you have to keep the masses ignorant to keep them going over seas to fight wars for profit. if you ruin thier job hopes at home and then convince them the join up for wars to profit hasliburton oil and becktel to name a few it enriches who? follow the money.

if the trillions lost in iraq had been invested in development and infrastructure for alternative energy average americans would be free of dependance on foreign energy and have jobs to boot, but that would be "big governemt" and socialism. all thw while putting the nations wealth into wall street bail outs and massive military over spending isn't socialist big government>

people have to be kept ignorant and rewarded for ignorance to make the oil companies and other military industrialist complex rich and keep average joes poor afraid and compliant.

chriss hedges calls it inverted totalitarianism, i prefer corporate totalitarianism, how many out there have lost personal freedoms in this system--almost everybody, right down to seattle northwest folklife buskers on a recent thread. they are losong their constitutional rights to a corporate "folk group" running the festival. this is happening in all walks of life

ignorance is good for the rich and powerfull as milan kundera said
"the struggle to remember IS the strugglkel against tyrany'