Yes.. well - - -

Virtually every memorably-profound homo-sap has passed on a hint about what we 'watch' ("impressions taken-in") and the effect upon a one's psyche of those cumulative images -- as they marinate within the sub- and other unexamined levels of consciousness (or, for vastly too many: "consciousness".)

From the WW-II posters depicting buck-toothed Japs and the ditties about praise-the-lord and pass the ammunition -- we have all experienced the effects, so polished by Göbbels' Ministry of Propaganda and lately, the just-as-banal slogans of the past Eight Fucking Years ... and their effects on the mouth-breather plurality within our Stuff-clogged, inanity-besotted noncivilization.
Mr. Herbert appends his particular angle-of-view to a vast array of similar pleas; all re the self-medicating means by which mobs of the historically illiterate never Hear such messages about how-it-is that their primitive psyches are so easily manipulated by the power-obsessed of every era: because nobody Likes to See-Self as just another mindless dupe, now Do We?

(Besides, Mark Twain's War Prayer goes directly to the heart of the matter -- and look how LONG ago he wrote that! (and consider the cachet of his entire rep with the Murican Peepul du jour.) If THAT didn't slice through all propaganda, then and subsequent: What Would?

But.. maybe ... Just maybe?
Cheney's current bloviations about Keeping Murica Safe [from Itself] shall prove to be a litmus for what the entire mob has actually Learned since Condoleeeza's intelligence-assaulting depiction of mushroom clouds (and the Chimp's chirpy bloviations across the full Eight Years.)

Cheney is Soooo Hoping for an explosion somewhere, SAP -- to somehow justify his depravity across all scales of that idea.
He and the anus-joke fixated Rush + usual Shout Radio infotainers
'Rush Limbaugh's race to the bottom'
http://www.salon.com...source=newsletter
-- should provide a reasonable assessment of whether Muricans will next self-examine bravely enough to finally begin overcoming their perpetual sloth and adolescent gullibility [???]
If Cheney does not manifestly self-destruct -shortly- on his campaign trail of tenuous tautologies: then we shall all know in just what state the Murican Psyche '09 exists.


Scary.. waiting for the outcome. Palin + Vice-President Potatoe on the next slate?
Then ... It's Dead, Jim.
(And if it moves.. it's just another zombie at another zombie bank corner office and those 29.99% CC interest rates and Medico Insurance fat cats continue on into the palpable denouement -- hey, I may get to actually See That-all Happen.)


Luck to us all. Can't count on Reason. We're all about Disneyland fantasies in thees parts.