Matrix Code - Are you a terrorist?

The war on terrorism, the war on drugs, the war on poverty. All illusions to silence the masses. Terrorism? Mere perspective. The Yankees, I believe they were called, were seen as terrorists in England in the colonial days. Drugs? What are and are not legal drugs? View probation, how did that effect the consumption of alcohol (a drug)? How does the government condemning the use of anything aid society? Is it the place of the government to protect us from each and every threat? Is the war on drugs in a nation that professes to be the brightest beacon for democracy (while the US is not even a democracy but a quite distinct form of government) and freedom not a bit... odd? War against poverty? A Capitalists anathema. Let us face our demons and call it by their names. Capitalism created poverty, but it also created the riches of the world. Distribute the money of all the millionaires and billionaires in the world, and everyone gets about 1000 dollars. What good will that do?

George Orwell 'predicted' in his novel 1984 the decay of words. How they would be twisted to mean something completely out of purpose. We now see 'terrorists' as evil. We now see Islam as something negativem and when we think about Iraq/Iran/Syria/North Korea, in many ways our opponents, we think about death, war, destruction. In fact, our perhaps economical opponent, China, is viewed as an evil.

We look at the past, and we laugh at how foolish and how archaic the ways of our ancestors were, how they turned called their enemies evil. If we watch the disney cartoons from the WW2 period, we'll laugh at the obvious propaganda. What we don't laugh at, or not in that context, are the various osama bin laden flash videos, or the news slowly seeping through the 'objective press' about the evil muslim population.

Granted, some of it is founded. The Islam, it's culture, is backward from a sociological point of view. Does that make us superior? I believe not. I believe the sense of superiority stems from the primary religious thought. To be divine. We want to have god on our side, and thus we imagine our enemies evil, weak and unworthy of life.

Nietzsche, in one of his aphorisms wrote that people often envied prophets for their gifts. He stated that this was out of ignorance. When monkeys feel the thunder coming, they do not feel an approaching enemy, they feel the pain from that thunder in their bodies. And he is correct for the prophetic counterparts as well, I think. Of course, Nietzsche does not refer to supernatural prophets, but to people like himself and Karl Marx, who from a certain perspective reason what will be a likely outcome, and than attempt to influence that outcome for the, what they view as, better.

There are few things as disturbing as seeing what those in power are capable of, seeing what they are doing, seeing what it will lead to, and seeing that those with the collective power to change it are to programmed into a sheep-like state that they are unable to change their path. Do you know how to wake them up, if you will forgive me referencing to Tolkien, discussing the Ents waking up, an allegory for mankind waking up and protecting nature?

Mr U