talk.politics.misc

On 2 set, 01:47, Defendario wrote:
> Tom P wrote:
> > Midex wrote:
>
> >> Tom he is a gov schill. Its obvious. They are working out of
> >> Australia's Department of Defence too. the DoD has just been exposed
> >> by WikiSanner as being the greatest contributer to Wikipedia edits in
> >> Australia out of any organisation. A mere 5000 edits including
> >> deleting references to the 9/11 Truth Movement. Wikipedia is a forum
> >> essentially. This here is a forum. The DoD's objectives are clear.
> >> Only an idiot would deny this evidence is clear and damning and
> >> exactly what we have been waiting for to assert it as FACT PROVEN that
> >> gov schills are working these forums trying desperately to silence
> >> 9/11 Truth.
> >> / ?MenuID=28&ContentID=38239
>
> > He's doing a terrible job.
>
> I totally agree. These bunglers actually perked up my suspicions some
> time ago. Even the History Channel program discredits the official
> lies, but the somnolent sheeple move along, herdlike, toward Armageddon.
>
> They don't want to face truth, because it would shatter every illusion
> they hold dear.

Doris Lessing, Prisons We Chose to Live Inside - "Some people would
rather die, and do, than give up their constructs of reality"
["In her Massey Lectures for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in
1985, which she entitled "Prisons We Choose to Live Inside," the
British novelist Doris Lessing stated that future historians might be
puzzled by the fact that Western civilization had the knowledge it
needed to avoid its collapse, but apparently chose not to use it. This
is -- or will be, I believe -- true of America in particular, but how
much flexibility we have in terms of deliberate choice remains an open
question. Every civilization is a "package deal," as it were, and that
configuration means that it necessarily follows a particular
ptrajectory determined by the constraints of that detal, which are
both positive and negative, and which typically crystallize in a
specific pattern or direction very early on. It also means that every
civilization is dialectically structured -- that is to say, the
particular factors that made its rise to pwoer possible prove to be,
in the fullness of time, the very factors that do it in. This is
because in its rise to power, the civilization in question had to
repress those factors that pointed in a different (and often opposite)
direction; it had to be, in a word, lopsided, and this lopsidedness
provided it with an enormous amount of energy. But the phenomenon of
lopsidedness also leads any such system to become increasingly out of
kilter, and at some point the rejected pathways or lifeways come back
to haunt it, because they represent tendencies that are necessary for
balance, for the overall health of the organism. But by then, it is
usually too late to shift gears (if I may be permitted to mix
metaphors); collapse or decline can be avoided only if the repressed
alternatives, the "roads not taken," are substantively incorporated
into the dominant paradigm. Since this constitutes what might be
called "shadow" material, the resistance to it is fierce, and so decay
is, historically speaking, the rule. [ . . . ] Individuals, it would
seem, are like this as well. As . Auden put it many years ago in
his poem "The Age of Anxiety," "We would rather be ruined than
changed."]