I know, I know. I probably sound like a broken record. But Somerby goes for the jugular today, and I support what he’s been doing all these years. People must understand why this country has so many intractable problems. At the root it’s because the world of ideas, the news, journalism, the process of understanding issues and picking our leaders has been completely corrupted. We don’t have good information, and therefore we make lousy decisions. It so happens that these lousy decisions benefit certain people, and those people have made a ton of money, so they want to help us make more lousy decisions. It’s good for business, baby.
Eventually the system will grind to a halt, collapsing under it’s own weight. I think we’re there now, or nearly there anyway. But it would be nice if, just before we take the spectacular dive, a bunch of people in this country figure out what the hell just happened here. Like at the end of the movie The Usual Suspects, when the detective figures out that the limping, simpering Kevin Spacey is really the ruthless killer Kaiser Sosi, and his mind goes through a rapid flash-back sequence? Remember that? He figures out about thirty seconds too late that he got played.
