Chris Hedges, a veteran US journalist, Pulitzer winner and an ordained
Minister, has written scores of articles on the condition of the USA
today.
The following is his latest piece:
Sadism defines nearly every cultural, social, and political experience
in the United States. It is expressed in the unchecked greed of an
oligarchic elite that has seen its wealth increase during the pandemic
by $1.1 trillion while the country has suffered the sharpest rise in its
poverty rate in more than 50 years.
It is expressed in the pornification of American society, where women
are tortured, beaten, degraded, and sexually violated, often by numerous
men, in porn films, and then discarded after a few weeks or months with
severe trauma, along with sexually transmitted diseases and vaginal and
anal tears that must be repaired surgically. It is expressed in the
“incel” movement that perpetrates violent assaults against women by men
who say they have been spurned or ignored by women.
It is expressed in the predatory health care system where, as Steven
Brill writes, a trip to the emergency room for chest pains that turn out
to be indigestion can exceed the cost of a semester of college, simple
lab work done during a few days in a hospital can be more expensive than
a new car, and a drug that requires $300 to make and that the
manufacturer sells to a hospital for $3,000 to 3,500 can cost the
patient to whom it is prescribed $13,702.
It is expressed in the nihilistic mass shootings at schools, including
elementary schools, and workplaces. And it is expressed in the murderous
and futile wars we prosecute or support in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Libya, and Yemen.
Read more:: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56612.htm
Eddie
