At the dawn of the 21st century, Bill Clinton delivered a State of the Union acknowledging the recent Columbine school shooting but making no mention of the tens of thousands who protested Seattle’s world trade meeting that previous November.
Instead he claimed a “consensus on global trade” while warning in the coming years of the “enemies of the nation-state.” Thus the information age, from its inception, has pitted open systems against authoritarianism. Democrats themselves are on record wondering if perhaps “the internet should never have been invented,” with Joe Biden assuring elites 20 years later that “nothing will fundamentally change.”
There are over one million active duty US military members stationed at 800+ bases around the world. America enrolls 20 million college students while 40 million of their citizens live in poverty. And then globally 60 million have been displaced during this ongoing refugee crisis, the largest since the forced establishment of Israel. But the rational causality of objective reality is purposefully omitted from narratives.
This book will likely not sell 121 million copies, at least not immediately. But at the intersection of the education of American citizens, their decreasing standard of living and the empire they tacitly condone through a militant culture are values, reflected in the words and omissions of elected officials.
