to “ the children of a Mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living , and don ’ t want to know , but then wonder why someone just threw a firebomb through the living room window .”
Endlessly frustrating those who have taken advantage of self-education in the age of information , arguments proffered by government propaganda — such as waging wars to bring about peace , or that the U . S . aggressively and violently invades other countries for democracy and freedom — take root with no basis in reality . Belief other nations will steal our ( already nonexistent ) Democracy if we don ’ t invade them first insidiously infiltrates even learned segments of the population . Though such inexplicable reasoning readily evidences justifications necessary for popular support when the U . S . spontaneously violates international law concerning war , the people still believe the lie — in great part , thanks to corporate media ’ s incessant confirmation of American exceptionalism .
Ignorance of the breadth of American imperialism — the reality of its plundering resources around the planet , its actions as an enforcement arm of the plutocratic corporatocracy , and the violence it employs on innocent civilians wherever it chooses — remain unknown to the majority in this country . With essentially all information available a click away , this ignorance amounts to little more than a flat denial of reality . Saying ‘ my government would never do that ’ might be one thing , but refusing to investigate whether or not the statement holds weight is essentially admitting the government takes precedence over truth .
“ Do you begin to see , then , what kind of world we are creating ?” Orwell wrote in the dystopic classic . “ It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined . A world of fear and treachery and torment , a world of trampling and of being trampled upon , a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself . Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain .”
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But the American indoctrination of ignorance most chillingly corresponds with a particular passage from 1984 — one marking the self-imposed homogeneity of a people scrambling over one another to exemplify patriotism .
“ The ideal set up by the Party was something huge , terrible , and glittering — a world of steel and concrete , of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons — a nation of warriors and fanatics , marching forward in perfect unity , all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans , perpetually working , fighting , triumphing , persecuting — three hundred million people all with the same face .”
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