I think I finally get it. It took me a few years but it has finally sunk in. I’m talking about how the vast majority of the people in this country and continuously lied to and they know it. Yet they smile and take it anyway.
Like the line from the movie “You can’t handle the truth!”. That is what has happened to Americans, they can’t handle the truth.
Don’t tell Americans they are fat because they eat too much of the wrong things and don’t exercise, they don’t want to hear that. Tell them that is isn’t their fault and blame it on the fast-food places.
Don’t tell Americans that they should not have over-extended themselves on credit when they bought that $300, 000 house on a $50, 000 a year income, blame it on the mortage companies or the government.
Don’t tell Americans that they have become slaves to consumerism, that they are buying trendy shit that will not improve their lives on a deep level. Tell them that they have to have the latest mobile phone. They will buy it.
Don’t tell Americans that our Consitution is no longer worth anything and that we have become subjects to a tyrinnacle government that is worse that Orwell could have invisioned. Tell them that they have to be treated as criiminals when they fly, they had better have their “papers” with they when the travel and that half what they earn is not theirs, it belongs to the government. Hell, they will beleive you, conform to the rules and still think they are free!
People don’t want to hear the truth. Deep down they know what is happening (I think, maybe not) but they would rather beleive what they see and hear on TV and radio. Because if they face the truth, if they admit that they have ignored the lies than they have a responsibility to stop what is happening.
But that ain’t going to happen. People don’t have responsibility any longer. Men are no longer men, women have become characters out of “Sex in the City”. And they are happy with their roles it seems.
If they faced the truth, they would have to do something about it and it seems that taking responsiblity is no longer the American Way.
While delivering a speech on a whistle stop tour in Seattle, a supporter yelled to Truman, “Give ‘em hell, Harry!” Truman responded, “I don’t give them hell, I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.”
