Chris Hedges - Reality of Psychopaths

[Wernothelpless]

Chris Hedges talks on how spying and television allows the corporate state to take control of our minds and souls. The consequences of which resulted in a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted.

Our culture of flagrant self-exaltation, hardwired in the American character, permits the humiliation of all those who oppose us. We believe, after all, that because we have the capacity to wage war we have a right to wage war. Those who lose deserve to be erased. Those who fail, those who are deemed ugly, ignorant or poor, should be belittled and mocked. Human beings are used and discarded like Styrofoam boxes that held junk food. And the numbers of superfluous human beings are swelling the unemployment offices, the prisons and the soup kitchens.

It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

[DhhD]

1. This reminds me of, "The Donald". IMO, he has all of these traits. Recently, he said that we

(America,) should just go in to Iraq and just take their oil. I am remembering, the wolf Chaney, in sheep's clothing, that did not get the oil contracts from the, Bush installed, Shiite government.

[siligut]

2. "Totalitarian societies are always spectacle and image based".

He makes some very compelling points about TV.

[Plucketeer]

3. Chris doesn't get much respect here

at least - not as much as one might think. It's not to hard to understand why tho...... Look at all the show clips from MSNBC or CNN or even Fox - that are shared on DU. It's this "spectacle TV" that he's railing against here. And frankly, he's been opening my eyes to that of late. So much of it is poisoned pablum - easy to ingest and there's no funny after-taste.

[Gary 50]

4. Trump

The last sentence doesn't just remind me of Donald Trump, it's more like a perfect description of my impression of the mans character. Not sure about his need for constant stimulation, but the rest is dead on.

[DhhD]

5. Constant stimulation: Trump is the in the lime light as the Carnibarker side show of look at me, not

President Obama. Look at me, I will go back in to Iraq if Obama will not. I will run for President, if the 1% are ditching Mitt. He keeps on being the side show as showing off and showing others up, is his stimulation.

[nikto]

6. Our thoroughly corrupt Elites...

Are just transferring their own malady to The Masses.

And doing a damn good job of it, too.

[midnight]

7. K&R