[PEN-L:30678] Re: popular support (was: Momentum?)

[Dan Scanlan <dscanlan@xxxxxxx>]

> I wrote:
> > how are we going to stop the corporations without some sort of
> > popular support?
>
> Dan:
> The (collective) brain of the populus has been mushed out by
> mainstream media and is now irrelevant.
>
> Jim: It's true that people have, in many ways, been brain-washed.
> But if the "public" isn't involved in changing the _status quo_, how
> are you going to do it for them? using a small elite or vanguard
> party? a self-selected group of people who know the Truth? engaging
> in "propaganda of the deed"?


I was flippant. I mean to say (and admittedly didn't say) that folks
who depend on mainstream media haven't much content (from the media)
with which to foster critical thought. There's no point in getting at
them that way and whether they "approve" or not of tactics of peace
demonstrators is wholly irrelevant -- they're playing with a marked
deck.

It's up to the peace movement to knock the populace upside the head
in other ways -- music, art, street theater, jokesters, massive
rallies that can't be ignored, leafletting cars at K-Mart, and so on,
so that they begin to question the corporate media.



> Dan quotes:
> "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
> revolutionary act." George Orwell
>
> Jim: what's the point of telling the truth if peoples' brains have
> been "mushed out"?


Here, I quote one of my own songs, "Showdown Comin'"....

Disinformation is really the same
As dat information the newsman claim;
And dat information keeps the news a game,
For me -- and you, too.

Cheers,

Dan Scanlan



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"During times of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

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