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The Silence

By Mark Mason at Jun 16, 2011

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One or two sentences, no essay, no expounding on the evils of capitalism or other forms of concentrated power and wealth.

The silence here in the US is ominous, frightening. Perhaps this is only me sitting her at the keyboard wondering if anyone will speak up. Obama is a total sell-out. The Republicans are on full-throttle attack on everything humane--Social Security, Medicare---you name it.

The people are...

Silent.

Yes, I want the people to say something, so perhaps this is my own arrogance of expectation. If the people choose to be silent, who am I to complain? Yet, I cannot but help to recall the Muasher Doctrine, as espoused by Noam Chomsky.

The people are under control; the people are silent; everything is okay.

Who am I to fret? The people are silent. Everything is okay.

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Your silence, my silence

By Damaschin, Raz at Jun 17, 2011 01:49 AM
I wonder if by any chance we're both looking at the same keyboard, since I was wondering the same thing.

I also see things, things that even though are there, in plain sight others don't. It's just like with certain holograms, it depends entirely on the angle you're looking from. I believe that it's also true that once you _see_, you can never not see from that moment on. But I was maybe trained to see. Maybe because my first 23 years I was not here. I learned to see somewhere else, in a country that hasn't been completly untrained to see (at that time). In the last 10 years being here, on different times I notice my sight starting to fade, but it never left me. You know, it's almost impossible to unlearn a habbit, even more so when the will is there resisting. 

How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one. But the lightbulb need to want to be changed.

Dear Mark, since I've been here, I met a lot of wonderful people, some I even call friends. A lot of those people if not most of them, would be willing to do incredible things. They can't and they won't because they are either afraid or misinformed (please read brainwashed). And the biggest problem yet, I think I can count them with one hand, the ones that actually even see what you and I see.

I'll end this this with a question: "Given what's happenning today in Greece and the fact that the ONLY place I heard about it was on democracynow.org , how can we expect people to speak, about something they can't even see?"

Raz

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