Star Man
12-14-2018, 11:05 AM
Reign of Idiots
Chris Hedges
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The idiots take over in the final days of crumbling civilizations. Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation. Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for the rich and cutting social service programs for the poor, and project economic growth on the basis of myth. Idiot industrialists poison the water, the soil and the air, slash jobs and depress wages. Idiot bankers gamble on self-created financial bubbles and impose crippling debt peonage on the citizens. Idiot journalists and public intellectuals pretend despotism is democracy. Idiot intelligence operatives orchestrate the overthrow of foreign governments to create lawless enclaves that give rise to enraged fanatics. Idiot professors, “experts” and “specialists” busy themselves with unintelligible jargon and arcane theory that buttresses the policies of the rulers. Idiot entertainers and producers create lurid spectacles of sex, gore and fantasy.
There is a familiar checklist for extinction. We are ticking off every item on it.
The idiots know only one word—“more.” They are unencumbered by common sense. They hoard wealth and resources until workers cannot make a living and the infrastructure collapses. They live in privileged compounds where they eat chocolate cake and order missile strikes. They see the state as a projection of their vanity. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine (https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Wilhelminism&item_type=topic%20), Pahlavi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_dynasty%20) and Soviet dynasties crumbled because the whims and obsessions of ruling idiots were law.
Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy. He is what lies behind the mask of our...
Continues here (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/reign-of-idiots/)
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Jared Diamond wrote "Collapse" in 2005. World civilization is collapsing and Chris Hedges chronicles the immediate, American experience of the U.S. suicide. The system is out of control. There have been many previous examples, but none has affected the entire planet like the current collapse. Hedges names it all. There will be no law to stop methane release or Arctic ice melt or global melting, because these processes have already been set in motion. Star Man
Chris Hedges
Downloaded December 14, 2018 from https://www.truthdig.com/articles/reign-of-idiots/
The idiots take over in the final days of crumbling civilizations. Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation. Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for the rich and cutting social service programs for the poor, and project economic growth on the basis of myth. Idiot industrialists poison the water, the soil and the air, slash jobs and depress wages. Idiot bankers gamble on self-created financial bubbles and impose crippling debt peonage on the citizens. Idiot journalists and public intellectuals pretend despotism is democracy. Idiot intelligence operatives orchestrate the overthrow of foreign governments to create lawless enclaves that give rise to enraged fanatics. Idiot professors, “experts” and “specialists” busy themselves with unintelligible jargon and arcane theory that buttresses the policies of the rulers. Idiot entertainers and producers create lurid spectacles of sex, gore and fantasy.
There is a familiar checklist for extinction. We are ticking off every item on it.
The idiots know only one word—“more.” They are unencumbered by common sense. They hoard wealth and resources until workers cannot make a living and the infrastructure collapses. They live in privileged compounds where they eat chocolate cake and order missile strikes. They see the state as a projection of their vanity. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanov, Wilhelmine (https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Wilhelminism&item_type=topic%20), Pahlavi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_dynasty%20) and Soviet dynasties crumbled because the whims and obsessions of ruling idiots were law.
Donald Trump is the face of our collective idiocy. He is what lies behind the mask of our...
Continues here (https://www.truthdig.com/articles/reign-of-idiots/)
_________________________________________________
Jared Diamond wrote "Collapse" in 2005. World civilization is collapsing and Chris Hedges chronicles the immediate, American experience of the U.S. suicide. The system is out of control. There have been many previous examples, but none has affected the entire planet like the current collapse. Hedges names it all. There will be no law to stop methane release or Arctic ice melt or global melting, because these processes have already been set in motion. Star Man