So, after getting up late, groggy, and
feeling overworked even before I started, I read this article.
Just after, I had to feed a dozen cats and dogs, each dog in a separate room
out of respect for their territorialism and aggressive desire to consume more
than they should (hmm, where have I seen this before), and in the process,
forgot where I put my coffee cup. Retracing steps, I finally find it and
sit back down to my 19-inch window on the ugly (and perhaps remote) world of
the state, and the endless pinpricks of the independent media on its vast
overwhelmingly evil existence. I suspect I share this distractibility and daily
estrangement from the actions of our government with most Americans.
We are
newly bombing Libya and still messing with the Middle East? I thought
that the wars the deep state wanted and started were now limited and constrained!
What happened to lack of funds, lack of popular support, public transparency
that revealed the stupidity and abject failure of these wars?
Deep state. Something systemic,
difficult to detect, hard to remove, hidden. It is a spirit as much as
nerves and organ. How do your starve it, excise it, or just make it go
away? We want to know. I think this explains the popularity of
infotainment about haunted houses, ghosts and alien beings among us. They live
and we are curious and scared.
The “Obama Doctrine” a continuation of the
previous false government doctrines in my lifetime, is less doctrine than the disease, as
David Swanson points out. But in the article he critiques, the
neoconservative warmongering global planning freak perspective (truly, we must
recognize this view as freakish, sociopathic, death-cultish, control-obsessed,
narcissist, take your pick or get a combo, it’s all good). Disease, as a
way of understanding the deep state action on the body politic, is
abnormal. It can and should be cured.
My summary of the long Jeffrey Goldberg
piece is basically that Obama has become more fatalistic (did he mean to say
fatal?) since he won that Nobel Peace
Prize back in 2009. By the way, the “Nobel prize” article
contains this gem, sure to get a chuckle:
“Obama’s drone program is regularly
criticized for a lack of transparency and accountability, especially
considering incomplete intelligence means officials are often unsure about who
will die. “[M]ost individuals killed are not on a kill list, and the government
does not know their names,” Micah Zenko, a scholar at the Council on Foreign
Relations told the New York Times.”
This is about all the fun I can handle in
one day. But back to what I was trying to say.
The deep
state seems to have grown, strengthened and tightened its grip. Can a
lack of real money restrain or starve it? I once thought so, and maybe I
still do. But it doesn’t use real money, but rather debt and creative
financing to get that next new car, er, war and intervention and domestic
spending program. Ultimately it’s not sustainable, and just as
unaffordable cars are junked, stripped, repossessed, and crunched up, so will
go the way of the physical assets of the warfare–welfare state.
Because inflated
salaries, inflated stock
prices and inflated
ruling-class personalities are month to month, these should
evaporate more quickly, over a debris field once known as
some of richest counties in the United States. Can I imagine
the shabbiest of trailer parks in the dismal swamp, where high rises and
government basilicas and abbeys once stood? I’d certainly like to.
But I’ll settle for well-kept, privately owned house trailers, filled with
people actually producing some small value for society, and minding their own
business.
Can a lack of public support reduce the
deep state, or impact it? Well, it would seem that this is a non-factor,
except for the strange history we have had and are witnessing again today, with
the odd successful popular and populist-leaning politician and their related
movements. In my lifetime, only popular figures and their movements get
assassinated mysteriously, with odd polka dot dresses, MKULTRA suggestions,
threats against their family by their competitors (I’m thinking Perot, but one
mustn’t be limited to that case), and always with concordant pressures on the
sociopolitical seams in the country, i.e riots and police/military
activations. The bad dealings
toward, and genuine fear of, Bernie Sanders within the Democratic Party’s wing
of the deep state is matched or exceeded only by the genuine terror of Trump
among the Republican deep state wing. This reaction to something or
some person that so many in the country find engaging and appealing — an
outsider who speaks to the growing political and economic dissatisfaction of a
poorer, more indebted, and more regulated
population – is heart-warming, to be sure. It is a sign that whether or
not we do, the deep state thinks things might change. Thank you, Bernie
and especially Donald, for revealing this much! And the
“republicanization” of the Libertarian Party is also a bright indicator
blinking out the potential of deep state movement and compromise in the pursuit
of “stability.”
Finally,
what of those pinpricks of light, the honest assessments of the real death
trail and consumption pit that the deep state has delivered? Well, it is
growing and broadening. Wikileaks and Snowden are considered assets now
to any and all competitors to the US deep state, from within and from abroad –
the Pandora’s box, assisted by technology, can’t be closed now. The
independent media has matured to the point of criticizing and debating
itself/each other, as well as focusing harsh light on the establishment
media. Instead of left and right mainstream media, we increasingly
recognize state media, and delightedly observe its own struggle to survive in
the face of a growing nervousness of the deep state it assists on command.
Maybe we will one day soon be able to debate
how deep the deep state really is, or whether it was all just a dressed up,
meth’ed up, and eff’ed up a sector of society that deserves a bit of jail time,
some counseling, and a new start. Maybe some job training that goes
beyond the printing of license plates. But given the destruction and mass
murder committed daily in the name of this state, and the environmental
disasters it has created around the world for the future generations, perhaps
we will be no more merciful to these proprietors of the American empire as they
have been to their victims. The ruling class deeply fears our judgment, and
in this dynamic lies the cure.
