Morbid Fascination

Western culture has been rimmed the fuck out, basically, hasn't it? Exemplified by the U.S. I can't look away. The corporate oligarchy has triumphed. The purported energy and vibrancy of that culture is an empty shell. Buy, consume, own things. America's mythic individualism is actually 'herdism', corporatism and technology, externalizing our lives, pissing all over that most precious interior journey and the life of the mind. Intellectualism derided as elitist, Forrest Gump and good ole boy Bush. A people turning to myth and magic as cognitive understanding is exiled. The heartland a methamphetamine-soaked Superfund, enraged, turning on itself like a snared hyena.

Thomas Frank, writing in an essay called 'Dark Age', says:
"The wiring of every individual into the warm embrace of the multinational entertainment oligopoly is ... the crowning triumph of the marketplace over humanity's unruly consciousness ... We will be able to achieve no distance from business culture since we will no longer have a life, a history, a consciousness apart from it ... It is putting itself beyond our power of imagining because it has become our imagination, it has become our power to envision, and describe, and theorize, and resist".

Microsoft and AT&T designing curricula for five year olds. Hollywood pumping out veiny red steaks of physical excitement, dripping with base adrenaline and pumped up on hormones, like milk that brings on puberty at eight years old. A third of the adult population obese, sucking on super-sized shakes, comforted like huge infants by corn-rich slop.

Forty-two percent of American adults cannot locate Japan on a world map. (Garrison Keillor)
15 percent cannot locate America.
40 percent of adults did not know that Germany was America's enemy in WW2. (New York Times)
50 percent of high school seniors were unaware of the Cold War. (DoE)
60 percent had no idea how the U.S came into existence. (DoE)
A survey of adults revealed that 63 percent believed that human beings lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. (National Science Foundation)
Of the 158 countries in the United Nations, the U.S ranked 49th in literacy. Roughly 60 percent of the adult population has never read a book of any kind. (Morris Berman)

Millions of people without power for the foreseeable future in Florida because of Wilma, and Jeb Bush calls them stupid for not stocking up, and it's not FEMA's job to help out. The horror of New Orleans, a people abandoned and worse off than before the civil rights movement.

America as a dual economy, rimmed the fuck out. I don't want to look, and can't look away.

The statistics above are from five years ago.

Learn who you are, and how the world works. Everything else can suck on a warm cock.
Sirrah!

"Sallust's description of Rome in 80 B.C - a government controlled by wealth, a ruling class numb to the repetitions of political scandal, a public diverted by chariot races and gladiatorial shows - in other words, a right sorry bunch of cunts."