The ‘Summit Rumble’
Edwin L. Young, PhD
February 26, 2010
The summit rumble yesterday was another, made for TV’s commoner audiences, pseudo-political charade orchestrated by ghost publicists and funded behind the scenes by the huge corporate media owners and show sponsors.
Such stuff is made of this:
A. Republicans have two bases with diametrically opposed interests.
a. The small minority of Corprocrats and their elected henchmen
b. A huge ignorant, motley, easily roused rabble of rednecks, modern-day subservient serfs, anomic zealots, and vast numbers of unsuspectingly oppressed
B. Democrats have two bases with diametrically opposed interests
a. The small minority of Intellectuals with a dedication to the exploited majority
b. The party’s majority group of loyal democrats whose main interest is garnering campaign funds and getting reelected
Without this bizarre configuration of pugilistic, polarized groups, television would be stuck with mundane human-interest stories like four-year old child who saved Granma from the fire or the dog that found its way home from three-thousand miles away after five years.
Edwin L. Young, PhD
February 16, 2010
High in the atmosphere, flowing with the jet streams, small flocks of magnates, encircle ‘their’ globe. As if by silent acclamation, they long ago assumed their status as proprietors of humanity. They vault from one continent to another in sumptuous hermetic aerial projectiles, unacquainted with and insensible to their careworn, clueless, humble human tenants in dilapidating milieus beneath. They collude to determine the fate of the world like gods sketching versions predestination.
Trailing behind these magnates, like quirky characters adrift in a surreal tragicomedy, are their fledgling, opulent, amoral, feckless heirs to corporate thrones and dominions.
This is the true nature of our democracy.
Before landing, the magnates’ valets and coiffeuses prepare them for their camouflage charity balls’ exploitation expiation.
This is a major way that ‘free’ enterprise gets billed, touted, and successfully perpetrated. This is a way the oxymoron that free enterprise is “the greatest good for the greatest number” gets justified.
This just in, “In an ironic twist of fate, a cover-up was recently discovered concerning the body of Utilitarian Philosopher Jeremy Bentham, predecessor to John Stuart Mill, being found at the bottom of the ocean with a millstone about his neck, foreshadowing the great schism in early American politics and near lethal quality of contemporary American politics.”
Well, why can’t I manufacture news too?