Gore Vidal has a piece on Robert Scheer’s new web site, TruthDig:
An excerpt:
Not since the glory days of Watergate and Nixon’s Luciferian fall has there been so much written about the dogged deceits and creative criminalities of our rulers. We have also come to a point in this dark age where there is not only no hero in view but no alternative road unblocked. We are trapped terribly in a now that few foresaw and even fewer can define despite a swarm of books and pamphlets like the vast cloud of locusts which dined on China in that ’30s movie “The Good Earth.”
I have read many of these descriptions of our fallen estate, looking for one that best describes in plain English how we got to this now and where we appear to be headed once our good Earth has been consumed and only Rapture is left to whisk aloft the Faithful. Meanwhile, the rest of us can learn quite a lot from “Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire” by Morris Berman, a professor of sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
There’s also a nice photo of the dipshit-in-chief and Vice President Evil.
For my money the most important quote is “The opposite of the Enlightenment, of course, is tribalism, groupthink; and more and more, this is the direction in which the United States is going”
I find that I’ve been using the word “tribalism” a lot in my own conversations because I beleive it to be the driving force that’s powering the rest of this dangerous decline in civility and adherence to moral principles. (by which I mean the ones that say you don’t torture and kill people indiscriminantly)