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Submitted by pratincole on April 28, 2006
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There’s no doubt about it, America has taken a turn for the worst. Since the end of the cold war when America was left as the single super power we have taken every step possible, politically and militarily, to insure that we remain king of the hill. Those of our citizens that recognize the sounds of Americas nails screeching as we slide down speak out, and are drowned out by a machine that pumps out propaganda and advertisements at a rate only Hitler would have been proud of, while our citizens, by in large, passively wait for the next commercial. We allow our private government to manufacture consent through our news and entertainment to the extent that the average American worker, who works ten hours a day, believes that the average CEO makes ten million a year because they work hard. Then we turn our heads to the fact that they invest billions of dollars a year to influence politics including advancement of globalization and manipulation of the taxation system and then employ millions of sweat shop workers abroad. We allow our public government to tell us that the current rate of pollution is necessary for our economy so that we remain a dominant economic power, while our environmentalist tell us we are approaching a point at which we will have caused irreversible damage to our environment. A point at which hydrocarbons will cause a chain reaction in our ozone that will cause greenhouse gasses to continuously trap heat and literately cook our planet. So how about this war; is that just as necessary? Must we really exert our military control in Iraq killing thousands of people to insure our national interest of being a dominant economic power?
Though September 11th was a tragedy and a terrible waist of human life, it could be described as what it was intended for. A slap in the face meant to wake up the American people. Yet still most Americans are oblivious as to why the attack happened, most mistakenly relate it to the war in Iraq. In effect the...
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