RE: [Futurework] Denial and Deception

[Karen Watters Cole]

We might say that the NEW Ugly American is overstressed, insecure and perplexed by the conflicting information and images of global citizenship.  This partially explains why many deliberately choose to be self-comatose, practicing the above symptoms.  The job for us as humane globalists is to present controversy and painful truths in a way that people can come to understand, rather than reject outright.  KWC   Darryl, I believe there is a percentage of people in the U.S. that are so angry at so many things in their own country that were wrong or they have no power over and cannot change that they need an scapegoat and any opposition to that scapegoating will not be brooked and may turn the angry mob against the well-intentioned information giver. arthur   I think this rings true.  Is this what Freud called sublimation?   Karen, your instincts are correct. A brief excerpt from my recent (past) job. I was talking with a customer about the somewhat "checkered" past of the Bush family and did not realize that someone else was listening in. Well! When the one had left, the "uninvited listener" was all over me. (Paraphrased): "What right had I to smear his president. He was doing what he should to keep the world free of terrorists and we (up here in Canada) should be grateful the he was because we (up here in Canada) were too *** stupid and scared to get involved." He did not want websites for information. He did not want to check the Library of Congress for historical documentation. This person could not accept the idea of "free speech" or "dissension" or any P.O.V. that was in opposition to the current political will (or is that wall) of the U.S. war machine. He even went as far as complaining to the owner of the business about my attitude re: speaking about politics while at work. And the owner told  me to apologise. So, I apologized for him listening to a private conversation and left the room. I believe there is a percentage of people in the U.S. that are so angry at so many things in their own country that were wrong or they have no power over and cannot change that they need an scapegoat and any opposition to that scapegoating will not be brooked and may turn the angry mob against the well-intentioned information giver. How to make Bush the scapegoat is the billion dollar question. Darryl P.S. Please fire your "article" over.