The campy show on the Sci-Fi Channel, “Scare Tactics” is pretty inventive and shows that we are still gullible to a good con. Isn’t that what it is? a con?
Wikipedia gives you- “A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. A confidence artist is an individual working alone or in concert with others who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as greed, both dishonesty and honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility, naivety and the thought of trying to get something of value for nothing or for something far less valuable.
Sometimes I lift my big fat head up from what I am doing to look around. Lately I’ve noticed an increase in “Simon Says”. People aimlessly following each other around doing what “Simon Says” with an unnatural attention to something in their hand at all times. Have you noticed? We rarely talk directly to each other preferring instead to text or tweet our thoughts across the ethernet to our “friends” and “followers”–I gotta say the followers semantic scares the shit out of me. Most of us are walking around in a daze. We are generally clueless about the collapse of our economy and probably don’t yet realize that the worst is yet to come. It’s slowly starting to sink in that we all have less and there are fewer jobs. We feel the pinch at the gas tank and the grocery store. We cannot buy a house or start a small business. We are spending less and we are scared. Very scared. We are vulnerable to confidence men, to get rich quick schemes and want to believe that a dollar Lotto ticket could solve all of our problems. We are getting angry and uncomfortable with the status quo. We are willing to lash our anger at anyone Simon says. Muslims? Poppy growers in Afghanistan? Mexican Drug Cartels? Jews? Christians? African American? Hawaiians? American Indians? (Oh wait the Casino industry has put a muzzle on the Indians).
We no longer think for ourselves. It’s OK for people to tell us what to do and when to do it. Spell check has motivated an entire generation to find everything on the internet. ”Google It”. A No Brainer. No thinking.
Combine this “aimless mental wandering” with our government’s alarming trend toward privacy invasion we begin to see unpleasant visions. Ugly visions of fascism and the spirit of Adolf himself. Literally, under the umbrella of we are in a State of War and the fear of domestic terrorism, the Homeland Security Office has been given unlimited and unprecedented powers over American citizens.
Call it a conspiracy theory. In my opinion, the government think tanks have predicted a social revolution as the middle class in America is on the brink of extinction. The “Have Nots” are on the rise. There is also a tremendous amount of racial tension causing people to gather in “like” groups for protection or attack. The number of have nots are increasing daily to levels that the 1% are afraid of and will pay anything to quell the noise…firmly.
Something Spiritual is about to happen, a major awakening. What will you be doing? What will be in your hand? Will you have a thought? Or not?
