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From: "Fabio Bizzetti" fabzt@tin.it To: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk
For our yankee friends, a snipped from a mail I wrote to a friend:
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Dear K., Yesterday I was truly too tired (no sleep in the previous 48 hours) to make a serious reasoning.
Have you heard the news today? For a change, this morning two "normal" US Americans entered in their school armed and killed a lot of people, testimonies reported that they were laughing out loud while doing it, and targeted mostly black men and football players.. and also (as our media said, but you never know considering how many lyes our western media tell us everyday) worshipping Hitler while they were shooting all their schoolmates. 15 were killed and 20 severely wounded. Then they suicided. Unfortunately this is becoming pretty common in the USA.. we talked about this yesterday night and also about depression or other nevrotic/psychotic problems in the USA. Well, I based my "assumptions" on many things, including the very high percentage of people that are under psychoanalisis in the USA, or psychiatric therapy. Or very common episodies like this.
I very much believe that, although it really sucks, it's not McDonald's food the cause of all this menthal sickness. ;) It's the "democratic", "free" and capitalist culture of the USA the cause of all that (potential or expressed, as this morning in that school) complete menthal insanity. You recall the "Evil Empire" (i.e. the communist block), where there was no freedom.. all was censored, people were unhappy etc.. well, not wanting to defend what I always hated too, (even more because it was throwing shit on marxism, and was abusing of its name and thus ruining it for any future use), all that lack of freedom was true as much as evident. In the USA there's no less than that shit, but it's all _smartly_ hidden by the rulers and government. At the risk of sounding paranoid.. they are smart, they don't openly repress as "unexpert" dictators may do, they instead study scientifical ways to obtain the same (or even better) results using much more subtle and effective means than repression. Which never works.. and they know very well this. Unlike some stupid third-world dictator.
I invite you to read something I wrote time ago: http://bizzetti.hypermart.net/freedom.html
Before I say the following words, I've to say I'm personally (for my own reasons) against drugs, i.e. I don't use any. Yet, I think it's my own right to decide if I want to use them or not... not my State's "right".
The drugs subject shows much of this hidden shit: The USA is bringing on a kind of Inquisition against all psychotropic drugs which generate some forms of pleasure. This modern Inquisition started in the USA as a "puritanical" expression of the yankees society to ban pleasure from life. The US American governments have systematically demonised all psychotropic drugs which can give pleasure (even alcohol was demonised but this demonisation was not successful and was abandoned when it was noticed that alchool was too well estabilished in the culture and was impossible to ban, it only created powerful figures as Al Capone). Why instead the FDA has approved a lot of drugs that simply "turn off" emotions and make you be like a zombie (thus "curing" depression in a different way)? Why does the Pentagon fear such ("positive" and non-dangerous for the health) drugs that have anti-depressive and pro-sociality effects (e.g. GHB)? Because depression is basically a defect of sociality. Depression is a state of lowered sociality and when natural sociality is lowered in a human brain (for instance through competition, etc) then this mind starts to suffer morally. A lot of studies have shown that when sociality is enhanced, depression vanishes. But, again, why does the USA government fears true sanity (i.e. high sociality, lack of paranoia, lack of aggressivity)? Because to be a good capitalist you need to block your sociable feelings: you should cease to consider other human beings as human beings but just as things which can bring you money and power. But, as we know, humans are not machines and this doesn't quite work after a bit, and produces severe psychosis. You have to learn to be selfish, that is highly non-sociable. Keeping the people paranoid (now, you probably know how many people suffer from paranoia in the USA.. it's even in the common sense nowadays) helps them to be anti-social (thus selfish), which enhances "competition" and thus capitalism, but also brings ill side-effects as boys shooting to their schoolmates screaming "I hate niggers and football players".. and every and all drugs (either chemical or political) that *concretely* promote (unlike Christianity) sociality and positive feelings towards others have to be considered highly subversive and thus a concrete danger against the capitalist regime, that (through brainwashing instead of militar repression, but also through militar repression (CIA if possible, or non-secret army as last resort) when brainwashing fails, thus like traditional dictatorships) is in _concrete_ less democratic than any dictatorship. Too bad it causes a lot of menthal insanity, unlike more traditional dictatorships that cause simply (consciously) a feeling of lack of freedom, but at least you're aware of it. You're free inside at least, and ready to fight for your physical freedom.
This is why I tell you that capitalism has indeed failed, even more than communism, although it won the economical war against the latter. But economy is not an human thing.. this has been demonstrated by psychoanalisis and reality many times: we're not machines, we cannot be considered like that. Or we don't work well anymore, by all means (including self-destruction).
Your (indeed unquestionable) objection may be that under democracy at least the people can choose, and this is indeed true in theory.. but since theory without practice has no value in life, and since they will allow democracy only as long as the people will vote as the rich powerful men wish (otherwise it's CIA or US Army time to fix things back to the original state), then my objection is that with democracy there's no choice. In places like the USA only a big revolution could change anything.. of course this doesn't apply to much more civil countries like Switzerland or Sweden, or some others.
Take care, Fabio