Rabbit Hole by Don Cooper
(2009-11-15 at 17:39:46 )

Rabbit Hole by Don Cooper

Will everyone please rise for the playing of the national anthem of the
Unites States of America:

One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small, and the ones that
mother gives you do not do anything at all. Go ask Alice, when she is 10
feet tall…

As Morpheus said to Neo: We live in an imaginary state. A state in which
people have been indoctrinated to such a degree that they are no longer
able to discern reality from make believe. A culture that is so socially
numb and easily pliable that words like Misspoke and Misstated have
replaced the word Lied; a culture where a person can be asked a yes or no
question and speak for 5 minutes and never answer the question and yet
everyone believes that somehow he did; a culture where a black person can
not be referred to as black; a 5 foot 100-lb woman can not be referred to
as smaller and weaker than a 6 foot 6 inch 250-lb man; a culture where
the wife of a president is considered able to lead a nation for no reason
other than she was the wife of a president and ignoring that her version
of a story is given more credence than actual video footage; a culture
where one can be sued if they do not hire someone even if they are
unqualified for the job; a culture where people can be arrested, booked
and thrown in jail for driving a car and feel as though somehow they
deserve it.

There is an entire generation or two of people that are so anesthetized
that they condone the invasion and destruction of sovereign third-world
countries that could not possibly pose a threat to our national security
whatsoever and the killing of innocent men, women, children in the
process: Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan and yet practically bring the
country to a standstill for the death of 13 U.S. soldiers in Texas.
When did we go to war with Pakistan?

We are a society of people who have gone down the rabbit hole with the
Mad Hatter and March Hare and believe that somehow contrary to basic
mathematical laws like one plus one equals two the economy can be
improved by taking money from one person and giving it to another or by
dropping it from a helicopter. Given their drunken social state, it
makes perfect sense to them.

We live in a society where ones celebrity equates to ability; where a
pretty face, gender or ethnic background means more than character,
integrity, ability and courage; where a political man, morally,
professionally and personally disgraced, can lecture at Harvards school
of ethics and a political woman known for lying during campaign trips and
elsewhere can be appointed to one of our countries highest posts:
Secretary of State.

A society in which a man wins an international peace award, not for his
peace efforts, but rather for a PowerPoint presentation about a
theoretical and controversial environmental condition or by a man who,
not only did not exhibit any of the required characteristics of the award,
but in fact exhibited exactly the opposite by sending American men and
women into war zones to do his dirty work. It will be a glorious day when
leaders have to fight their own battles. I wonder how quick they would
be to go to War Then.

We live in a society of political figures who are so insecure with who
they are that they use fake Las Vegas type names in an attempt to seem
more potent than they really are. Names like: John McCain the maverick,
Ted Kennedy the Lion, Sarah Palin the rogue. The rogue? Can anyone think
of a word that describes Palin any less? Well considering the Rogue quit
her elected position in order to promote her own celebrity I would like
to describe her with the word quitter. Now That is a woman we want
leading a nation; a woman who exhibits such loyalty and perseverance.
What is going to happen if she breaks a nail as president? Will she
invade Thailand? Of course like everyone who is stoned, some might get
emotional about my description of the Alaskan mutant, but that is to be
expected from those whose mental state is altered.

We have people around the world including our biggest financier, China
laughing at our governments highest officials when they try to sell them
the same bullshit the inebriated Americans buy and yet the Drugged
Continue To Believe.

Our leadership does not even try to hide their contempt for the rule of
law anymore because they know that a Mentally Impaired Electorate Will
Not Complain just as long as They Keep Bringing The High.

Every election cycle it is the same people on the dance card and nobody
says anything. They admittedly vote for the Lesser of Two Evils every
four years and yet they continue to vote for the Lesser of Two Evils
without it ever hitting them upside the head that the lesser of two evils
is still an evil. Being in Their Euphoric State of Social Silliness,
How Could They Ever Notice?

So this is the society in which we sober folks live and we must
continually keep an eye on the addicts, who are in fact the majority, in
order to make sure they do not affect us to the detriment of our lives.
We must constantly try to convince them to seek help; to enroll in rehab
because the problem starts with them. Delusion is real and the truth will
set them free. It is scary to know the truth because one can never go
back to the Ignorant Bliss From Which One Came. Let us hope the truth
does it before depression, hyperinflation and bread lines or worse do it.

November 14, 2009

Don Cooper is a Florida native, Navy veteran, economist, and editor of
the daily non-partisan column Qaoss.com.

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