The Lesson:
He who tells the stories defines the culture.
It matters not that the stories are pure fiction and blatant propaganda.
The most naïve and the most ignorant among us will take these stories as truth.
And, their numbers are disturbingly large.
But, they need not prevail. Nay, they MUST not prevail! They WILL NOT prevail!
Quoting Bill Whittle:
“I live a few miles from Santa Monica High School, in California. There, young men and women are taught that America is ‘a terrorist nation,’ ‘one of the worst regimes in history,’ that it’s twice-elected leader is ‘the son of the devil,’ and dictator of this ‘fascist’ country. Further, ‘patriotism’ is taught by dragging an American flag across the classroom floor, because the nation’s truest patriots, as we should know by now, are those who are most able to despise it.Click the image & read the rest:
This is only high school, remember: in college things get much, much worse.”
“The Russians say a fish rots from the head down. They ought to know. It may not be factually true that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, the saying has passed into common usage because the image [h]as the ring of truth to it: time and time again, the good and decent common people have manned the walls of the city, and have been ready to give their lives in its defense, only to discover too late that some silk-robed son of a bitch has snuck out of the palace at midnight and thrown open the gates to the barbarians outside.”
“I sit with others in darkened rooms, watching films like Redacted, Stop-Loss, and In the Valley of Elah, and see our brave young soldiers depicted as murderers, rapists, broken psychotics or ignorant dupes –visions foisted upon me by bitter and isolated millionaires such as Brian de Palma and Paul Haggis and all the rest.
I’ve been told this story in some form or another, every day of every week of the past 30 years of my life. It wasn’t always so.”
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