by William Manson
Something is rotten in the state…
— Hamlet
In our times, in a media-saturated culture in which well-packaged and
comforting lies are explicitly preferred to unsettling truths, those
who reveal sordid realities are often dismissed if not reviled.
Whistleblowers and voices of integrity—from Dennis Kucinich and Ralph
Nader to Julian Assange and Bradley Manning—engage in the
often-thankless vocation of disturbing complacency; and those awakened
from their lying dreams angrily threaten to “kill the messenger”
(figuratively?—or perhaps literally).
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/10/blood-oil-and-the-american-dream/
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