Political Power in The 21st Century – Part 1

The 20th Century saw the development of mass propaganda on a huge scale with catastrophic results for humanity, the Earth and its creatures. The people of Germany, Japan, Italy, and other nations followed blindly behind their leaders into war without real knowledge of the circumstances. After reading Gore Vidal, I can likely add the USA to the list. Control of the media within their respective countries is the key to public acceptance of their warmongering. Yes, Goebbels and the others knew how to control the general population. The methods of propaganda have now been finely tuned even more.

And look what has happened – check out this short 2 minute video.

It took more than the neocons to accomplish this, but they bluntly declared, “We are the new Rome!” Well, I am certainly not an admirer of ancient Rome. And I do not want to be a part of a new version. Their “citizens” were not treated very well in the long run. American citizens are not being treated very well today either. In fact, we are mostly referred to as “consumers” rather than citizens. This is what we are expected to do. We should shop, not be politically active. You may remember the original Story of Stuff video. It pretty much describes our society.

Now using the power of money, propaganda is king here at home. It is king because most Americans accept the misinformation presented in mass media without question, and without realizing that the media has been neutralized by massive media mergers into huge and very few media monopolies. Politics becomes controlled through monopolies, shutting out the voices of average folks and giving practically limitless political power to the mega-corporations. Check out the new video The Story of Citizens United, made by the Story of Stuff production team in cooperation with Public Citizen.

Years ago I did a series of articles on what I saw as “the failures of capitalism” on E-The People. One was on electronics which their Story of Electronics pretty much is in agreement.

Are you outraged by what these videos reveal? You should be!

What are we going to do to stop this abuse of humanity and the world? For me, I have the feeling that this will develop into a series also.