And the People Believe It...

Yesterday, there was a solar eclipse that could be seen from South India. Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, only saw a partial, but the quality of the light was said to have changed perceptibly starting around 11 AM even there.

My wife tells me that all the eateries in the city had shuttered their establishments and kept their food away from the light. Where she works, the canteen was closed. She was told no food would be served that day. She was urged to eat the food she had brought from home well before 11 AM. Most of her co-workers fasted the entire day.

At home, the maid urged my wife’s mother to eat well before the eclipse was set to begin. Then she proceeded to gather up all the food in the house and keep it in dark places. Word had obviously gone out that the light during this particular eclipse would poison any food left out with radiation and make people sick. …and the people believed it.

This reminds me of the ‘global warming’ hoax that has advanced through to Gospel (truth), having been successfully forced across numerous farcical thresholds over the years. We are now at the point where big money and big egos hang in the balance. In India yesterday the effects of the ruse were confined to temporary hunger pangs. Whoever started it did it with the aim of demonstrating a facility to influence; to validate the potency of a presence. It’s the same idea that’s behind a blog or internet service that is distributed free of charge - to build up the numbers of a following to be used at a later date to potentially… (fill in the blank).

Initially, money is often the least of it. Raw influence may well be the primary motive. Once that has been achieved, money can be made to flow automatically. I still maintain that the media hatchet job on George W. Bush was no fluke. We all played along because we found it amusing (and, above all, non-threatening). On reflection, it was all based on nothing: oft repeated, transparent lies, perhaps. It brought us Obama. Now the coffers are wide open – bleeding our treasure. Would it be a stretch to surmise that today’s beneficiaries of our largesse were the same ones who orchestrated the whole thing in the first place with their (apparently harmless) opening gambits during Bush’s term?

Now the drive is on to demonize Obama. Every one of his ‘failures’ is blown out of all proportion, broadcast, paraded and celebrated on the internet and on talk radio. The man has grown gray hair under the never ending sh*t barrage. Is it a ruse like all the rest? I don’t think so. We’ve been way too smart by only half all along. We still behave as though we know what ‘failure’ actually signifies (to all concerned). We haven’t figured out yet that ‘failure’ to some means ‘success’ to America’s enemies. By some of us rooting for Obama to ‘succeed’, we are in effect rooting for our own destruction.