I can’t tell you for sure if the Snowden incident actually happened, I can tell you only vague highlights (think headlights in a thick fog - at night), that you already know and I can also tell you whatever happened didn’t happen in the way it is being presented. Really now, where’d they get this guy? Was he cloned and trained just for this moment in time or lured off death row by the promise of a holiday in Hong Kong? The same applies to nearly everything, maybe all, that has been cultivated, packaged and consumed without having any factual information on what it is exactly that you are ingesting, as if reader content is just more pink slime, as if sand men running around the dunes carried out … well you know, as if that was the beginning of the end of happier days which it was not, impossibly so, from any angle. The point being we have become inured to these stories because we‘ve been around this block before, it’s the same old song lip synched by the same lame band, pseudo vocalists who appear to us as simple minded in that they repeat themselves ad nauseam. Have they never heard the story of the boy who cried wolf? However, each time the wolf snarls, it could very well be a real wolf, except, well, as I said, we’re inured. How long has this been going on? Surely you haven’t forgotten Choicepoint? So why are we being subjected again to threats upon our sacred secrecy policies that are not exactly secret at all? There could only be one explanation which is, apparently, we are not yet completely in lockstep with created reality. To the masterminds of heroic murder fiction and spy thrillers, we appear disinterested. YES! I realize its hard to grasp such a thing, but no one in their right mind wants to pick up the same book over and over again, unless it’s a Henry James or Chinua Achebe work of exquisite art where every word in every sentence conjures revelation and imagery both good and evil and invites ardent study in order to grasp the full poignancy and utter foolishness of the human species. Certainly this is yet another good reason to wear earplugs and blinders, the self-styled masters behind these phenomena have to be unable to hire better writers at any price and to any literate person, appear oblivious, which means they like it that way in the same way they like their Chateaubriand. Perhaps they fell for slick presentations from the slickest of the slick PR/Damage control/Crisis Management consultants all of whom turned out to be duds when what is perceived as an exciting, lucrative, all time best selling crisis by our death-match secret keepers is casually treated with recycled product messages such as Swine Flu at the Podium, Bin Laden Deepsix or Bush Drops From the Sky as Jesus in Flackwear. Besides, there is so much else going on, every day, wonderful and atrocious, we no longer have the time, interest or desire to freak out. It is a fact of life in our overproduced and counterproductive environment, the human being’s natural defense mechanism is activated to turn away from that which causes anguish, suffering, harm and pain. Our lives are local and in local territory there are unwritten rules of genial conformity tempered with much compassion largely adhered to with an exception here and there. Normal people don’t speak in acronyms or define whatever it is they’re pushing with MIC-speak. Normal people have no way to translate journalists’ dialogue filled with words and statements such as breached, intelligence and leak and the overused unclear, "It remains unclear due to ongoing..." The meaning behind this language is completely lost on vast numbers of citizens, it simply is not in their vernacular.
What is truth for locals are hourly wages, food on the table and their children. As much as I detest this city, its dirt and its ubiquitous evil, equally I love the diversity. From my observation, the US born white guy is the minority here. Of course, it is that very diversity that is the spinal cord buttressing the local monoculture of obscene wealth in wanton ignorance to the outside world and its ongoing disasters just as blood circulation is to the heart. As far as that monoculture is concerned why should they care either? They, too, are busy with their own version of local. They care only to the extent of returns on the dollar.
It seems the only people(?) that are having hissies over the current revival, Its Snowing in Snowden, are the producers and their agents. There is a point, of that we can be sure, why such events take place and are, as you have noticed, escalating and that point is M-o-n-e-y. You might disagree, but power and control are expensive products to maintain and to insure their viability into the far future.
If you haven’t been keeping up with Arthur Silber’s takes on this issue, you are missing the best thinking and writing available anywhere.
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Bulletin: The Trout Clan will shortly be making public, visually, their astounding recovery progress. It’s a mighty thing to behold. Stay tuned for their next post. I will be linking to them onblog to make sure all of you have the opportunity to see what hard work, love of the land and love of life itself can do. Residents of Tornado Alley and regions prone to wildland fire will be especially interested.
