Reply #95: Something about Naomi Klein

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Have you read her book, Shock Doctrine?

I didn't think so.

She spent a good piece of her life studying and documenting -- with footnotes like you wouldn't believe -- the presence and advance of fascism in our hemisphere and around the world and how TPTB use Shock as a canvas on which to paint their various oppressions. I started to read it but could only get so far -- maybe 1/3 of the way. I'll pick it up again some day when I get the strength to do so. It's not an easy read.

But I can say this about it, without equivocation:

NO ONE can adequately understand what we are facing in this country and the world without getting a pretty good grounding in what she talks about and reveals in her book. It's not the only place to get this "education," but it's a very good and concentrated place to get it quick.

Something happens to you when you invest yourself that thoroughly -- or even far less thoroughly -- in a particular area of study in order to write a book. You develop a feel, a 6th sense, for what is going on. Maybe you plug in to the collective unconsciousness or something, I dunno. But it doesn't matter. What matters is that as other things unfold, you pick up on the clues very quickly and see things that will take others much longer to see and understand. You get it, and you can sound like a prophet because you KNOW tha patterns, you KNOW where this leads, you KNOW that every time anything like this has ever happened before, it's meant such-and-such.

Had this information about DHS involvement come from a source that was not known to me to be as credible as Naomi Wolf (despite the strenous but laughable efforts to discredit her in this thread), I'd have taken it with much more a grain of salt.

She COULD turn out to be wrong, I suppose. But even though I'm not a betting woman, I'd lay heavy odds in her favor in a heartbeat.

You can choose to continue to hold to your view of things, or you can educate yourself a bit and a good place -- but not the only place -- to start might be with Wolf's book. You could certainly do worse.

The world is not as you think it. We can only make it better if we understand how it REALLY is, no matter how hard that is to look at, truly see, and accept. When I say it's gut-wrenching, that's no exaggeration. Those who prefer a more polyanna-ish view of the world -- including various parts and pieces of this administration -- only make it harder to make the difference we so need to make.