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Monk Or Martyr: One American's Strategy For Survival In The New Normal

• zerohedge.com

A  Quaker essay  from 1955 entitled "Speaking Truth to Power,"  has over time evolved into  a single soundbite used by academicians and intellectuals alike to describe the bravery, and personal absorption of risk, required to be candid with people firmly in power.

When you speak to power in the United States you are most likely going to be ignored as opposed to being imprisoned, persecuted, divested, or killed.   Were our government  "either functional or operable" it  would consider people speaking to power to be an advantage and then adjust.

The last time a "government" adjusted to speaking to power, however, was best illustrated by the brave but foolish man who stood up to a tank  (tank-man) in Tiananmen Square China thereby providing the symbolism of personal sacrifice and thus the political insecurity needed to justify a massive change in public policy.   In the United States today any person, or group of people,  standing up to a tank(s) or a militarized police vehicle(s) will be run over and flattened, the photographic evidence of being squashed and splattered on the pavement would then provide endless entertainment for millions of temporarily outraged people either in minute long videos or even five second repeating "Vines"  until something more entertaining came along.  


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