Watching Trump's Las Vegas rant, I wondered how so many people -- about 40% of the electorate -- can be so benighted as to "buy into" Trump's locked-down delusional system. https://www.msn.com/
(Nicolle Wallace was a top level Republican operative who "handled" Sarah Palin during her vice-presidential campaign alongside John McCain.)
I conclude that the roots of such benightedness are twofold: economic and religious.
Firstly, I am all in favor of responsible Capitalism, but I am steadfastly opposed to the kind of Cowboy Capitalism whose magnates (Trump among them) would trash the biosphere to make another buck they don't need... nor could they spend their death-dealing profit in saecula saeculorum.
Sometime around Reagan and his "Me Generation," Capitalism completed the transmutation of "Responsible Citizens" into "Consumer Units," Pavlovian people finally conditioned to "spend money they didn't have, to buy things they didn't want, to impress people they didn't like."
And so, what remained inside Consumer Units' psyches was a mindless quest for "stuff, more stuff and where the hell am I going to store the stuff?"
Hyperbole aside, it is "plain-as-potatoes" (to borrow Chesterton's phrase) that Capitalism has fashioned a fantasy-driven mindset that makes people focus on purchasable pleasures in their never-ending -- and everlastingly bogus -- attempts to fill The Bottomless Void (where "joy" used to dwell) with a ceaseless torrent of what is referred to in the Roman Church's Easter Vigil mass as "the glamour of Satan." (God, I love that phrase!)
The heresy in all this --- and it is useful to keep in mind that "heresy is falsehood masquerading as truth" --- is the intrinsically erroneous belief that if we accumulate enough pleasures, they will - like assembling a mosaic - eventually devise a psycho-spiritual matrix that will make sense, and even make us happy. (The same heresy pertains to whoremongers Malignant Messiah who is convinced that the purchase-of-sex is better than staying home with wife, Melania, while she recovers from giving birth to baby Baron."
Sadly - and in Trump's case, tragically - we are not made increasingly happy, but increasingly craven, remaking ourselves in the image of other deluded addicts for whom the false promise of "the next hit" comes down to "just one more" consumer good.
Capitalism Is America (And The World's) Foremost Propellant Of Moral And Environmental Degradation (A Propellant That "The Deep State" Renders Nearly Invisible)
Eisenhower Reveals THE DEEP STATE: Ike's Farewell Address Televised From The Oval Office Sounds The Alarm That The "Military-Industrial Complex" Comprises The Greatest Threat To American Democracy By Making Us A Murderous Corporatocracy
Founding Fathers' Profit-Sharing Remedy For Inequality. (Even Ronald Reagan Likes It!)
The History Of Corporations: The Founding Fathers, Ronald Reagan And Elizabeth Warren Converge On Stakeholder Capitalism - "Get Back To Where You Once Belonged, America!"
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Now, we come to Trumpista "religion" -- which in its current manifestation is called "conservative" "Christianity," an ersatz simulacrum of religion which feeds on fantastical and/or miraculous claims whose upshot is to establish a template for people to interpret any Goddamn fiction as Truth.
"Aggressive Ignorance And Christianity's Failure To Champion Truth"
Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
The Big Lie And Conservative Christianity's Unshakeable Belief That The Bible Is Inerrantly True
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Religion, Perfectionism, Savonarola and The Pending Apocalypse of The Republican Party (This Post Was Written In 2012)
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I will close with an instructive, and highly-engaging, animation.
A Brilliant Animation About German Lutheran Pastor Deitrich Bonhoeffer (Hung For His Role In A Plot Against Hitler) Who Concluded That 'Stupidity Is More Difficult To Remedy Than Malice'
Pax et amor
Alan
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