The Killing Games by Angie Riedel

Author:Angie Riedel [Riedel, Angie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paul Bondarovski
Published: 2016-08-01T22:00:00+00:00

Friday, June 6, 2008.

The Purveyors of Doctrine are Inside Your Head

Everybody loves to believe that their thoughts and feelings, their perspectives and judgments are solely their own. We truly believe that our thoughts and feelings about everything come from inside our own heads, concluded by virtue of our own intelligent analysis, and are certainly not in any way influenced by outside attempts to force those conclusions to come to us by design. We dismiss those who tell us that we are all submerged in a literal sea of influence and manipulation, claiming that we are much too smart to be fooled by such obvious ploys. Yet, the evidence is overwhelming that we are indoctrinated to the point of passive servitude.

We have come to accept the unacceptable as normal, so used to being used and abused, pushed around and disrespected, gouged, lied to, cheated, predated upon and harassed by corporations and government alike, that we simply tense up for the beatings when they come, and then, battered, we go on with our day as usual. We no longer expect a fair shake. This is the new norm.

The insults and rip-offs straddle the whole spectrum of American life. Who among us hasn’t been blatantly ripped off by a company? Who hasn’t been gouged by a greedy bank? Who hasn’t been outraged by the disrespect we’re shown when we call for customer service and the companies don’t even pretend to be interested in doing the right thing?

The reality is that if you’re ready to lay your money down somewhere, there is always a living breathing human being ready to take your money. But after the sale there is no one around and no one who cares. There is no one ready and waiting to assist you with a problem you were handed along with your shoddy imported product. When we call companies or even our own local government offices, it is increasingly rare that our calls will be answered by a living, breathing human being who’s job it is to actually help us with something. Getting the run-around is the new norm. We no longer expect satisfaction when we lay our money down. We know better.

The power has been transferred from the people to wealthy special interests, and business has infiltrated government to the extent that they are one and the same. All of the common sense restrictions that kept companies from becoming voracious, rampaging beasts have been erased from the books, and now we are regularly being lied to, cheated, used and abused at the will of big business and big institutions and are unable to defend ourselves. Our government calls it deregulation and free enterprise. It’s nothing of the kind. It’s a criminal smorgasbord, and we’re someone else’s free lunch.

We’ve come to know that our democracy is a sham and that voting is a hollow and pointless exercise. We neither choose the candidates or what they’ll do when they’re elected, and those who we elect are increasingly disinterested in doing the right thing for us or doing the right thing at all.

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