We did it before and we can do it
again/And we will do it again . . .
what exactly was it
we were doing?
which side
was singing?
as Orwell essayed in ’43 after
the Spanish Civil War about the fascist regimes in Spain and Italy and
Germany as Arendt elaborated in her ’51 The Origins of
Totalitarianism about Hitler and Stalin as Anderson quoted in his 2017 Fantasyland:
How America Went Haywire as he read in Arendts
Origins during the torture heyday of junior Bushs administration:
“A mixture of gullibility and cynicism have
been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday
phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses
had reached a point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and
nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true . . .
Mass propaganda discovered that its audiences was ready at all times to believe
the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being
deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian
mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption
that under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic
statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof
of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism, instead of deserting
the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all
along that the statement was a lie and would admire their leaders for their
superior tactical cleverness.”
when he first caught a whiff of
Bushhis first whiff of cuntDrumpf while he
was familiar with Dick Robertson and his Orchestras 1941 recording his Dad
owned the Decca 78 rpm record what played
in his head was The Whos Won’t Be Fooled Again
he didnt buy swill
he knew the rank difference
between it versus fact and truth
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