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Meditations On Bono Receiving The Presidential Medal Of Freedom From Joe Biden
Meditations On Bono Receiving The Presidential Medal Of Freedom From Joe Biden
Jan. 6, 2025
THE U.S. EMPIRE - FOLLOW THE MONEY
Caitlin Johnstone
This is what western civilization does to art. It perverts it. It makes it corrupt and fraudulent. It turns humanity’s most beautiful and healthy impulse into something with which to sell genocide, capitalism and imperialism. It poisons that creative spark within us and twists it into a tool for normalizing planetary depravity.
The empire attacks something sacred within us all. We are so much less than we could be as a species, because so much of our creative and innovative energy is going into competing and lying and manipulating all the time. The arts. The sciences. They’ve all been strangled to a pitiful trickle of their true potential which would be achieved if humanity were allowed to freely collaborate toward the good of everyone without all our ugliest impulses being elevated.
Our society elevates the worst among us. The artists who are willing to sell their souls to the empire. The scientists who are willing to design killing machines for the military or invent some piece of future landfill manufactured by the toil and resources of the global south. The politicians who are willing to subvert the interests of ordinary people to the interests of plutocrats and power structures. The pundits, reporters and filmmakers who are willing to sell propaganda to deceive us into thinking this is all healthy and normal.
Reading by Tim Foley
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