To the editor:
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One of Robert Anton Wilson’s best quips is: “Anyone in the United States today who isn’t paranoid must be crazy.” I’ll give Futrelle the benefit of the doubt, though, and won’t argue on the basis of Wilson’s exceedingly astute observation that he’s just a lunatic–not that Futrelle wouldn’t deserve to be dismissed so easily given his own eagerness to suggest that anybody trying to get to the bottom of things is wacky, unhinged, and so on. Because of this thoroughly demeaning, disrespectful, arrogant attitude -of his, though, we also can’t let him off the hook by simply characterizing him as just another naive, ignorant airhead. And wouldn’t it have been nice to skewer him with a slight modification of one of his own statements, such as: “In America those with (ideas like his) end up retreating from the world of real politics to the safer havens of their own minds–to a kind of politics of the imagination, a politics responsible to no one and indifferent to its real-world consequences.”
As Parenti doesn’t hesitate to point out in his Prevailing Winds article, the gangster state that America has become–under the firm control of its conspiring Economic Elite–has murdered and assassinated tens of thousands, if no-t millions, “in order to prevent social change, to destroy any kind of redistributive politics–any kind of government, any kind of social movement that is not willing to reduce its people to economic fodder for the Fortune 500.” In fact, in this same article he goes on to note that “what makes the assassination of JFK so compelling is how nakedly the gangster nature of the state is revealed.” I refuse to believe an admittedly clever ever bullshit artist like Futrelle isn’t aware of the fact that the super-rich (basically the politically active elements of what is generally known as the Eastern Establishment) calls the shots in this increasingly technofascist plutocracy.
PS: I’d like to see Futrelle attempt to claim he isn’t an apologist for fascism merely because he has some unkind words for militia members. Assuming all militia members are the fascists the mainstream media would now have us believe they are, anybody with half a brain in his/her head would know that they were simply serving as diversionary fodder for the real fascists firmly ensconced in the Economic Elite.
