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Empire of Illusion[1] |
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Reality TV world |
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An Open Letter To Gary Goodyear MP, On The Imminent Collapse Of Americanism |
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Dear Mr. Goodyear, |
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I’m writing to you today out of concern for my family, my neighbours and my community. I, like many Canadians, feel disconnected from the Canadian politico, in fact, I feel as though I know more about American politics than our own. |
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That said, I have recently finished reading Pulitzer Prize Winner Chris Hedges’ newest book t**led: Empire of Illusions, The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, which, if you haven’t, I would strongly encourage you to read. This book paints a frighteningly bleak picture of the economic future of our closest international neighbours. It speaks of the illusions that have been spoon fed to middle and lower cla*** Americans over the past 30 years and longer, illusion such as corporatism, commercialism, free market economics and pop****r entertainment. It speaks of corporate control over government and the coming failures of all social systems, and soon of an entire economy. Most frighteningly, it speaks of a voting populous who knows nothing of the pending collapse of their county, of a people who would rather indulge in the fantasy of pseudo-events presented by reality TV and corporately controlled punditry, than to protest the gross injustices that take place behind a thin veil of patriotism and national security. Even to a Canadian, Mr. Hedges presents a sobering picture. |
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Now, I’m a moderately educated somewhat intelligent man. I’m in my mid-thirties, married, employed and one could say that I’m a member of Ontario’s lower-middle cla*** citizenry, though some months my household teeters just above the poverty line. From this position, and having just put down Mr. Hedges book, I find myself wondering what my government is doing to protect me, to insulate my community from the apparently inevitable collapse of our largest international trading partner. |
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I am not so naïve as to misunderstand that Mr. Hedges is using his medium to support a political narrative of his own, and I do take his words with a grain of salt. However, I can’t help but notice that the same mechanisms used by American Corporatists to corrupt government, to hijack the economy and to plunder the rights of their citizenry, are entrenched here in Canada as well. We watch American TV programming (though in large part due only to a lack of options), we emulate American consumerism, our primary and secondary schools struggle with literacy and motivation, our higher learning resources are starting to resemble elitist job-skills farms rather than the purveyors of knowledge and wisdom they were intended to be. In short Mr. Goodyear, it appears that we are following our American neighbours down the proverbial toilet. |
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Colloquially, to be disillusioned is thought of as a negative idea, as though it is a better thing to be fooled by the illusions of TV and pop****r culture, than to shed the naïveté of a society that is addicted to entertainment and to actually think about the consequences of our collective actions. When I look around myself, at coworkers, at the children of neighbours and friends and at a Canadian political culture I know nearly nothing about, I am truly afraid. Our youth is distracted by the allure of the American dream, a dream that has long been dead, and in their distraction lays all the opportunity needed by Corporate Elites to plunder our rights as well. The first glimpse of which might be seen in Mr. McGuinty’s Harmonised Sales Tax(?). Whether we survive the imminent collapse of Americanism in our world or not, we are standing on the edge of a precipice and I fear that when the worst happens, we won’t even recognise that the ground beneath our feet disappeared long ago. |
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This is a plea, rather than a complaint or a suggestion, a plea for help in surviving the coming years. I don’t know what to do, I don’t know who else to ask and I don’t know if it’s already too late. What I do know is, my household is already in a precarious position, and I can’t imagine what life will be like in Mr. Hedges’ future. |
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Please take my sentiment to our leaders in Ottawa, in the hopes that my voice may be added to those already being heard on these issues. |
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Yours Truly, |
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Martin J. Clemens |
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(Disillusioned, but not yet disenchanted) |
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Empire of Illusions: The End of Literacy and The Triumph of Spectacle |
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning |
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The Nation Inst**ute |
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Anschutz Distinguished Fellow |
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Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, Granta |
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Mother Jones |
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Truthdig.com |
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An incredible potentially groundbreaking doc***ent relating to the fact that we have intercepted extraterrestrial signals been made public by the NSA. On its own official nsa.gov website the doc***ent is ent**led “Key To Extraterrestrial Messages” – by Campaigne. |
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Key to the Extraterrestrial Message |
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Official NSA Doc***ent Verifies That We Have Been Contacted By Extraterrestrials |
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lost continent of Lemuria |
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people of Mu |
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special magnetic properties |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth |
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French Village which will ‘survive 2012 armageddon’ plagued by visitors |
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Bugarach – The Mystic Mountain” |
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Die Glocke (5) |
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Wunderwaffe |
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Prawda O Wunderwaffe |
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The Hunt for Zero Point |
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Wundwerwaffe |
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Third Reich (2) |
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Der Riese |
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Xerum 525 |
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Leichtmetall |
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The Fabric of the Cosmos, |
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wunderwaffe |
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if it can be known, He knows it”. |
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‘if it can be done, He can do it’. |
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God and the “Three ‘O’s |
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