Imperialism wins ... now come home and fight like Hell for a future!
If there is a God, that slippery Devil of a notion - then it knows I suffer the Dear Readers who forward posts like this, almost as much as I suffer the Dear Leaders running this country into the landfill of corruption and slavery.
A Pulitzer prize winning war correspondent, has written one of the most damning essays on the dark future ahead for enlightened citizens wanting a responsive government. I have friends who can't find jobs, graduates from the blow dried Department of Journalism (name your university) talented, decent and fair people who do not deserve to have their sharp brains dashed against the tree of commerce. I have for decades long railed for more J. A. Waylands in this land to no avail. I shall continue to do so with some new tools and blood in my hand.
I take to the internet like any other foolhardy worker with a new tool to be turned into a weapon against the war-loving capitalist class of parasites running this asylum of lunatics called the United States. Hedges sends his readers off on an empty endless search for "trustworthy and impartial sources of information" that journey is wrought with idealism dependent on a readership that can read. Julius Augustus Wayland, founding editor and publisher for the largest socialist newspaper ever printed in the United States, in 1895 Girard, Ks. said, "The great battles of the world have not been fought and won by polished humanity."
If there is a God, that slippery Devil of a notion - then it knows I suffer the Dear Readers who forward posts like this, almost as much as I suffer the Dear Leaders running this country into the landfill of corruption and slavery.
A Pulitzer prize winning war correspondent, has written one of the most damning essays on the dark future ahead for enlightened citizens wanting a responsive government. I have friends who can't find jobs, graduates from the blow dried Department of Journalism (name your university) talented, decent and fair people who do not deserve to have their sharp brains dashed against the tree of commerce. I have for decades long railed for more J. A. Waylands in this land to no avail. I shall continue to do so with some new tools and blood in my hand.
I take to the internet like any other foolhardy worker with a new tool to be turned into a weapon against the war-loving capitalist class of parasites running this asylum of lunatics called the United States. Hedges sends his readers off on an empty endless search for "trustworthy and impartial sources of information" that journey is wrought with idealism dependent on a readership that can read. Julius Augustus Wayland, founding editor and publisher for the largest socialist newspaper ever printed in the United States, in 1895 Girard, Ks. said, "The great battles of the world have not been fought and won by polished humanity."
You, dear reader, are not "polished humanity" and I beseech you, demand of you - to stand up with your eyes wide open, fight and win our future. Let us take history into our hands!
I am not happy with Mr. Hedges. I consider his words too important to discard into a rubbish heap in my backyard to compost and rot with the advert soaked follies called "newspapers" today. Someone should rage at this man for answers to the here and now, not pieties on some spiritual plane - useless, futile religious spheres of influence. Mr. Hedges, I love you, but please go back to your monastary or your ivory towered sanctuary - we need a fighting partisan populist and lively press.
Chris Hedges is like so many I know now days what I call a "closet comrade"; educated, once bright and shining, but rusted from lack of use, because the readers are too stupid, or thick-headed and obsessed with getting rich - they have the medicine in their minds but refuse to say it - socialism and individual liberty.
[excerpt] "The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of news print with the lightning speed of the Internet. It does not signal an inevitable and salutary change. It is not a form of progress. The decline of newspapers is about the rise of the corporate state, the loss of civic and public responsibility on the part of much of our entrepreneurial class and the intellectual poverty of our post-literate world, a world where information is conveyed primarily through rapidly moving images rather than print. ..."
Read Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy at the important Truthdig, but with a critical eye and never forget to keep in mind - "We can do more and better, together."
I am not happy with Mr. Hedges. I consider his words too important to discard into a rubbish heap in my backyard to compost and rot with the advert soaked follies called "newspapers" today. Someone should rage at this man for answers to the here and now, not pieties on some spiritual plane - useless, futile religious spheres of influence. Mr. Hedges, I love you, but please go back to your monastary or your ivory towered sanctuary - we need a fighting partisan populist and lively press.
Chris Hedges is like so many I know now days what I call a "closet comrade"; educated, once bright and shining, but rusted from lack of use, because the readers are too stupid, or thick-headed and obsessed with getting rich - they have the medicine in their minds but refuse to say it - socialism and individual liberty.
[excerpt] "The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of news print with the lightning speed of the Internet. It does not signal an inevitable and salutary change. It is not a form of progress. The decline of newspapers is about the rise of the corporate state, the loss of civic and public responsibility on the part of much of our entrepreneurial class and the intellectual poverty of our post-literate world, a world where information is conveyed primarily through rapidly moving images rather than print. ..."
Read Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy at the important Truthdig, but with a critical eye and never forget to keep in mind - "We can do more and better, together."
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