Warren Beatty is not happy with the Gropinator

Warren Beatty gives a stirring speech, criticising the Gropinator, and the right-wing political agenda in general.

I have often wondered, what the fuck needs to happen for this country to change course? Beatty answers this too. It is apparent that the Democratic leadership are not the answer, really. They too are vested in a myopic reality of "getting elected." Fuckers will say and do whatever shit will get them elected.

The answer is, the American public has to rise up and say, "enough with this shit." Right now, as Beatty points out, it's a case of "a state in which the wealthy class rules. And most of the public sleeps."

The American public is asleep, or worse still, enthralled/hypnotized by "entertainment devices." For so long as that remains the case, you change is a very real impossibility. Now, the rich are doing everyting they can to keep the masses asleep, and hypnotized so they can continue to fuck them. If the masses were awake, they'd realize they're being raped.

So, how do you wake this sleeping giant? I don't know.

"And with the obscenely increasing disparity of wealth, what does the wealthy class buy?

Our attention. Access. Through buying satellites and cable and television and radio stations and newspapers and magazines and direct mailings and spokesmodels and financing political candidates, it buys Access. An obscene amount of access to our opinion."

Is it hopeless to compete with this access to the public's attention by asking: "Are you aware of the effect of the right-wing deregulation and consolidation of media on public opinion and public policy in this din of the technological tornado that has miniaturized our attention span while what passes for the truth is manipulated by fewer and fewer hands and a sleepy citizenry is aroused by very little other than entertainment devices and most individual entertainer-personalities in the news media become more and more reluctant to resist the conservative politics of their employers? And that there are steps that we as voters can take to rally our legislators into action that can curtail, eliminate or at least ameliorate this movement to plutocracy?"

Difficult.

But if you ask: "Can't you wake the hell up you sleepy sons of bitches and find out what you can do to keep these rich bullshitters from feeding you this crap and telling you what to think?"

Well, that might be a better sound bite, but it risks censorship in mainstream media as obscenity.

Justice Potter Stuart said of pornography: "I'll know it when I see it." So if we do see obscenity and we know it, what should our public policy be? Silence? At what point should one hear the sound of one's own voice?

There are few things quite as daunting for an individual as trying to protest against the voice of an energetic marketing [person] who holds the podium of public office who's funded by a plutocracy who's willing to say whatever expedient thing works for the moment.

But it's less daunting, however, for a group -- a group with conviction -- who are willing to organize publicly.

Beatty, doesn't go into how the fuck to wake the masses. I guess he is supposing, he is doing his bit, and asking the graduates to do their bit. Frankly, it's a nightmare task. The access to people's attention, and the fact that generally the masses are neither "concientized" nor educated sufficiently to see through this. Even the educated class are not educated enough to deal with this. Some of the smartest people I know in this country are the dumbest people politically. And quite frankly, nobody wants to spend time fighting this: people work to make a living, or ends meet. This shit seems kinda remote. And, the Democratic crop of leaders ain't gonna help, I repeat.


So what's the answer? How is change going to come? When it all goes to the dogs. Will it all go to the dogs? I don't know. It has to REALLY all go to the dogs for the masses to wake up. Material comforts make a nation unambitious, and this is, ironically, one of the most unambitious nations in the world today. The trend is towards anti-intellectualism, anti-science and anti-reason or rationality. Witness the immigration laws. Canada, the UK and others have a system that encourages the educated class to land on their shores. The US has a practically blind green card-lottery, that cares only about country of origin. The US needs an unquestioning class of good consumers.

Me things, the masses are going to be asleep for a long, long time. This is what makes - wait for the refrain - "America a great country" that is, for anybody wanting to take advantage, join in the pillaging and raping of a sleeping public. Why the fuck should a fucker care, if the fuckees don't care, right? Fuck on, I say - it might wake 'em up sooner.