Mack:

I was just observing that I have a long slow burn of anger in me because (1) the Bushites havve raised manipulation of our communications to a new high art form -- a mean and godless art indeed! and (2)so many people are willing to pick up and carry as their own these manufactured ideas, like mindless computers echoing the same download, asserting them with force as genuine viewpoints, when they are just copies of some "position" invented by manipulators. This is especially dark because it degrades the system used to build consensus, and uses it instead to acheive mindless compliance. I believe this is what hapopened in German, also.

Anyone who has grown up being bombarded with advertisements has learned to recognize the difference between communication and manipulative noise -- so how come so many forget this distinction when it comes to politics? People who would never fall for a slice-and-dicer infomercial on TV will buy whole-cloth the Iraq-as-terrorist advertisement without even wondering. And then never notice that when the reality arrives, it stinks and crumbles. Sheeshe.

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