I’m sorry. You’ve been had. I said you would be had, and then, you couldn’t buy enough. A Narco-State. A Police-State. A Hysterical-State. Of numbing incredulity. Does America even know what is real. “I will not be arrested.” This tells me you have never been arrested. You are immune from the possibility. I am here to tell you that all of those cultural assumptions you still think are real, were never real. The aristocracy has convinced you that you are powerless. They are right. You are powerless. The Kool Aid is pretty strong. The truth is that Americans are not sure if they believe in anything. What is it they stand for.

We have more incarcerated people sitting in prisons than all the other Nation-States of the entire planet combined. What’s real, is the Kool Aid. The slogans. The high school ideas. The parades. The assassinations. The pounding of the fists upon the table. With nothing to back it up but symbolisms that work (soothes the people) to keep that capitalist boot ground into the neck. History has spoken. The dragonnades of blood in a mist of them. The Dragonnades was a policy implemented by Louis XIV in 1681 to force French Protestants known as Huguenots to convert to Catholicism. The billeting of dragoons of the French Royal Army in Huguenot households, with the soldiers being given permission to rape anyone they wanted. Soldiers employed as part of this public policy were referred to as “missionary dragoons.” Public arrests as symbolism works until it doesn’t. Have to. – Tim Barrus for the New York Times

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