Re: 1 in 3 Americans untethered from reality
On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:35 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote:
Hatred for the government is no bad thing, and although I do not
believe that the Bush administration brought about 9/11, there are
a huge number of unanswered questions and discrepancies in the
official account which could lead people to believe this. I’m
surprised you didn’t notice when almost fifty per cent of New
Yorker said they believed much the same thing.
I did.
I’ve read a lot of the material on 9/11 Truth and so on, and once
you’ve siphoned out the hysteria, exaggeration, misrepresentation
of sources and selectivity, you still have a lot left that demands
explanation more than it explains.
Once you’ve siphoned that out, there’s not much left. Which is
classic American political thinking, as is “hatred for the
government.” I’m reminded of that quote from Mills I posted here a
couple of months ago (The Power Elite, p. 341):
“What element of the higher circles - what would-be element - has
such immorality not touched? Perhaps all those cases that come
briefly to public attention are but marginal - or, at any rate, those
that were caught. But then, there is the feeling that the bigger you
are, the less likely you are to be caught. There is the feeling that
all the petty cases seem to signify something grander, that they go
deeper and that their roots are now well organized in the higher and
middle American ways of life. But among the mass distractions this
feeling soon passes harmlessly away. For the American distrust of the
high and mighty is a distrust without doctrine and without political
focus; it is a distrust felt by the mass public as a series of more
or less cynically expected disclosures.”