Dear Reader,
Stop reading now. Listen to this song. Listen to the voice. Listen to the passion. Do not watch. Listen.
Chris Hedges has provided the best explanation I've heard of why people write. The effort is a protest against injustice. The geography changes; Palestine, Kashmir, Yemen, Ukraine. The topic, the constant topic, is injustice.
An examination of power may lead one to institutions like the Bank of International Settlements. It may lead one to the use of military power, and thus death, as a form of coercion. It may lead one to examining the nature of corruption in political institutions.
In the end, the problem is people. Beautifully, paradoxically the solutions will be created by people.
Listen to the words of "Masters of War": "by threatening my baby, unborn and unnamed, you aint worth the blood that runs in your veins". The people who create this outcome are the problem. They create suffering and death.
They are immoral. They embody a set of ideological passions. They are not rational. They have not studied history. They do not understand what they do. They are killing people. They are insane. They are psychopaths.
Mr. Prashad speaks of the conflict between the power of money and the power of people in his interview with Lee Camp (see last article). For Vijay, people are the reason for hope.
If, as Caitlin Johnstone and Noam Chomsky before her advise, we escape the propaganda paradigm within which these psychopaths programme us, the options become complex and interesting rather than binary. We escape the idiotic "good versus evil" trap.
Damn the psychopaths. Damn the binary thinking. And, burn down the idiotic propaganda with your mind.