Susanhu’s frontpaged diary, Wanna Boycott Chris Matthews?, speaks of her alarm as she realizes that so-called “neutral” media newspeople like Matthews seem in reality to be parroting the White House line, albeit in a subtler manner than say Rush Limbaugh and Anne Coulter. She seems surprised somehow, yet this has been business as usual…increasingly business as usual…since at least the beginning of the resistance to the Vietnam War here in the U.S. I wrote a comment, she replied, and I wrote another. In those comments I developed an idea that has been occurring to me with more more and more strength and regularity as I have watched the corporate media run their game from the 2000 election on.
It seems as if it might be a good idea to share this exchange with the whole audience here, so…
More below.
I wrote:
Jesus!!!
FUCK Chris Matthews.
BOYCOTT THE WHOLE GODDAMNED MEDIA SYSTEM.
NEWSTRIKE!!!
Really.
When are you folks going to get it through your heads that Chris Matthews, Katie Couric and the rest are just interchangeable parts in an entire SYSTEM THAT IS PREDICATED UPON MISINFORMING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC (LEFT RIGHT AND CENTER, UP AND DOWN THE EDUCATIONAL AND FINANCIAL LADDER) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE IDEAS AND GOALS OF THE PERMANENT, CORPORATE-OWNED GOVERNMENT.
Which I suppose would be alright if said PermaGov wasn’t totally anti-human in its goals and tactics.
You know those Hollywood sci-fi flicks about a future where machines take over and use humans as tools?
They are not fiction, and this IS the future.
Wake the fuck up.
Do not collaborate with the enemy. And the primary tool of this “enemy” is false information. Let them use their tool on you…and it is a very effective and very subtle tool, by the way, so do not fool yourself into thinking that you are somehow immune because you’re so goddamned evolved, because you are not…let them work on your subconscious with it and you are a goner. Left, right OR center, rich or poor.
A goner.
As in gone.
Outta here.
Done for.
Absent.
Without leave.
Without even LEAVING.
You CANNOT reform this enemy.
You cannot reason with it.
And you cannot cut off one of its tentacles and think that you have won, because it will simply replace that tentacle with another, more effective one.
There are a THOUSAND Chris Matthews/Katie Courics/Rut Limpboughs etc. waiting in the minor leagues, ready and waiting to play ball with the machines for a dollar three-eighty more than the average wage earned by the rest of the peasants.
They are our house niggers, working for the overseers who are in turn working for the man (The machine, in this case. The REAL Superman/Ubermensch), and we are the field slaves.
Time to burn down the mansion.
TIME TO TURN THE ENTIRE FUCKING MACHINE OFF.
O-F-F OFF!!!
NEWSTRIKE!!!, goddamnit.
It is the ONLY answer.
AG
Susanhu answered:
But it is vital to monitor these “house niggers” because they are who most Americans hear.
Most Americans 1) don’t have the time or 2) the inclination to do the digging necessary to come up with your perspective, Arthur. Sad but true. They BELIEVE what they hear on their AM raadio and TEEVEEEs.
One GOOD THING about Chris Matthews: He does have Amy Goodman on fairly often, and he lets her talk. It’s an outstanding program when he does. And Amy doesn’t play their game at all … she lays it all out. It’s beautiful to watch her go eyeball-to-eyeball with a Repug.
And I replied:
If it is “beautiful” to watch Amy Goodman in a situation like that…it is beautiful in the same manner as it is to watch a fine athlete on a consistently losing team.
It’s not working, Susan.
Sorry.
I wish that it was.
They include a token truth-teller as part of their scam.
As a sop to people…well-meaning, good people…like yourself.
They include those tokens in a small enough (And nudge nudge,wink wink enough…”Aren’t those wacky liberals just so CUTE sometimes, Henry!!!”) setting so that they they do NOTHING to change a single media-tranced out mind.
One piece of truth surrounded by 960 lies.
The truth of the matter simply gets lost in the clutter.
The empty chatter.
Sorry Susan…we have to dismantle this media system.
Any which way we can.
Or it is going to destroy us.
We are aleady to some degree the slaves of this machine. We are being progressively more often used simply as gofers. Technicians who help to keep the machine running instead of vice-versa. More mobile than robots…so far…we fight and die to provide the blood that runs this mega-machine.(Oil at the moment, but if that runs out we can fry ourselves with radiation as far as the machine is concerned. As long as there are enough of us left to help keep it running.)
Our lives, our finances, entire cultures are in thrall to the machine, Susan.
Gotta stop somewhere.
May as well be now.
And the corporate media is the tool the machine uses to keep us working for ITS goals rather than for the good of living creatures.
Is it a “sentient” machine?
No, I suppose not.
Not yet, anyway.
Is a pride of lions “sentient”?
No…but does it really matter to the prey?
Are we to be the hyenas and jackals for this machine?
Those who clean up the scraps it leaves behind? The antelopes and water buffalo it eats in its own self-interest? The bacteria in its gut that helps it to digest its power meals?
That’s where it’s headed, Susan, and Amy Goodman be DAMNED.
She’s smart; she’s clever; she means well…and she’s not getting ANYTHING done.
Who’s in charge here, again?
Who’s headed for the Supreme Court?
Who’s dying in a Blood For Oil War?
Whose lives, jobs, education and culture have literally disappeared in a mechanical haze of automatic questions and answers?
Since JFK was killed…HOW MANY ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE EVEN BEEN RUN BY DEMOCRATS, let alone been in clear and effective opposition to this corporate machine that transforms men and women into faceless functionaries?
Maybe some of Carter…what he could manage before the machine got rid of him… and whatever Clinton could manage and still (barely) survive two whole terms? As opposed to a LOT of Nixon/Ford/Reagan/BushI/BushII, their Rumsfeldian minions and whatever is about to happen if we do not find a way to stop this media movement from maintaning its hypnotic hold on the minds and souls of the vast majority of Americans.
When I say “Wake the Fuck UP!!!”…I am not just whistlin’ Dixie here, Susan.
More like Taps if we’re not careful.
As in RIP, Homo Sapiens.
That’s wehere it’s headed, m’dear…
I’d say “BET on it”, but…who’d be there to collect if I am right?
Fight, fight against the synthesis of the light.
Later…
AG
P.S.I have been in Holland, now. And the UK. For a couple of weeks. MUCH better here in Europe. Their anti-machine checks and balances are working. MUCH better than those in the U.S. Much less trance-state going on.
That you CAN bet on.
Just look in peoples’ eyes.
They look back at you instead of judging you as some sort of inferior television image. They listen to what you are saying, too.
All you have to do is keep a critical mass of people free of this thing and it begins to break down. Not even a majority. Just enough.
Let’s try it.
What have we got to lose but our credit cards?
And what stands to be gained in exchange?
Read my sig.
Replace the word “Power” with the words “The machine”.
Yup.
The machine concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.-Arthur Gilroy
The only effective “demand” of which I personally can conceive…one that would run an end-around play on the mass hypnosis system…is a media boycott. A NEWSTRIKE!!! The larger the number of people who turned the machine OFF in their own lives, the less influence it would have…and the less money (power) it would garner as well, if the boycott was indeed truly sucessful. Reach a critcal mass, and it would fall.
Anyone with a better idea…one other than storming the WMD-protected barricades waving ploughshares and imaginary samurai swords or trying to talk the media into recognizining its own error (and it is NOT in error if its goal is the protection of the machine rather than the protection of humans)…anyone with a better idea, feel free to chime right in here.
I’m all ears.
Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.-Frederick Douglass
That’s about all I have to say on the matter.
Popular culture quite often unconsciously lays out the facts of real life in mythic form before they become clear to the mass of people. That the most terrifying of these myth-movies starred the machine-formed (steroids) hulk Arnold Schwarzenegger as a machine bent on FIGHTING the machine when in reality he was so much PART of the machine that it considered running him for President is irony on a higher plane than I can even BEGIN to consider.
Maybe there IS a God.
And maybe it’s just a very, VERY evolved machine. One that understands the value of the living.
Past my ken.
But something is happening. And we do not know what it is.
Do we, Mr. + Ms. Jones?
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.
And neither do you need a mechanic to know when the machine is broken.
Let’s turn it off until we can fix it.
Before it blows right up in our faces.
Later…
AG
