Have you ever been lulled into compliance by the Siren’s sweet voice like Ulysses was, or seduced by the charms of a ravishing temptress?  Perhaps you have felt the rapture of transcendence brought on by endlessly listening to 14^th century Gregorian chants.

Well, just like the ritual seductiveness of religion and the regimented requirement of work, online social networking lulls us into a placid acceptance of the necessity of civilization and its artifices – those carefully constructed distractions that keep us harmlessly in line like domesticated cattle, so that we accept the outcomes of its political machinations as necessary evils.

President Obama and his cronies are expanding a machine that is well oiled and, for generations, has been primed to release toxins that will continue to decimate the people of this nation.  And healthcare ‘reform’ is only the latest example of the disease that is spreading.  The healthcare ‘debate’ in the US Congress is just the most recent symptom of the illegitimacy of politics in America, revealing the true nature of this ‘kabuki’ theatre called democracy, our servitude to the State, and the meaninglessness of the institutions of government — democratic or otherwise.

The healthcare tax is real my friends (either by forced premiums or by fines), and it will soon become the law of the land.  We will no longer complain about a death tax in our country, for we will have a Life Tax as well.  If you are alive in America you must pay, whether or not you work, eat, or drive.  As long as you are breathing you must pay!  You have no rights in this country, no freedoms... only duties and obligations!!  And this illusion of our freedom is further exposed by the light of day.

“... It's bad enough that the [Max] Baucus bill says ‘the consequence for not maintaining [health] insurance would be an excise tax’ and the House bill requires a ‘tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage....’ Now Senator Olympia Snowe is reiterating the position that 13% of income is an acceptable maximum out-of-pocket cost for health premiums. That is financially devastating for families at 400% - 700% of the Federal Poverty Level (and many at higher levels). Since the President has ceded extraordinary power to her, this is likely to become law if she so chooses. It's a windfall to the insurers and a body blow to working Americans.” (From the Huffington Post)

And where is the political activism, the conscience in this country?  Where is the outrage, the rebellion? Where are the people calling its government to task for its continued exercise of raw power?  It is gone; the will to resist has been dissipated by the distractions and toys of a civilization that would crumble if people could only find their instinct to challenge it.   And social media, the newest toy in the arsenal of civilization, is only the latest of distractions; and it distracts surreptitiously, while providing the illusion of engagement, of resistance, of revolt.

Facebook and Twitter create apathy, not action. They are just additional tools of civilization’s ruling elite, to keep us under the thumb of their political hegemony.  We remain enslaved to these distractions, which keep us from taking responsibility for our lives – going where we need to go and doing what we need to do. It is like an elixir, a drug, used by the ruling hegemony to keep us enslaved to them and their 'system' forever!

In fact, we do not just accept such obedience; we applaud it, sanctify it, celebrate it and encourage it — in our selves and our fellow 'citizens'.  It is a sad time for us, as ‘we the people’, as humanity sinks deeper into a quagmire of its own making.

Whether it is peaceful assembly in Pittsburgh, H1N1 vaccination refusals in New York, healthcare debate in Washington, US action in Afghanistan, or even election protests in Iran… the battles are already lost.  In brief, we have all abdicated our primal autonomy, together with the sanctity of kinship and clan, and the guidance of those who would know us and love us.  And we have abdicated such for the feigned comfort of being directed, controlled, imprisoned, enslaved and tortured by the chains of our own acquiescence to political power.

Enjoy your freedom people, as the red carpet is rolled out.