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Originally posted by ozzymandius
TheKing, I don't blame you. It is easy to be spoonfed something and simply live by it and I don't mean that in a condascending manner. I just went along with the flow for years in the same way. It takes effort and courage to want to delve into uncomfortable subjects at a deeper level.
History is replete with examples of entire populations that simply believed the spoonfeeding from the powers that be. From the rule of the Caesars to kings and queens, to Hitler and Stalin. And many of those same societies thus sowed the seeds of their own destruction. It was not too long ago that the Soviet empire collapsed under the weight of its own propaganda. Millions of people in that country woke up one day and wondered what the hell happened? Where did their society go? They sleepwalked to a disaster.
Today a similar thing is happening in the US. We are being spoonfed and coralled into a series of wars that may last a generation or more. The US is positioning itself to take over all the major oil supplies in the world, from Iraq and Saudi Arabia to Venezuala to Colombia and even in the Caspian sea. Great for us, right? As long as we can still drive our SUVs and eat our Big Macs. That's what I used to think. But the writing in on the wall. History dictates that whenever one country blatantly tries to take over the resources of the world, other countries band together and push back. When that really happens, it won't be pretty.
I for one don't want to wake up one day and ask "Where did my great country go? How did we fall from the world's only superpower to just another 3rd world, bombed out disaster?".
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I am not spoon fed. I read virtually everything including the conspiracy theories and I draw my own conlcusions and though I haven't gone over it in detail, the link that you posted, thus far, contains nothing new. I will spend some more time there, but it is old stuff really. I have already formed an opinion, the Authors 1st possibility. The government blew it from the ground floor to the top floor. He prefers his third possibility. I don't. As far as your scenario for the future of your country. If history repeats itself we will fall from power at some point in time, but sleep soundly because it will not happen in your lifetime.