UNCLE TOM 2006 | 2006-11-17
If the media establishment has everything under complete control, why isn't every television series a hit? If the real world looked anything like the way the "Oh, God, All is Lost!" crowd describes it, the media would not waste billions on music that doesn't sell and shows that don't last or giant-budget movies that bomb.
Open suppression of discussion would not be necessary if whatever group it is had absolute control over all aspects of our thought. White males had the kind of power in the 1920s that no one could imagine ever failing. But one generation of cowardly morons destroyed all that.
The greatest single resource any oppressor has is the Uncle Tom. Like the "Christian" conservatives, old Uncle Tom said dat there was no joy in dis world, but that didn't matter because De Lawd would come for him. At one populist protest I heard a preacher call for George Wallace for president, and then say that we HAD to lose in THIS world because we could only win in the NEXT.
With friends like that ...
Even the West Point textbook on military history pointed out that the main thing in a battle os not the destruction of pphysical resources. Many an army has been chased off by a force half or a tenth of its size. Said the textbook, "An army is defeated when it is CONVINCED it is beaten."
There are no inevitables in this world.
The greatest asset one side has is not the soldiers in its own ranks, but the defeatists among the enemy.