined lakes, rivers and streams, oil-slicked oceans, tar-black smoke rising from factories, with crying Indians and cartoon owls reminding us that we were destroying the planet with our American ways. We had too much freedom, those in the so-called third world were suffering the consequences of our callous indifference, and we needed to feel guilty about this.
Once we had been conditioned to be ashamed of America on the world stage, we were then told that our very existence was in peril by any number of threats caused by our recklessness; our individual health, and that of our home planet, were in serious jeopardy, and only by surrendering even more freedom to those who know how to save us from ourselves may we survive these existential crises. Automobiles, trucks, airplanes, many types of food, exhaling carbon dioxide, farting cows being raised to provide bad types of food, manufacturing facilities, fuel to heat our homes, energy for electricity, lawnmowers, snowblowers, guns, and, more recently, breathing without a mask, getting too close together and in too large a number, and not shooting up with whatever is needed to survive—all are to be feared, and can only be overcome in ways the government tells you are possible.
We have been being scared and shamed into a nation of slaves in a psy-op that has been going on for at least 75 years. WAKE UP!
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