July 05, 2023:
Information Clearing House
--Isn’t it just peachy, living
in the Magic Kingdom? I mean, aren’t you
thrilled and gratified to be entertained by your
government with pleasant and often exciting
fantasies, instead of having to be oppressed
with ugly and disturbing facts? Isn’t it
wonderfully calming to enjoy constant relief of
conscience and stress through a dependable
stream of jolly, uplifting tales rather than to
have your emotional core attacked and threatened
by dismal truth?
To provide you with this service
your government has adopted
Disneyfication as its new operating
principle. Sure, it’s always put a heroic
polish on whatever noble action it takes—Iraq,
Syria, Afghanistan, nothing new in that—and it
has pampered your ego by affirming your
Exceptional status as a people; as a kind of
Master Race, really. It has labored for
generations to keep you from being exposed to
brutal, actual information that could upset you,
or disturb your inner Wa. Just going back to
Vietnam days you can trace the intensification
of this effort to keep you from having to absorb
facts that might impair your self-regard.
Having had their trust betrayed
by disloyal reporters in that noble
pacification, they “embedded” the latest ones
under military supervision in Iraq to prevent
you from having to see and be hurt by nasty
Wikileaks propaganda such as the “Collateral
Murder” videos. Why should you be subjected to
such unpleasantness?
Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
This salutary conceptual
prophylaxis devised by our empathetic governing
powers has entailed constant, diligent efforts
to ensure that events such as, for example, the
mass attitude adjustment required of the
villagers of My Lai, the behavioral modification
of the headstrong sects of Fallujah, or the
even-handed doctrinal discipline administered to
miscreants in the Abu Ghraib detention center,
are not misrepresented and utilized by evildoers
in such a way as to inflict serious pain on your
collective psyches.
America’s guarding of its clear,
limpid stream of pure information was unimpaired
in its therapeutic effect until recently, when a
villainous pattern of vicious assaults on their
policy of guided veracity intensified, led by
dark entities who wish us ill. Sad to
relate—though we have been assured for years by
high officials that most of these despicable
attacks were from the usual nefarious
source—Russia and demonic dictator, Putin—it has
become clear that we harbor in our very bosom,
malevolent traitors eager to erode the
protective integument that has kept our
consciences untroubled so well for so long.
Yes, there are those among us who would strip us
of our emotional defenses and expose us to a
frightening factual world view.
This odious assault on our
protective cognitive shield prompted our
government to go Full Disney. The idea is this:
Disney magic defeats all unpleasantness by
addressing it with a light-hearted, spontaneous
insouciance that overcomes all pernicious
negative vibes. It is so irrepressibly,
effervescently positive that dark, grim facts
are powerless against it. In the full knowledge
of this our government has begun utilizing that
Disney spirit through classic melodies in the
battle against dangerous negative thinking.
In this spirit, “Zip-e-de-doodah”,
a peppy, invincibly affirmative tune, was chosen
as the Anthem of the Biden administration in its
amicable nation-building, installing happy,
friendly regimes such as those of Guaido and
Bolsonaro, who eliminate base envy and rage
toward paternal elites. Rest assured that, in
Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru, plenty of sunshine
is going their way.
The critical importance of always
maintaining a cheerful outlook has not been
forgotten in regard to the recent disturbances
in Ukraine, either, where our government is
using the enticing promise of the dulcet melody,
“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes”, to frame
its positive policy there. It is said to have
become a favorite theme of what remains of the
Azov Battalion and Right Sektor, and a real
inspiration in their Spring Offensive.
Quite recently there was nearly a
civil war in Russia when a certain fat,
middle-aged, billionaire mercenary honcho
rebelled against his master, Putin. Many feel
his daring coup attempt was in response to
continual broadcasting by American intelligence
agencies of that wonderfully uplifting appeal to
hope entitled, “Someday, My Prince Will Come”,
in the War Zone. Although the predicted civil
war did not result, America was heartened that
the threat of it persisted for a full
twenty-four hours, enough to shake the throne
and threaten the overthrow of the deranged
despot.
Elsewhere, our government’s
aggressive challenge to the world’s second
Hitler clone dictator—Biden called him one, just
the other day—the odious Xi of greedy,
perfidious China, is now being pursued with
vigor to the accompaniment of that glorious,
lyrical summons to deep faith, “When You Wish
Upon A Star”. We can feel confident that our
impressive diplomatic team will have that song
on their lips as they labor to replace that
monster.
And we haven’t forgotten our
chief domestic downer, surely this time to be in
convict stripes, that Russian lackey, Trump.
Against him our government has deployed the
monitory “Never Smile At A Crocodile”, which
should keep him from attempting another
fraudulent takeover of our sanctified democratic
nation.
And though things are perhaps not
quite as wonderful as they might be for working
Americans, we can rejoice that the super-wealthy
have more money than ever, pay almost no taxes,
and chump change to Social Security, which just
supports slackers and deadbeats, anyway, while
buying back each others stocks to drive their
profits ever higher. Just so no untoward
thoughts arise among Hoi Polloi, our vigilant
government plays an endless loop of “A Spoonful
of Sugar Makes the Medicine Go Down” for them,
so all is just dandy in this Happiest Kingdom on
Earth.
Paul Edwards is a writer and
film-maker in Montana. He can be reached at: hgmnude@bresnan.net
