Walmart pressing felony charges against employee who ate ‘multiple’ Oreo cookies

[Fantastic Anarchist]

124. Antonio Gramsci has written about this phenomon.

Which has grown invasive and pervasive in American culture. I have family in France, and let me tell ya, no one protests like the French! In France, the government fears the people, here people fear the government.

I have read some of the threads that you've mentioned. I've also read the Drone Assassination apologia. Is there hope? I don't know. We're somewhere between Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World." The propaganda is so subtle, and so sophisticated that most people (those who haven't read Zinn) are not aware that they are not free. They are also so comforted by luxuries and other such diversions, that they acquiesce to what the government will do in our name, and to the new realities (the so called New Normal). It's frustrating. We, generally, have become so servile to authority, that we really have trouble thinking for ourselves (collectively and individually).

The American Dream is that of subservience and obedience - and it has been that way since the founding of this nation.

It's great to have this conversation with you.