Dear citizens, Some may think the "socialist indoctrination" controversy over Obama's school speech was funny after reading the text. I would suggest that the recent corporate led campaign symbolizes the core ideology for establishing the international plutocracy and reigniting fascism.
Since the early but incomplete successes of the civil rights movement led by King, a massive corporate backlash has targeted a destruction of public education and specifically the education of the lower economic class (25-50% of the American population). The middle classes have simultaneously been targeted for mass addictions over the same decades. The tremendous obesity of America indicates only the processed food addictions, but I think it is best to think of the comorbidity in the middle classes as gross materialism. The TV, food, vanity addictions etc. would not individually cause the loss of human values, loss of ethics, and deeply ingrained fear and hopelessness. But now, the cross addicted middle classes can be targeted for fascist ideology while the education of their young can be tossed in with the lower classes. Corporate America wants you and your children to be ignorant! Here is the text of Obama's excellent appropriate speech to school children: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/07/obama-speech-to-schoolchi_n_278763.html Here is a link to Umberto Eco's list of fascist features from his essay on Ur-fascism. (As he explains elsewhere in the essay with the pattern abc, bcd, cde; historical fascist systems do not need each feature but will have patterns overlap when they rise up.) http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html I listened to the speech last night. The President gives a good speech. However, centrism and bipartisanship have also become corporate coded distractions to manipulate a confused and addicted population. (Centrism simply means that corporations purchase both parties.) It is quite clear that the health insurance and drug pushing companies want the status quo but also want more. They want windfall profits with a mandate to cover the uninsured while they continue robbing and killing vulnerable Americans. Without a medicare system available to all, the corporations are positioning to get massive government subsidies while they destroy any attempt at regulation. Haven't we heard that all regulation of corporate power is evil? No real reform is possible while our health is merely a commodity on which to profit. Since the ancient Greeks conceptualized the concept of leisure, civilized people have understood that basic human needs must be met before civilization and individuals can pursue higher causes. The health of citizens in America is just another widget for maximizing profit. The concept that the basic NEEDS of the people must be met is not a new "socialist" idea, but ancient wisdom from the dawn of western civilization. I like Obama personally (not his war policy), but this centrist bipartisanship appears to be leading to windfall corporate profits for the very few, while the for profit death panels maintain the status quo. In my opinion, health care reform is dead unless we wake up and take to the streets! Power from the people is the only hope. (If you talk to people individually about the wars or healthcare, they want a better world. But they can't put the pieces together and our problems continue.) Glenn ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
