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The Crisis of the Now: Distracted and Diverted from the Ever-Encroaching Police State
by John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk: culture-death is a clear possibility.”—Author Neil Postman
Caught up in the spectacle of the forthcoming 2016 presidential elections, Americans (never very good when it comes to long-term memory) have not only largely forgotten last year’s hullabaloo over militarized police, police shootings of unarmed citizens, asset forfeiture schemes, and government surveillance but are also generally foggy about everything that has happened since.
Then again, so much is happening on a daily basis that it’s understandable if the average American has a hard time keeping up with and remembering all of the “events,” manufactured or otherwise, which occur like clockwork and keep us distracted, deluded, amused, and insulated from reality while the government continues to amass more power and authority over the citizenry.
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Source: http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/2015/09/the-crisis-of-the-now-distracted-and-diverted-from-the-ever-encroaching-police-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-crisis-of-the-now-distracted-and-diverted-from-the-ever-encroaching-p
