Excerpt from article by Chris Hedges at Truthdig
- The idiots take over in the final days of crumbling civilizations.
- Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation.
- Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for the rich and cutting social service programs for the poor, and project economic growth on the basis of myth.
- Idiot industrialists poison the water, the soil and the air, slash jobs and depress wages.
- Idiot bankers gamble on self-created financial bubbles and impose crippling debt peonage on the citizens.
- Idiot journalists and public intellectuals pretend despotism is democracy.
- Idiot intelligence operatives orchestrate the overthrow of foreign governments to create lawless enclaves that give rise to enraged fanatics.
- Idiot professors, “experts” and “specialists” busy themselves with unintelligible jargon and arcane theory that buttresses the policies of the rulers.
- Idiot entertainers and producers create lurid spectacles of sex, gore and fantasy.
This is a familiar checklist for extinction. We are ticking off every item on it.
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