at 2:50 pm, more than halfthe runners were through. [explosion] the firstbomb explodes. breaking news from canada.police say they've broken up anal-qaeda-linked terrorist attack that was aimed to disrupt a majornorth american transportation route. a sharp new warningof all-out war. for the first time, themysterious and secretive nation has threatened a preemptivenuclear strike against the us. in europe, spain is alsofeeling the economic pinch.
one in four are now currentlyunemployed in that country, and the eu expects thatnumber to climb even higher. china and neighboring countriesare mobilizing resources to fight off a newstrain of bird flu. hospitals in a race against time tocontain nightmare super bacteria before it spreads from thehospital out into the world. jesus, you scared me! but hey, i guessthat's ok, right? if you watch thenews these days,
there seems to be a lotto be concerned about. nuclear war, terrorism, massshootings, city bombings, corporate fraud, bird flu,bank failures, unemployment, contamination, gangs,general crime and depending on yourtemperament and conditioning, perhaps you've already armedyourself to the teeth and are watching this show froman underground bunker somewhere waiting for the end ofcivilization itself. whatever the concern, the idea ofprotection or security from such woes
is ever-pervasive today. prisons, police, insurance,warranties, protection agencies, military and domestic armament, airportgroping, government surveillance, etc. reveal a culture of fear, ifyou will, on many levels, not to mention thatthe modern trends of such security risks arecertainly fascinating. for example, before the 1980s,the thought of someone going into their workplace andwiping out a couple of people was a relatively remote concept.
today we repeatedly see these actsof seemingly random violence, not only in businesses but inschools, churches, movie theaters, malls, sporting events andother common institutions. as unfortunate as this darkreality of our human capacity is, it's perhaps not as unfortunate as the archaic methods we as acivilization have concocted in our attempt tocounter such problems. for instance, in the wakeof growing us gun violence, the national rifle associationwill tell you that the problem
is a lack of armedsecurity at every turn, and if only we'd just armeverybody like the wild west, problems of socialviolence would subside. while at the other extreme, folks willtell you that the problem is rather due to an ease of access: it'stoo simple to get weaponry, and the removal of this easyaccess is now the correct path. however, do either of theseaddress the real issue, the source of thebehavioral problem at hand? where is the national discussionabout, say, motivation
and the sociological conditionitself to which these acts erupt? i point this out becausein a technological age where people can now printautomatic weapons in secret, with home 3d printers paving the wayfor an eventual nanotech revolution that will enable the public tocreate powerful weapons at home, bypassing commercialregulation itself, perhaps we need to rethinkour sense of causality here. for unless you intend to outlawscientific progress itself, regulation isn't going to amountto a damn thing in the long run.
likewise, come to think of it,maybe we also need to step back and reframe what a viablethreat to our safety really is and how it measuresup to other threats. on april 15, 2013, bombs exploded during the bostonmarathon in the united states killing 3 people, gainingglobal attention almost like it was another 9/11. yet in iraq, on theexact same monday, bombs exploded killing20 times as many people,
yet no one in the mainstream mediaseemed to care much about that. you see, if you payattention, you might notice that the true quantifiablemagnitude of a threat or the actual toll of violence really doesn't mean much inthe establishment perception. it's the idea, the context, thepolitical spectacle that matters. this might explain why america hasspent almost five trillion dollars on so-called terrorism,when us citizens today (and statistically always) have beenmore likely to die of a peanut allergy
or in the bathtub thanin a terrorist attack. as the following episode willargue, the security/fear industry stretching from the ever-exploitative newsmedia to the military-industrial complex, to the criminal justice system, notonly exploits sociological distortion birthed out of the very fabric of ourdeprivation, scarcity-driven social order, it now appears to beaccelerating in a vicious cycle. i don't know about you,but given all of this i'm beginning to suspectthat maybe, just maybe the very foundation of oursocioeconomic system is in play here,
no longer existing as a functional modefor human progress on this planet, but rather as a conduitfor a culture in decline. prison: from the darkdungeons of the middle ages to our modern industrial massincarceration correctional facilities, the prison system is a signatureedifice of society today. the united states, theland of the free, now has the highest inmatepopulation in the world, incarcerating over2.3 million in fact. the us has locked up more people thanany other country on the planet,
boastfully housing 25% of theentire world's prison population, with an 800% increase in incarcerationin the past 30 years alone. based partly on the need to removeactive threats from society, coupled with an ever-bleak undertoneof retribution and revenge, the punitive, negative reinforcementtradition common to our justice system is now being challenged by some very basicrealizations in the human sciences. we often forget that whenit comes to human conduct, true behavioral causality hashistorically been ignored, with the focus rather onspooky superstitious forces
such as good and evil. as convenient as such ambiguousmetaphysical assumptions are, modern social science now placesso-called criminal or anti-social acts in the context of publichealth, with real solutions resting in the arena of preventivemedicine, not mere punishment. of course, as with most rationalperspectives in the world today, this view is rather agitating, forit shatters the glorified free will, morally empiricaltraditional assumptions our entire criminal justicesystem is built upon.
however, let's putthat aside for now, and point out the fact that, whilemost naturally do fear prison, its effect as a deterrentis actually quite weak. considering us trends, we see a massiveincrease in incarceration over time, so with this basic observationthe punitive threat of prison clearly isn't workingstatistically. likewise, prison is supposed to be someform of rehabilitation center, right? so does this system workto reform human behavior, taking in so-called criminals andoutputting mentally healthy,
law-abiding citizens? no. in the united states twothirds of prisoners released re-offend within three years, often witha more serious and violent offense. dr james gilligan,former director of the center for the study ofviolence at harvard medical school actually refers to prisons as 'graduateschools for crime and violence'. so given all of this, perhapswe need to step back a bit, shake off the shackles of commonperception and ask ourselves what other roles the judicialand prison systems really have.
for if incarceration isn'tstatistically working as deterrent, and those who get out ofprison are more often worse than they were when they wentin, something is clearly wrong. what else is going on here? while the justification ofincarceration is certainly viable with respect to truesocial threats, no different than the medicalneed to quarantine somebody who is a threat to societybecause of a contagious disease, the evolution of the prison traditionreveals some very dark truths.
the best way to think about it isfrom a historical perspective, considering raceconflict, class conflict in the context of economicand political expedience. the first thing to understand is thatpolitical power, like economic power, is sourced in itssocial inefficiency. in other words, politicians need somethingto fight, and to a certain degree, the more problems a society has, themore the citizens tend to feel the need to give up their powerto government control, with the most proven effectivetype of problem being fear,
usually fear of some perceivedidentifiable external group. of course, this idea hasbeen acknowledged for years, such as by politicaltheorist karl schmitt in his 'the concept of thepolitical', saying that political unity is achievedby defining a common enemy. nothing new. the nazis didthis with the jewish culture. the early us did this with thenative american culture and so on. in short, the trick is to pushthe idea that some subculture, usually in the minority, is the truesource of all of society's woes,
generating mass resentmentand thereby ignoring more accurate yet politicallyinconvenient realities. and while direct racismand discrimination are certainly alive andwell in the world today, the more elusive yet relevantbias is actually economic. the greatest threat to anypolitical establishment is... what do you mean? this? this is a platform.it's three-dimensional. there's the base...yeah, i know it's not very good. fuck off, bob, don'tmake me shoot you again.
the greatest threat to anypolitical establishment is any challenge to itsunderlying economic foundation, as all political platforms arerooted in an economic bias, one way or another.if you can brainwash the public into, say, viewing the failures ofcapitalism as rooted in the poor moral virtue of a trouble-causingsubsection of the population, rather than a built-inconsequence of perhaps capitalism's elitist psychologyand scarcity-driven structure, you can maintain control.
this is where the 'common enemyscapegoat scam' comes into play. it's not that bad! we simply demonize the victims ofthis system, shifting blame away from the more relevant environmental,causal, social condition itself and in the context of the justice system,the war on crime is a perfect tool. all that war on crime is, is a war onthe poor and economically irrelevant. and if a society isconditioned to believe that a person breaking intotheir car to steal property is simply an amoral abomination withall the life choices in the world
otherwise to make ends meet, thenthe causal shift is a success. the reality, however, is thatmost of those incarcerated today are there almost always due tocrimes born from deprivation; deprivation which can begeneralized in two forms: relative and absolute. absolute deprivation is whena person's most basic needs are simply not met, andpoverty is the lead source. the spectrum of disorder thatarises from poverty is vast: from drug dealing,theft and prostitution
in areas lackingemployment opportunities to emotional loss, self-worthneuroses and illegal self-medication leading to complex andelusive chain reactions, which can result in destructiveantisocial behavior. today, one out of every 15 africanamerican kids in the united states have at least one parent inprison, usually the father. it's bad enough that the father figureis important to familial survival as the historical breadwinner,but the proven emotional toll on children who must go withoutsuch an influential parental figure
also has dark results, asthose children are also statistically more likely to beimprisoned as adults, in fact. if you combine poverty with emotionaldeprivation, you have the perfect recipe for not only the manifestationof socially aberrant behavior, but the perpetuation of suchdistortions across generational time. relative deprivation, on the otherhand, is when our sense of worth and self-respect is associated toour cultural perception of success. while absolute deprivation ismeasured by basic health concerns expressing the ever-importantneed for society to work
to efficiently meet our immutable humanneeds for sanity and true security, relative deprivation exists in therealm of subjective comparison and resulting de-humanization. likely the greatest exampleof this negative pressure is the state of classimbalance in the world. while it is true that the formallyclassified poor of the west today actually live, inmaterial terms, better than the upper classa thousand years ago, the dehumanizing wealthstratification occurring today
continues to create complex,destabilizing psychosocial problems. long considered an incentivefor social progress, class difference and wealthimbalance has turned out to be a powerful public health issue, generating massive psychologicaland sociological distortion. want to be intellectually honest?the issues raised here have more to do with commerce thanthey do with the second amendment. a lot of people make a lot of moneyselling firearms and ammunition. the national rifle associationhas said the solution
is to have armed securityguards at every school. certainly, every piece of securitywe engage in can be helpful, but it's foolish to think thatonly security is what we need. the great challenge here is, canwe prevent these tragedies? sorry to interrupt, chief, but since you'vejust brought up this notion of prevention which is of course the realissue here, right? i'm curious when this conversation is going tomove to more relevant social science. for example, we have the nra here.hi! yet we don't have anyone fromthe pharmaceutical industry.
isn't it true that most of themass shootings that have commenced have been done by people whowere under the influence of psychologicallymood-altering medications? or better yet, where's thedrug czar of this country? since the war ondrugs has commenced, there has been a massive increasein gun-related drug violence. are we just going to ignorethis causality as well? or better yet, i almost forgot, i have here about ahundred years of data
on the relationship betweeneconomic imbalance, specifically wealthimbalance and violence. the stats have becomevery clear now that the gap between the rich andthe poor creates more violence. the more gap, the more violence and crime on the whole whichmight explain, by the way, why the united states, with thelargest income gap in the world, also has the most violence and worstpublic health of any first world nation. is this not worth acongressional discussion?
with all due respect, you people can'tpossibly be naã¯ve enough to think that the reduction of certainguns, as the left suggests, or the increase in armed security inpublic places, as the right suggests, is really going to havea long term effect on such deeply rootedsociological problems, right? a problem clearly rooted instructured dehumanization and economic deprivation that’sinherent to our social system, is it not of some viableconsideration to address this issue? no? really?
and then we have theso-called war on drugs. when richard nixon declaredthe drug war in 1971, he asked for an initial84 million dollars. in 2013, the national drug controlbudget requested 25.6 billion, with about a trilliondollars spent in total. and the result over timehas been more drugs, easier access, increasedpotency and more users. today almost half thefederal prison population are non violent drug offenders,often mere users in fact.
clearly a mental health issuerather than a punitive one. draconian mandatorysentencing laws today can send kids to prison fordecades for mere possession. and it is no secret thatthis criminalized subculture has been mostly born out of theprohibitive underground economies necessarily sprouted inpoor areas of the country largely occupied by minorities. as an aside, we oftenforget how deeply racist the united states has been historically,assuming vast improvement.
and yet today there are moreafrican-americans behind bars than were slaves beforethe american civil war. after segregation, the blackcommunity was strategically isolated into low incomeinner city ghettos, which systematically robbedthem of economic opportunity. and as the nationalculture matured, with racism slowly dissipatingthrough the civil rights movement, the economic oppression set inmotion at that time remained, creating a powerfulcycle ever since.
today, one out of every threeblack men are expected to go to prison at somepoint in their lives. and in effect, the real oppressivemechanism in the world today is no longer race,but economic class. and the punch-line is brutal.not only are the poor and forgotten of our societyconveniently turned into criminals, (rather than clear examples of thefailure of our social model), capitalist ingenuityprevails once again, transforming these people intopure saleable commodities,
creating a massiveprofit industry out of an otherwise economicallyuseless social class. from thriving income generation, be it fines,tickets, bail posting and lawyer fees, to the now massive network of servicingthe millions of inmates via health care, food production, security hiring,parole officers and the like, the prison and securityindustrial complex in the west is a thriving business enterprise andpositive factor on economic growth. the cost to imprison one person forone year in the state of california is about $47,000.
extrapolating that to the total us 2013prison population of about 2.3 million, the incarceration servicealone amounts to over a 100 billion dollarsa year in income. and this isn't counting the other 5 millioncurrently being serviced on parole. today, the corrections corporationof america, g4s wackenhut and other private for-profitsecurity and prison firms benefit their investors and shareholderswhen incarceration rates increase, not to mention the nowextremely common labor use, or slave labor use i should say,of the prisoners themselves.
and yes, we might feel some moraloutrage when a pennsylvanian judge gets caught sending kids to privatedetention centers for cash kickbacks. but then again, arewe really surprised? there are even smalltowns in the midwest where the majority areemployed by the local prison, and if they don't have crime and prisoners,their town's economy is in the toilet. not to mention thatmost police departments derive enormous funding fromdrug arrests and seizures. if the drug war stopped,the police department
would lose billionsin this country. and yes, the rabbithole runs even deeper. if we step back even farther, we see abroader economic reinforcement here. you see, the drug trade is far fromlimited to your local street thugs. today, us and european bankslaunder about one trillion dollars in criminal, mostlydrug, money each year. drug money has actuallybecome a very relevant part of the wall street machine.even just recently hsbc bank got caught moving abouta billion dollars in drug money.
did the criminal executives get sent to jail?of course not. why? because the legal system ismostly there to control the poor, not regulate the rich. hsbc paid a fine and moved on, likelyworking to reposition themselves again, like the dozen or soother major banks that continue to launderdrug money each year. anyway, returningto our main point, this now highly capitalized 'blamegame, common enemy' approach is not just there to dismissthe resulting poor,
it is ubiquitous at every turn. whether common crime, terrorism, massmurders or anything destabilizing, we see the mainstream media and even many in the so-called activistcommunity, completely missing the point, buried under the propaganda of in-the-boxestablishment self-preservation to one degree or another. and you know what billmoyer's solution to that is? let non violent criminalsout, like heroin dealers. yeah, that's non-violent!you're a genius, bill!
to have universal gun registration ...- but what about ... wait, that's an important point.- i'm listening. for some reason, wayne lapierre is not makingit, so you will have to hear this from me. universal background checkmeans universal registration. universal registration means universalconfiscation, universal extermination. it's like god is saying to us "look,you gotta work with me on this. i've given you a brain. i've given you the secondamendment to your constitution. i've given you weapons, nowwhy don't you use them?"
the tyrants did it. hitler took the guns.stalin took the guns. mao took the guns.fidel castro took the guns. hugo chavez took the guns.and i am here to tell you 1776 will commence again ifyou try to take our firearms! [laughter, applause] and the 21st century culture in declinebelligerent right-wing freak show award goes to [drum roll] alex jones! [applause] hoo!
give me that, youson of a bitch! huh, it's about timei won an award! ladies and gentlemen,my name is alex jones. and you know what?i'm here to rape your butt! you know why? because it'sgonna feel better if i do it, before the new world order does.that’s right, the globalists are positioningthemselves behind you right now. they're going to take yourguns, put you in fema camps and make you their slaves.
you think i'm a slave?i'm not a slave! and then late one night, when you're drinkingtheir homosexually fortified juice boxes bam! the butt rape begins. and you'll be happy thatold alex was there first to loosen you upreal nice and good. now people, i'm not going to take toomuch time, because i'm a humble man. but i want everybody to goto my website right now and buy my newest dvd 'the conspiracy conspiracy':
how the global elite pays me to makethe liberty movement look insane. that's right, people.i’m an astroturfer. i’m not here to help things, i’m hereto make activists look like freaks! i take viable issuesof real concern and make them sound asridiculous as possible. just like all the otherbobbleheads out there. i’m here to distractyou, you morons, and keep you fightingabout nonsense. and i get paid to do it.
we interrupt this broadcast foran emergency announcement. it's an emergencybecause we say it is. this just in. us airports remainon high alert at this time due to a pronounced terror threat.according to the fbi, a new sophisticated form ofterrorist technology has surfaced, which is now forcing rapid new revisionsof tsa airport security procedures. that's correct, summer.on the heels of 2006 liquid bomb threat and 2009 underwear bomber, this obscure new approach was revealedto authorities in a videotape
allegedly found in anouthouse in willywonkastan. while the date of thevideo is unknown, along with no clearunderstanding of who made it, the use of machetes, headdressesand arabic language was enough for federal authoritiesto declare it is indeed al qaeda. the rather grainy video appearsto show a medical procedure, instructing how to implantexplosives in the body cavities of babies, puppies and kittens.viewer discretion is advised. baby go boom !
in response to thisdevelopment, the tsa after an initial failed attempt tosimply ban such creatures outright, has now instituted anew universal rule. all carry-on babies andsmall pets under 52 ounces must be sealed in asee-through plastic bag. most people don’t realize, but theearth has been slowing for many years. and were it not for these hugeand expensive fans behind me, we would've ground to acomplete day and night halt. and every word outof my mouth is true.
do you know why? because youheard it from some guy in a tie. i'm sorry, ladies andgentlemen, but bob is officially dead. final thoughts. we live in a social model basedupon scarcity and inefficiency. this means that the more societysolves problems, meets human needs and stabilizes itself by recognizing thepotentials and limits of natural law, the less economically viableit is in the monetary economy. there is a reason why doctor martinluther king jr's final pursuit
was a guaranteed incomesystem in the united states. for he knew that racism was, in manyways, an extension of classism. and the existence ofpoverty and deprivation in a world that can create anabundance to meet everyone’s needs, was nothing more thanstructural oppression coming from a failed andelitist social system, an impression that, infact, generates crime and destabilizationin a vicious cycle. you want to see a decline inprohibitive economies for drug sales,
prostitution and blackmarket theft rings? you want to see society stop itsenormous use of self-medicating drugs, both legal and illegal? you want to see anend of national war, an improvement of our socialinfrastructure so disease and accidents can be dropped to arelative fraction of what we have now? or perhaps you want to seethe end of school shootings, gun violence andacts of terrorism, both in the context of state-fundedblack ops and real blow-back?
then it's time thehuman family recognize its global potential to achievea post-scarcity reality, work to strategicallyshare our resources, work to meet human needs directlyand focus collaborative energy on interests for truecollective human betterment, hence removing theinherent warfare unnecessarily built into ourarchaic socioeconomic system, along with all theresulting racism, hatred, dehumanization, oppressionand elitism it manifests.
and no, i’m not telling youto go write your congressman. if the social system is the disease,then those who appoint themselves to assist its operation arethe tumors and lesions. voting with ballots or assumingwhat you choose to spend money on is going to change the waythis world works is delusion. it's going to take a new approach.a parallel uprising of power to shift the tide. and whether we are aware of it ornot, this is happening slowly, right now aroundus in the world. and the question is, whereare you in this interest?
and do you even care? if not, well, welcome tothe culture in decline. and this show, as shitty as itis, is going to keep running. if so, then maybe thisterrible reality show may come to an endfaster than we think. but until that happens,rest assured i'll be here, arrogantly pointing out thatmost everything you believe and hold dear is wrong. so, get back to your bibles, video games,internet porn, and ak47s, bitches,
and have some fun out there in thisdark circus we call normality. and until next time,i’m peter joseph, and whether you likeme or not, i exist, as an agent and victimof a culture in decline. ladies and gentlemen, don't letthis fatly-looking body fool you. i workout four times a day,i run 19 miles a day, and i drink tangy tangerinelike it's my job! i'm only big like this because thenew world order makes me... aaaagh! people, you know what keepsold alex up at night?
it's these dag'em gobeless. i'm sorry, i said gobles.- gobeless. listen up, people. these neo-cons are suckling the buzzard.that ain't your mama! it's these nwo scum, they're goingaround trying to butt-rape everybody. they're nothing but abutt-rape machine. it's these nwo globalistcommunist scum that are going aroundlike a butt-rape machine i'm a butt-rape machine,butt-rape machine
people i am a butt-rape machine. you know what? instead of a baldeagle, the national symbol should be a man laying in submission in afetal position peeing on his self. that's what it should be,peeing all over his damn self! if you can't tell,this is all an act. it's a schtick, that's whyi talk crazy and shit. flailing my arms andmy neck like this! it's an act! it's a schtick!i made money! [demonic laughter]
- keep grunting.- how about that? you want some of that?you want some peter? [laughter]
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