As the History Channel has yet another Armageddon Week, airing all of its doom and gloom programs,
with Nostradamus one of the focuses in the title, it is time to make a few simple suggestions.
First, remember the Aesop's Fable about the Shepherd Boy and the Wolf (commonly known as The Boy
Who Cried Wolf). The moral of the story is not what I want you to think about now. I want you to think
about how the story states a human characteristic that psychologists call desensitization. In other
words, we like to think we are prepared for any emergency that might come up; but too many fire drills
or too many false alarms and we get bored to tears with preparing.
Think about how many people go to the expense (either post purchase or as part of a purchase) having
exotic alarms put on their cars. How many times have you heard one go off, only to think, "When are
they going to turn that dang thing off?" Nobody gets up immediately and runs to catch a thief breaking
into a car. We know that car alarms go off for many different reasons, becoming nothing more than
expensive nuisances.
Well, the History Channel is blowing the End Times alarm again and again, so guess what. Nobody
gives a dadgum. It is like going to see a new Freddie horror movie (or whatever is the latest gross-out
horror movie star is). We love to be scared when we know it is not real. Armageddon is just another
scary movie. It is not real.
Second, consider how we all fell for the George Bush-Dick Cheney-Donald Rumsfeld trick, where the
President lied to the nation after 9-1-1 and the Afghanistan campaign, in order to get U.S. troops sent
into Iraq. There was a little bit of that wolf cry hesitation then, because some people argued for proof of
the evidence used as the reason Saddam Hussein was letting the al-Qaeda establish training bases in
Iraq. No one really thought Iraq was connected to the Twin Towers and the Pentagon being attacked by
American passenger airliners. However, everyone signed off on getting involved in a war with Iraq
because the President cried out Wolf!
This led to the beginning of all kinds of changes in the privacies and basic birthrights for American
citizens. It was like the Pied Piper walking down the road, with all the mesmerized Americans happily
following behind, being led away from the world they knew before, to a new world of change. Just in
case anyone would turn and see just how far away they had gone, another shot of pseudo-morphine
would be injected into them, through the children of America's most favorite drug connection, television.
In order to have enough people believe America made the right decision back in 2002, we have had
Hollywood inject us with the deadening effects of fear through terrorism. Back in the seventies and
eighties it was those nasty Commies that played the role of heavies in all the thriller spies save the Free
World movies. By the time the nineties rolled around and the Soviet Union had crumbled, Hollywood's
vilain du jour was a pesky Arab, led by an Osama bin Laden look-alike. Those type of Hollywood
productions boomed in the early 2000s, one of which became a popular television series, named 24.
That television show, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack, saves the world from terrorists each week. I
must admit, I have never watched the show, so pardon me if I embellished the basic theme. The point of
all this is there are no Jacks in America, unless you consider yourself Jack material.
It is all made up by Hollywood, so you will always sit in your easy chair the moment some alarm goes off.
The last thing this country needs (at least as far as the leaders of this country are concerned) is a bunch
of individuals going out, trying to save America. They don't give Jack about Americans. Americans are
their sacrificial lambs, who do their dirty work; and Americans who really want to save America simply
need to go join the military. After that (and a little bit of training), Americans go to Iraq or Afghanistan (or
wherever our leaders decide Americans should go). Since most people in America are fat and lazy, it
is so much better to stay seated and let someone go do the dying for you.
Now, all of this relates to the Prophecy written by Nostradamus. It has nothing to do with the hogwash
the History Channel feeds you, as far as Armageddon Week is concerned. The History Channel simply
takes a known biblical prediction, adds it to a known person who saw a similar end (presented as a
secular seer), and builds it all up to make you think it is okay to sit and wait for Modern Marvels to come
on next, because there just is nothing you can do to save the world. Who are you to think you could do
anything?
Using the same logic, there is no need for a show like 24 to succeed. Who is that Jack guy? There is
no way Jack could do squat. I do not believe the scenario. It is hogwash. You stop watching. You stop
buying from the advertisers. Kiefer Sutherland stops acting and gets a real job.
You watch a show like that because it is a basic human nature to not want to die. You want someone to
have the connections, and the technology, and the capabilities and training to go into action to stop evil.
It is the stuff heroes are made of. Since there are no longer demigods walking the earth, like Hercules,
Jason, and Achilles, it is up to typical human beings having to take up the role. Keep in mind; a hero
lives to tell of his exploits. A hero is not simply someone dying from shrapnel or bullets, a long way from
home, because of the decisions of some chickensh*t ordering sacrifice for personal glory.
with Nostradamus one of the focuses in the title, it is time to make a few simple suggestions.
First, remember the Aesop's Fable about the Shepherd Boy and the Wolf (commonly known as The Boy
Who Cried Wolf). The moral of the story is not what I want you to think about now. I want you to think
about how the story states a human characteristic that psychologists call desensitization. In other
words, we like to think we are prepared for any emergency that might come up; but too many fire drills
or too many false alarms and we get bored to tears with preparing.
Think about how many people go to the expense (either post purchase or as part of a purchase) having
exotic alarms put on their cars. How many times have you heard one go off, only to think, "When are
they going to turn that dang thing off?" Nobody gets up immediately and runs to catch a thief breaking
into a car. We know that car alarms go off for many different reasons, becoming nothing more than
expensive nuisances.
Well, the History Channel is blowing the End Times alarm again and again, so guess what. Nobody
gives a dadgum. It is like going to see a new Freddie horror movie (or whatever is the latest gross-out
horror movie star is). We love to be scared when we know it is not real. Armageddon is just another
scary movie. It is not real.
Second, consider how we all fell for the George Bush-Dick Cheney-Donald Rumsfeld trick, where the
President lied to the nation after 9-1-1 and the Afghanistan campaign, in order to get U.S. troops sent
into Iraq. There was a little bit of that wolf cry hesitation then, because some people argued for proof of
the evidence used as the reason Saddam Hussein was letting the al-Qaeda establish training bases in
Iraq. No one really thought Iraq was connected to the Twin Towers and the Pentagon being attacked by
American passenger airliners. However, everyone signed off on getting involved in a war with Iraq
because the President cried out Wolf!
This led to the beginning of all kinds of changes in the privacies and basic birthrights for American
citizens. It was like the Pied Piper walking down the road, with all the mesmerized Americans happily
following behind, being led away from the world they knew before, to a new world of change. Just in
case anyone would turn and see just how far away they had gone, another shot of pseudo-morphine
would be injected into them, through the children of America's most favorite drug connection, television.
In order to have enough people believe America made the right decision back in 2002, we have had
Hollywood inject us with the deadening effects of fear through terrorism. Back in the seventies and
eighties it was those nasty Commies that played the role of heavies in all the thriller spies save the Free
World movies. By the time the nineties rolled around and the Soviet Union had crumbled, Hollywood's
vilain du jour was a pesky Arab, led by an Osama bin Laden look-alike. Those type of Hollywood
productions boomed in the early 2000s, one of which became a popular television series, named 24.
That television show, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack, saves the world from terrorists each week. I
must admit, I have never watched the show, so pardon me if I embellished the basic theme. The point of
all this is there are no Jacks in America, unless you consider yourself Jack material.
It is all made up by Hollywood, so you will always sit in your easy chair the moment some alarm goes off.
The last thing this country needs (at least as far as the leaders of this country are concerned) is a bunch
of individuals going out, trying to save America. They don't give Jack about Americans. Americans are
their sacrificial lambs, who do their dirty work; and Americans who really want to save America simply
need to go join the military. After that (and a little bit of training), Americans go to Iraq or Afghanistan (or
wherever our leaders decide Americans should go). Since most people in America are fat and lazy, it
is so much better to stay seated and let someone go do the dying for you.
Now, all of this relates to the Prophecy written by Nostradamus. It has nothing to do with the hogwash
the History Channel feeds you, as far as Armageddon Week is concerned. The History Channel simply
takes a known biblical prediction, adds it to a known person who saw a similar end (presented as a
secular seer), and builds it all up to make you think it is okay to sit and wait for Modern Marvels to come
on next, because there just is nothing you can do to save the world. Who are you to think you could do
anything?
Using the same logic, there is no need for a show like 24 to succeed. Who is that Jack guy? There is
no way Jack could do squat. I do not believe the scenario. It is hogwash. You stop watching. You stop
buying from the advertisers. Kiefer Sutherland stops acting and gets a real job.
You watch a show like that because it is a basic human nature to not want to die. You want someone to
have the connections, and the technology, and the capabilities and training to go into action to stop evil.
It is the stuff heroes are made of. Since there are no longer demigods walking the earth, like Hercules,
Jason, and Achilles, it is up to typical human beings having to take up the role. Keep in mind; a hero
lives to tell of his exploits. A hero is not simply someone dying from shrapnel or bullets, a long way from
home, because of the decisions of some chickensh*t ordering sacrifice for personal glory.
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