Is America in irreversible decline??

[ancianita]

89. I'm inclined to agree that it was the Sixties. Noam Chomsky reminds us that "historical amnesia"

opens the door to further aggression.

He says, in Power Systems: "Historical amnesia is a dangerous henomenon, not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity, but also because it lays the groundwork for cromes tht still lie ahead...that this year is the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's decision to launch the war against South Vietnam. Forgetting that this was the launching of one of the major atrocities in post-WWII history, he says, is a pretty severe example of our "historical amnesia."

I think our decline began with our leadership's immoral judgment, and slowly metastasized toward the rest of the MIC and their once-unknowing and innocent participants. It is hard for a people to learn that organized propaganda has duped them -- so much that entire jingoist cultures now abound -- but we have been duped.