Could
America Survive a Truth Commission?
By
Charles Hugh Smith
December 03, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- A nation that's no longer capable of naming
names and reporting what actually happened
richly deserves an economic and political
collapse to match its moral collapse.
You've probably heard of the
Truth Commissions held in disastrously corrupt
and oppressive regimes after the sociopath/kleptocrat
Oligarchs are deposed.
The goal is not revenge, as well-deserved as
that might be; the goal is national
reconciliation via the only possible path to
healing: name names and tell the plain,
unadorned truth, stripped of self-serving
artifice, spin, propaganda and PR.
Is such a stripped-of-spin
truthful account of names and events even
possible in the U.S.?
Sadly, there is precious little evidence that a
Truth Commission in the U.S. would be anything
more than a travesty of a mockery of a sham, a
parade of half-truths, misdirections, falsehoods
and fabrications, all aimed at one goal:
protecting the powerful from the consequences of
their decisions and actions.
Sadly, we've lost the capacity to
simply tell the truth:
everything, and I mean everything, is crafted to
protect the guilty, polish the putrid decay of
legalized looting, defraud the unwary, ease the
most venal, power-mad sociopaths into positions
of unparalleled power, sell low-quality goods
and services nobody needs or would even want if
the marketing weren't so Orwellian, persuade
debt-serfs to borrow more and bamboozle voters
into further enriching the few at the expense of
the many.
The truth is no match for greed
is good and don't be evil, unless it's
incredibly profitable, in which case, go for it
but cover your tracks
(here's looking at you, Big Tech). Outrage is
reserved for whistleblowers who name names and
reveal the sordid truths that the status quo has
expended the nation's treasure to protect from
the light of day.
This is the pathetic state of
America: our outrage
is reserved for those telling the truth, not for
the legions who lie, cheat, steal and
prevaricate to conceal the truth at all costs.
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The so-called gatekeepers are all
corrupt and self-serving,
minions of the Intelligence Community, corporate
overlords, billionaires or the interest groups
that fund their studies, departments, think
tanks and "research" (the conclusions are
established first and the "research" follows
accordingly).
Who has earned our trust by
refusing to toe the line of an approved
narrative? Who's left
who isn't blinded by hatred, bought off by
billionaires or fearful of retribution from
America's disastrously corrupt and oppressive
regime, rightfully fearing being fired, demoted,
marginalized, demonetized, disappeared from
public view via being de-platformed or
permanently disappeared via "accident" or
"suicide"?
We've been so jaded by all the
lies, all the legal looting, all the rigged
statistics, and yes, all the convenient
"accidents" that we no longer trust anyone to
simply report the names and events.
We now assume that everyone has an ax to grind
and is likely being handsomely rewarded to
sharpen the ax without appearing to do so too
blatantly.
A nation that's no longer capable
of naming names and reporting what actually
happened richly deserves an economic and
political collapse to match its moral collapse.
A nation whose only reliable purpose and goal is
to protect the powerful from consequences, no
matter what the consequences of that corruption
might be, is nothing but a hollow shell begging
for one good kick to send it tumbling into the
abyss.
Charles Hugh
Smith is a contributing editor to
PeakProsperity.com and the proprietor of the
popular blog OfTwoMinds.com. He is the author of
numerous books, including Why Everything Is
Falling Apart: An Unconventional Guide To
Investing In Troubled Times.
https://www.oftwominds.com/
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