"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Treating People Like Garbage
At the end of the Cold War, the American people had a grand opportunity — to dismantle the enormous military-intelligence empire that had been grafted onto our constitutional order after World War II. It would have made sense. This enormous imperialist apparatus was ostensibly brought into existence to fight the Cold War against the Soviet Union, which had been America’s World War II partner and ally. Since the Cold War was now over, there was no reason for keeping this massive Cold War military-intelligence empire in existence.
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Actually, I think that sometimes the Empire treats garbage more respectfully and more carefully than it treats living people. It is just another symptom of its growing psychological chasm between itself and sane, rational civilization.