The Three Great Scams of Our Time

[Dogpatch]

h/t Blazing Cat Fur

The Three Great Scams of Our Time

The replacement of Truth by narrative and myth.

by David Solway
July 20, 2012 - 12:52 am

“Don’t disturb the order of the world, storyteller.”
– Mario Vargas Llosa, The Storyteller

Corruption, delusion, and mendacity are nothing new as determinants of both personal and collective life. They are staples of human nature. But with the spread of the print and electronic media and the immediate accessibility of information at any time and any place in the “global village,” the opportunity for mass deception has become the distinguishing factor of our time. Sophistry and subterfuge have gone mainstream. The ability of dominant elites to influence and even control the thought-world of vast populations to an historically unprecedented extent is now an integral part of contemporary life.

There are, to be sure, various ancillary elements involved in the ubiquitous public hospitality to blatant fictions and professional guile, including the critical decay of education at all levels and the growing proneness to parasitical entitlements among Western electorates, accentuating the appetite for passivity and stoking what amounts to a handout mentality. A populace coddled by welfare gratuities will accept packaged ideas and doctored reports as readily as they do food stamps, tax exemptions, and government checks.

As a result, intellectual laziness has never been so widespread in a pampered and ostensibly enlightened cultural realm, providing a soft target for media disinformation and political propaganda to work their injurious will. (It must be admitted that even the dispensers of such concoctions are often under the spell of their own stupefactions.) Nothing else, it would appear, can explain the reflexive acceptance among those who should know better of the three consummate trumperies disfiguring the era in which we live: the Palestinian “narrative,” the climate change shakedown, and the ascent of Barack Obama to the most powerful office in the world. Truth is now at a discount as never before and has been increasingly replaced by promiscuous and sovereign mythologies.

1. In a recent “Nakba Day” speech delivered by a Palestinian official on behalf of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was informed that the Jews have no historical right to the land of Israel. “We say that the nation of Palestine upon the land of Canaan had a 7,000-year history B.C.E. This is the truth, which must be understood, and we have to note it, in order to say: ‘Netanyahu, you are incidental in history. We are the people of history. We are the owners of history.’”

This speech was a follow-up to an incendiary rant Abbas addressed to the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2011. Standing before a regional map from which Israel had been erased, Abbas insisted that Israel had no connection to the Holy Land, which he claimed was exclusively Islamic and Christian, and received an ovation for his efforts. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post in December 2011, Maen Rashid Areikat, the PLO representative to the United Nations, glossed Abbas’ fictive account of the antiquity of the so-called “Palestinian nation,” declaring that Palestinians had “lived under the rule of a plethora of empires: the Canaanites, Egyptians, Philistines, Israelites, Persians, Greeks, Crusaders, Mongols, Ottomans, and finally, the British.” As Alexander Yoffe comments in a comprehensive article in the Middle East Quarterly aptly titled “The Rhetoric of Nonsense,” such unadulterated hogwash offers “not only…an indication of unwavering Palestinian rejection of Israel’s right to exist but…an insightful glimpse into the psyche of their willfully duped Western champions.”
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[RedDog]

1. Global warming / Climate change

2. Barack Hussein Obama

3. AIDS fear money greedy grab

[Kate Shaw]

4. The earth is overpopulated, and in order to save humanity it is necessary that 3 billion people be eliminated and no further people be born.

5. Children without "a father in the home" are doomed to become terrorists, drug lords or welfare bums. The QUALITY of the father in the home is immaterial. If the XY being in the home has a penis and two gonads, that insures that the children will grow up to be angels of light.

6. The only people who have no responsibility for the food, clothing, shelter, education, transportation, entertainment and moral upbringing of children ARE THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE BIRTH TO THEM. Conversely, the fact that you have given birth to children makes you automatically exempt from all further responsiblity in the world ("I have children" being the unversal excuse to which there is no reply) and an unlimited entitlement to the possessions and the cash in the giant pot of money that the angels placed in the capital of your country of choice.

[ShadowCat]

I have long believed the greatest scam of my lifetime is this one:
Wise men tell us-
We must pay politicians piss pots full of money and offer perks and pensions
way beyond what the average taxpayer can afford - That way we will get the
brightest and the best- 99% of the time all we get are stumblebums and losers that can't handle real jobs
in real life -
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[Red Green]

1) Government
2) Bigger Government
3) The Government we have today.

[dave]

1/ united nations
2/ governments in general
3/ wall street and banksters

[Red Green]

1/ united nations
2/ governments in general
3/ wall street and banksters

That's a good list too.

[ShadowCat]

I forgot to mention the Olympics -
A bunch of professional money grubbers livin' the dream on the taxpayers dime-

[DA_Champion]

It's interesting that only one person mentioned wall street even though it is the biggest scam of our time, by an order of magnitude. There is nothing that comes close to the 30 trillion dollar bailout the financial industry received. Red Green gets honourable mention for mentioning the twin brother of wall street.

[Red Green]

It's interesting that only one person mentioned wall street even though it is the biggest scam of our time, by an order of magnitude. There is nothing that comes close to the 30 trillion dollar bailout the financial industry received. Red Green gets honourable mention for mentioning the twin brother of wall street.

Wall Street would have been remade a number of times if the govt were not complicit in keeping them immune from civil suits, financial ruin and true competition. We get the govt we deserve and as a result of that govt, we get the financial services we deserve.