“We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals and our banks destroy the economy.” Chris Hedges
I came across this quote, plopped totally out of context on the landing page of a web site I frequent for precious metals investment information, and thought it’s the kind of thing I might have written.
Yours truly and this Hedges guy, whoever he is, are kindred spirits, or so I speculated. As it turns out, we’re not even close to that.
I did some research, the sort of thing journalists used to do routinely back in the day, before agendas replaced facts in reporting of “the news.”
Admittedly, I took the shortcut of using a Wikipedia hit that came up after searching the Chris Hedges name. But I believe it’s fair to trust the left-leaning content at Wikipedia in the case of Hedges, a self-described socialist and anarchist.
This guy has all the credentials a far-left sort would need to impress fellow travelers in these troubled times. He and the wife even are hard-core vegans, saving the environment one cow fart at a time.
Hedges also was arrested during Occupy Wall Street, worked for such notable leftist publications as The New York Times and Truthdig, and generally crosses all the t’s and dots all the i’s of the progressive litmus tests.
OK, so he did a stint hosting a cable television show on the Russian-government owned RT America before it was closed down, but no one’s perfect.
What I find instructive is that both Hedges and I separately have come to the conclusion that most institutions in these United States are rotten to the core. We just got there from vastly different points of view.
Doctors destroy health? You bet. Consider the COVID vaccine push, maskholes, and various other bastardizations of our healthcare system in which doctors can be compensated based on keeping you from demanding too much care, to be paid by your insurers.
Lawyers destroying justice? Have you witnessed the proliferation of ambulance chasers ramping up the cost to product goods, or even to provide medical care in this country? Are you aware of how far too many prominent politicians used a law degree as a steppingstone?
Universities destroying knowledge? Censorship and identity politics-based discrimination uphold that charge.
Governments warring against freedom, press destroying information, religion destroying morals and banks destroying the economy. It’s hard to argue with any of those observations.
Likely, Hedges would complain that doctors are not draconian enough in mask and vaccine pushes, that lawyers are not doing enough pro bono work for social justice warriors causes. He presumably thinks universities are too open to opposing views, governments allow too much freedom to conservatives, Christianity must go but all other religions are fine and dandy, and banks are bad mainly in that they have the temerity to demand to know in advance how their loans might be repaid by the borrowers.
To repeat, Hedges and I no doubt disagree on the particulars. But we agree on the dysfunctional nature of our current society, with so many of the basic foundations having been turned 180 degrees away from what they formerly were based upon and now are being used to further political agendas at the expense of what is fair and just.
You don’t need Spidey senses to recognize all is far from well, and to continue on the current path is to seal the eventual date for the complete breakdown of the so-called “system.”
I see it. Hedges sees it. Maybe you’d see it, too, if you only took the time to notice.
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