I don't know if I can attend this movie at Calvary about the ubiquitous
police brutality. If someone goes, please send comments to the list.
Thanks!
It's interesting to consider police brutality across the US, as we
Americans passively watch the massive street protests by our European
brothers and sisters. The courageous European masses, with higher
levels of civic engagement and civic literacy, understand the importance
of fighting together against global fascism.
But fear of the militarized police brutality and prison industrial
complex in the U.S. can only explain part of our apathy, as the middle
class grudgingly accepts their own enslavement. (The temporary
detentions or Stop and Frisk will, I believe, be looked at as one of the
important markers of the fascist shift silently accepted by the middle
classes.)
The collusion of our corporate media and the general
confused/manipulated state of consumers is responsible for some of the
learned helplessness and misplaced anger operating among us sheep.
But, I also think the genuine fear the middle classes have for their
health care, education of children, and retirement keep them in such a
state of chronic stress; that the sense of helplessness becomes
insurmountable, as we silently sit back and wait for our superiors to
shock and awe us like Seligman's dogs. Our rulers keep us on the
precipice so they can intimidate us to fight over crumbs and a burning
mother earth, while they get away with the whole pie.
I wish Democrats would understand why their leaders keep attacking our
heroes and learned people who stand up for all of us. They claim they
adopt the same hate-filled war crime policies because it's the fault of
crazy leftists who piss off Republicans! If it wasn't such a tragedy,
I'd believe the whole bipartisan show was an absurd comedy.
We can take to the streets like our European comrades and the indigenous
people of the world, or we can quietly accept our enslavement and the
death of mother earth!
A citizen
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