I discussed the phenomenon by which events in the world appear and magically fall away. Complexities such as war, revolutions, economic problems disappear from view and so slip from our memory, as if they never existed.
Thus there are problems with our systems of information and our understanding of events: We forget the events, their history and context, though we remember some vague aspects: Russia Bad, terrorist attacks. We remember only what was repeated ad nauseum by the media: Russia invades Ukraine, Russia shoots down airliner, ISIS battling Kurds. And without context and history to anchor the story, we can forget the previous actions and words that misled or failed us so completely.
Examples include:
GW Bush: Major combat operations in Iraq are over.
Rumsfeld: The war might last 3 months, I doubt six. And it will pay for itself.
More importantly, we forget and lose track of what our politicians, our rulers, our oligarchs are doing.
We lose track of our national priorities.
Already divided by our politics of ideology: race, class, left, right we cannot even articulate our national needs.
Why will Congress not pass a constitutional amendment to strip corporations of their standing as people? Is this democracy?
Summation of the issues:
Who benefits from eternal war? Such a war is neither appropriate nor lawful and is only the beginning of a blood feud that will last for generations. The appeal to our fears and hates, our baser instincts, serves as our approval for actions we would not undertake otherwise.
And so, like children distracted by a jiggling key chain, we give our rulers what we want, and they give us fear, and anger and hate and division amongst ourselves and amongst other nations.
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