Society’s Loss of Its Capacity to Think
What mid-20th Century screenwriter/TV producer Rod Serling, famed for “The Twilight Zone,” said 50 years ago seems to have come true.
There really is no other explanation for Trumpism, a set of beliefs so lowly and base that it’s really hard to understand how American society could have possibly arrived here.
I met a middle-aged couple from Limoges, France (between Paris and Bordeaux) yesterday. They’re not thrilled with Macron, though they regard him as “just a politician,” i.e., one who will do whatever’s required to be reelected.
They say that Trump enjoys virtually no support in France. I responded that this is not at all surprising given that country’s grounding in education, environmental responsibility, art, and other aspects of culture.
We have had warnings — about the “dumbing down” of the US.
Two movies have been made: “1984” and Fahrenheit 451.
Both movies dealt with what would happen when people are not;
#1: taught — just what they have:
#2: are not individually charged: to either protect what they have in this country, and what it based on:
#3 they need to be made aware of the fact that that they will be counted and dealt with: — full stop.
It’s time to take off the gloves and get down to bare knuckles with these people — both politically and economically:
taking no prisoners — but without any physical violence.
They have proven that they don’t believe in anything — unless it come out of the mouth of some morally corrupt “pastor” of something they have bastardized by calling it “religion” — or their pocketbook.
It is such that we have to “get-down” to the fact that “you can’t cure a dog that’s got rabies” – it has to be put out of it’s misery — but no way physically.