The good news is that as America goes into captivity it is the same captivity as before, if digitalized and more complete. The same apparatchiks will apologize for it as before, Tucker Carlson Quisling, as in all the think tanks as before, will reeducate the 73 million, but need not that many, 3% will do, the rest will come along as always with a little threat. Any pal needs antagonists and protagonists so there is more and more reason to take Snowden and Greenwald as plants of the intelligence services they repeat as players for the ultimate goal of the play, which in Greek tragedy was catharsis, in modern terms control, emotional ripsaw of the audience to palify, pacify, viz. confuse them. What happened to Assange's release of Podesta's emails, nothing, etc.
The basis of American middle class exceptionalism was merely the exhaustion of the gene jewels of the ruling class who became effete, needed more workers, so from the 60's all kinds of middle and lower class people got PhDs and trained among the best but not in attempts to recreate the world or even document it. They who were got up from poverty held the gene like Geoffrey Hartman's maternal grandfather David Hartmann, a rabbi unknown to his family in the diaspora, a doctorate in Oriental studies on the midrashim of the Book of Ruth, a central messianic text. You have to go back to spot the obvious.
But the plain truth is I knew some of these people, went to school with them so to speak and the only one I knew who had the glimmer of a mind I have not talked to since, so that would tell what needs to be told. No relationships, no class, no roots, dropped off by spaceship, no good to anybody either or to themselves, unless they stumble as I did into the lucrative situation of the underclass to recite poetry and attend faculty meetings a while. You can get their dissertations from Ann Arbor. In a digital identity male or female neither or both online, whatever they say can imitate with pics too, not unlike being trans by declaration, or voting by mass ballot with no name or address recognition. One cog leads another down the brick road, not that we have brick or cobbles like Prague, but good asphalt patched and covered, swept and cleaned these expanses of paving like people who didn't belong anywhere and were from there when they finished and went back to it, immune to the ramblings of subconscious arbors and bloody noses, egg trucks and long walks around the reservoirs of sewage plants. The more they talk and excuse their arguments with qualifications and the more they accuse any of their sins, literately the longer they talk the more they dissipate, wear out like rags dissolving in the driveway, bleached in the sun, fibers coming apart of itself. And these are the pot apologists of humanity, so called, who argue for freedom of thought. The lament of Glenn Greenwald, Joe Rogan, Alex Jones et al that have been censored, that the liberal value of free speech compromised by "higher' values is bogus, is all whine and cry of distraction meant to deflect the reality that it is always and will always be the case that such is true. So live with it, which means go around it. The mass mind has always been controlled in this desperate search for integrity, authenticity.
