By Michael Smith (Veshengro)
“If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Malcolm X
While one may agree or disagree on occasion with Malcolm X and his philosophy one can but say that he was very prophetic in this statement for sure.
In the years since he made that statement his vision has, in this regards, I am afraid to say, very much come true and this on almost all, if not indeed all, levels.
The fact is that we, all of us, have not been careful enough and allowed the media, aided and abetted by our governments, to do just that to us all. Namely to make us believe that the bad guys are the good guys and the oppressed are the bad guys.
In ancient Rome they kept the people quiet with “Bread & Circuses” and in the modern world with consumer goods and TV and other media that dull our senses and permit them to get on with what they are doing to further enslave us all.
In the modern world the exploiter, such as the banks, are being made out to be the good guys while the protesters, even if peaceful, are seen as terrorists almost by the police, which act for the establishment, but are but slaves to it in the same way as each and every one of us.
He know wishes to live independently and he who wants to have peace and justice is made out to be the enemy while the warmongers and exploiters are painted in rosy colors; well, most of the time.
Modern Hippies, New Age Travellers and Gypsies are persecuted because they would like to live somewhat outside the mainstream of society and, in order to evict a settlement of Irish Travellers a former scrap yard became, for years, in the messages from the council and the media “former greenbelt land”. Only when council had finally gotten the go-ahead for an eviction the media was allowed to mention the fact that the entire settlement is on a former scrap yard and since when a scrap yard, a business, is greenbelt land, beats me and should beat everyone else as well.
Anyone who is not willing to be part of the sheeple is seen as a suspicious character and the authorities engage the security services to spy one them. The media has managed to do just of which Malcolm X had warned us; they have turned the people against the oppressed and made them love those that do the oppressing.
The world has gone mad...
© 2011
