Posted by
Matty on Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:56:23 PM
There is a series on YouTube where we have a very entertaining, very intelligent lecture from a woman wearing a tin foil hat. Quite literally. I have watched several of her videos, all of which are laden with judicious commentary lauding her for her courage to say what she has to say (it takes courage to speak knowing there will be no consequences) and are extremely critical of our heinous economic system. Yuck.
It all started when I wanted to listen to that awesome guitar riff from "Bulls on Parade" by hypocritical extremists Rage Against the Machine (they equate Bush and Gore in their video for "Testify," yet they played the last Democratic Convention for a man who is really no different from the latter). The amount of venom dripping from the comments there (one person smiled as he discussed the "fall" of our "empire"; another said he hoped our country collapsed soon and would be happy to urinate [my word] on the flag) was astonishing. The detestable ignorance I found pervading this eventually led me to that 9/11 Truth community, one whose members range on the scale from violently deranged to utterly psychotic. This woman wearing her hat as some sort of joke speaks out against the evils of corporations. I believe deep down she thinks they take advantage of common people because we are stupid; she certainly speaks to us like we are in her videos. She has it figured out, though. That's why she posts on a website which is owned by one of the most wealthy corporations on the planet and interjects advertising for other corporations in their videos. Way to fight the power. I guess expediency is more important than keeping your conduct in line with your own message. Maybe she just wants attention... Nah.
New World Order. Illuminati. Bohemian Grove. Give me a break. They create the connotative context for these words themselves and then throw them around in what is quite clearly their own form of propaganda (which they hate, right?). Again, expediency outweighs integrity.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this is the fact that these people all believe they are very intelligent. They truly think they have figured out some sort of objective truth which the rest of us are incapable or unwilling to recognize. Yet it is they themselves who most often demonstrate a lack of critical thinking and a willingness to become "sheeple." They speak out against the fascist policies of the Bush Administration (odd how that now has a negative connotation, huh?). They claim free speech is dead. They call for investigations with vigor. A large contingent even compares Bush to Hitler. Their talking points are shared by every member of their community. And, much like their less extreme partners on the Left, they fail to ask themselves some very simple questions: "What loss of our civil liberties has the election of George W. Bush entailed? How can I still say these things and remain free? Do I really need to be railing on about a President most of the American people disapprove of?"
I think the answers prove who needs to investigate.