Paradise Lost – A Synopsis of the American Nightmare

2008, Florida, Smalltown USA

It is 8 AM and I have logged onto the internet to infowars.com to take in another few hours of hysteria. Some would say, “Oh, the sky’s falling, is it?” Well, without heed I gobble up the goodies as on this day in particular my personal hero was on the show. David Icke.

Some of you may have no idea what David Icke is all about. Well, let’s just call him a conscientious objecter (much like myself). As of the time of this writing, David Icke is currently running for election in the Brittish Parliament. “How could a silly old Brittish sod capture the imagination of an American youth?”, you might ask. Quite simple, my dear reader. By standing up to authority and pushing back against a corrupt system meant to enslave us one and all. So, here I sit…a 27 year old American male with a degree in Web Design Services listening to an ex-brittish football star gone conspiracy theorist waxing intellectual on the ins and outs of the oligarchical powers that be and what’s more…finding a home in the veritable mess of information.

But why is it so easy for me (or anyone for that matter) to take a stance of anti-establishment when all of our lives we are programmed to believe that the establishment is there to protect and serve us all? Well, it might have a little something to do with the fact that we were ever programmed at all. Think about it. From the tender age of 5 (6 depending on your birthday) we were ripped from the loving arms of our family and sent to “schools” (The Public Fool System Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Croft would call it) and we are indoctrinated into being subservient to the very people who ripped us from our family. This has all the earmarks of a cult. One of the ways in which cults are able to control their subjects is by alienating them from their family and coercing them into believing that the cult is their new family and will take care of them and that if they only believe what the cult tells them, that they will prosper whereas if they do not then they will fall into despair and ruin. So, the powers that be ensnare us at such tender young ages to introduce (more poignantly indoctrinate) us to the program. Thus, having alienated us from those who are meant to protect us from harm and stand up for our rights we were effectively left to our own limited wits and merits to defend ourselves against adults who were indoctrinated successfully long before us. Think of the hypocrisy…We are made to swear undying fealty to a flag that represents a country which has made clear the seperation of church and state and in the very oath we swear there is a reference to that country being “under God”. That doesn’t seem to be a very independent stance on the subject. Now, I personally do believe in God, but let’s assume for a second that I were an athiest. My logic for being an athiest may be that when asked “Why doesn’t God answer the prayers of the starving children of the world for food?” the answer might again logically be that “God is imaginary, hence he cannot answer prayers because he doesn’t exist.” Of course people can argue this until they are blue in the face, but it’s very sound reasoning. God may well be imaginary as there is no real proof of his existence. And so, this all makes a case for there being a contrived attempt at mentally doping the masses with patriotism and religeon in one mind-numbing package. How can one be of sound reasoning and rationalize swearing allegiance to a country that believes in a make-believe man in the sky who watches us at all hours of the day and is preparing to either send us to the penultimate torture factory (Hell) or the penultimate Playboy mansion (Heaven) upon our time of death? This all beggars belief if you are an athiest. In a country that insists on being percieved as free from the tyranny of religious persecution yet insists as dilligently on indoctrinating us into a state religion it is quite understandable that there would be dissent. It’s blatant hypocrisy. And so, we have gone back to the beginning to find the why of the situation. Why do people dissent? It is because at some point, usually in adulthood, we realize that we’ve been bamboozled along the way. We then begin to see that the American Dream that we’ve been spoonfed since childhood is turning into an outright nightmare with no escape.