{"id":332202,"date":"2017-10-26T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-simulacra-democracy\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:48:26","slug":"the-simulacra-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-simulacra-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simulacra Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_97041\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97041\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-25-at-5.51.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"343\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by William Brawley | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC by 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society\/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot locate the United States (!) is not merely \u201cintellectually sluggish.\u201d It would be more accurate to call it moronic, capable of being fooled into believing anything \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Morris Berman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I cannot remember U.S. culture ever being quite so compromised by ruling class control. Hollywood turns out one jingoistic and militaristic and racist film and TV show after another. Corporate news is completely controlled by the same forces that run Hollywood. It is the complete capitulation of the liberal class to the interests of the increasingly fascistic U.S. elite. And this didn\u2019t start with Donald Trump. Certainly in its current incarnation it goes back at least to Bill Clinton, and really it goes back to the end of World War Two. The ideological trajectory was formed under the Dulles brothers and military industrial complex \u2014 representing U.S. business interests and exhibiting a demand for global hegemony. But once the Soviet Union collapsed, the project was accelerated and intensified.<\/p>\n<p>Another starting point might well be the 1960 Bay of Pigs fiasco, or the 1961 CIA (and MI6) assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Or Kennedy\u2019s 1962 speech at American University calling for the end of Pax Americana. We know what happened to Kennedy soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/10\/26\/the-simulacra-democracy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by William Brawley | CC by 2.0 \u2026 a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society\/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot locate the United States (!) is not merely \u201cintellectually sluggish.\u201d It would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}