Ranting on Irrationalities

In 1938 a machine was invented and went in to production that would strip hemp fibers from the stalks quickly and efficiently. Hemp promised troubled farmers a cash crop that was easy to grow, naturally disease resistant and one that made little demands on the soil. The market for hemp was established and generating billions of dollars worldwide. The era is marked by the Depression and the dust-bowl effect (soil erosion caused by successive growths of cotton crops), and also the derisive term, Marijuana.

Marijuana is the Propaganda's moniker for hemp, however marijuana and hemp are two different things, but since Propaganda fails to make that distinction, the American public is introduced to the War on Drugs AND deprived of a cash crop that could save the fields and the farmers - not to mention the troubled economy - when it is illegalized in the U.S in the late '30's.

Propaganda is everything that is wrong about society - not just a word and a social institution - a compilation of distilled deceptions that is cumulative, insidious, pervasive, and toxic. Propaganda is about agendas of the elite and misinformation. Propaganda is supported by such entities as the United States government, Corporate Law, the Religious Right, the Moral Majority, political party politics in general, a host of publishing agencies and houses, big businesses which employ lobbyists and/or wield political power or influence, and monopolies of any kind. Propaganda is marked by the appearance of vast differences in status or social standing within its ranks. Propaganda is the enemy of the common man, common law and common sense. Propaganda tells us what is "normal" and represents an authority to be challenged above all else ...but alas, Propaganda is elusive because appearances are EVERYTHING, and Propaganda is nestled cozily in civil society.

Propaganda is, in fact, the pattern and the fabric of society. Propaganda encourages individuals to trade their perceptions, intuition and their conscience for a perspective that does not even closely mirror reality or even civility, for that matter. Propaganda encourages the ME generation, the X generation and basically divides and conquers social structures. By their very destruction, complex social structures like the extended family and the small town are replaced by the anonymous, the apathetic, the disenfranchised and the down-trodden. Support systems fail, and Propaganda is there to set a new standard and soothe the weary.

Hazing rituals are more humane than the process by which Propaganda asserts its agenda. And just what is that agenda ... one might wonder. With global climate change and the ecosystem on the threshold of failure, with increased demand of petroleum products surpassing the supply and becoming so expensive that the middle-class socioeconomic base can barely live with the financial and environmental cost and yet, at the same time most of these consumers could not fathom a world without plastic. This juxtaposition of core values has a lot of people caught up in a values versus convenience two-step that has them totally distracted from the action behind the scenes. This author thinks that is the agenda: keep 'em off balance and focused on the mundane.

Most people think that if they read the paper and watch the TV news well, they're informed. Yet, how many individuals are aware of what transpires in the U.S. Congress at any given time or date? Even though there is TV coverage of the daily proceedings in Congress, the news media fails to take much notice unless they catch someone picking their nose. Honestly, that's the only news I ever heard about the proceedings one year.

Thing is, party politics has polarized society and that should be illegal. And a lot of folks spend a lot of time imposing their moral judgement upon others, which simply makes them part of the problem, rather than the solution. Divide and conquer. Propaganda hard at work there ...

Kat signs off, and thanks you for reading.~

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