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Re: Howard Zinn:You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, November 27 2011, 21:39:04 (UTC)
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...I went from this to an interview with Frank Zappa where Bill Novak challenged Zappa's contention that beginning with the Reagan years this country has been towards a Fascist theocracy....other than interrupting Zappa constantly and shaking his head as if to say, "boy are you stupid", Novak asked incredulously..."with all the permisivness i.n our society you REALLY think we're moving towards fascistic theocracy"????

Among other things his statement reveals the secret behind pop culture: Fascistic Theocrats NEED the appearance of permisivness, even decadence as a way of showing that they are "liberal"..and that Freedom exists.

There is permisveness, if there is, because there is great repression...which is also why the natural sense of "something is terribly wrong" gets chaneled into feel-good cults, pop culture, piercings, tatoos, sex, sex, sex and now legal drugs.

That avenue is the one THEY choose to allow Youth to wander down...it's easier because, for one, there's a lot of money to be made and you can always jail people and then make even more money. But it keeps people from asking the real questions....Fascists need to allow an outlet somewhere...this was learned from Hitler's mistakes....but Zappa had it right...he almost always did.



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