Thanks for your much better analysis of how state and religion can imprison the mind and control society. And you are right, it is all about control. Thanks also for the film recommendations.
What is fascinating to me is how the Progressive Left in America has adroitly manipulated the Biblical call to love your neighbor as yourself into love your State so it can help your neighbor.
Until recently ( the IRS scandals ) the Left hasn’t had to rely on the jackbooted power of the govt. It just had to PC the culture and entrap and enfeeble us with our basic inclinations to do good and feel important.
In Amerika it is so easy to control the people by simple appeals of ‘Saving the Planet’ or ‘Saving just one life or child.’
It’s the government schools, stupid, it’s the government schools! Dependency on Big Brother gov., pc indoctrination, post-faith/religion societies, undermining/breaking apart of all society’s traditional institutions that bind the community together under one guise or another, these are all the colorful eggs of the public school system that are hatching right in front of us. At the start, they always give, (”public” this and “free” that!) and then they take away, but we repeat the same mistakes of the past. Why did we think Americans would be any different than the rest of the world? It’s not the people per se that have made this country unrivaled and exceptional; it’s a simple(-looking) thin piece of document called the US Constitution that is the lifeblood of this unparalleled country — and don’t the obama left-wingers, if not all democrats, know it! That is why I became such an ardent Tea Party supporter. Can you imagine that: a lifelong democrat and immigrant and woman, turning to Tea Party as the only option left us to save this country from the freight train heading towards her?? Tea Party is about the Constitution. Tea Party means to safeguard the Constitution and reintroduce it to the basket-case zombies churned out by government schools: the concept and idea of the American republic and the American experiment envisioned through our Constitution. That’s why I have come to despise the left to such extend. They have become the embodiment of all who hate and all enemies and rivals to the American republic and Constitution. I truly truly believe this. That’s their entire goal, to water-down and choke the life out of the Constitution that has kept this country immune/resistant until now to the totalitarian big brother world unionist view of their dreams. These vermin will never be appeased until they have taken all. They want ALL! This is what I fear the American people are missing. But my bigger nightmarish dread is that perhaps it is us, the Tea Party supporters, who are missing something; that it is already too late; that we have already lost and we don’t quite see or understand it. God help us, may I be wrong.