As anyone even vaguely aware of the contemporary world understands, essentially, it make little or no difference who becomes the next president, as ultimately they are all of the same shadow party, governmental-military-corporatism, and manipulated by the same overarching control on the national level and, above that, the international one, on the surface represented by the Bildiberg Group, The Council on Foreign Affairs, the Tri-Lateral Commission, the major petroleum and financial interests, etc., and above that . . . .

Yet, considering how "the people" have arisen on so many earlier occasions, even recently with the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the War Between the States, the Spanish Civil War, and so on down the long list, why is it that Americans sit mutely and passively by permitting their country to be thrust into a disastrous and clearly pointless (save to steal oil) war, a cataclysmic corruption of the economy, a vast erosion of personal freedoms, the degeneration of the Constitution and the liberties therein provided, innumerable instances of malfeasance in office, rigged elections and a stolen presidency, with every likelihood of it happening again in half a year, etc., ad infinitum. And all this has elicited is an indifferent disagreement with a vague conception of what has happen, when there has been any response at all.

Perhaps the poser sent to me recently, a "magical" illusion achieved by misdirection, set something in my mind working. Certainly I have not read Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), nor 1984 (George Orwell), nor It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis) for a long time, but clearly recall them all, and recently I became aware that in those brief irregular periods I spend away from my work trying to find something relaxing and distracting on television, save for an occasional old film (which only supplements the point I am about to make)---it provides little or nothing.

The overwhelming majority of all television time—in excess of ninety percent—consists of three preoccupations, distractions, or, to cite my allusion to the "magical" problem I dispatched recently, misdirection. And as would be expected it is done brilliantly. For while this country doesn't know how to run many things efficiently, it excels in two: advertising and public relations and the corporate dominance of society. Here we are dealing with the former, the sole purpose of which is to make the watcher, the listener, preoccupied, even entranced, by what he/she is watching, hearing, and absorbing. The pitch, as it is called in the persuasion business, is less apparent and more basic than might be imagined. It is specifically to not let the subject know that it is the preoccupation of attention—not the product that is the primary purpose of the promotion.

For example, today, Sunday, reviewing the seventy-five channels we can receive: fifteen were on sports, six were on food, six were on sex (preoccupation of, not by, of course, the female form which was once centered on the bosom, later on the buttocks, and now on the crotch), six were devoted to religion; three movies, a completely propagandistic and astonishingly inaccurate trash on the JFK murder on the "History" channel, etc. Two channels had information broadcasts, one on Austria and its buildings, landscape and cities, another on the making of an independent film. The remainder were advertising programs. Not one (at that time: 1:00 PM) on news, politics, or legitimate history. Why? Because the point was a concentrated distraction, a complete misdirection, by The Office of Truth and Information that monitors all that is broadcast, and most of what is printed.

Did you know that what was once thousands of newspapers in the United States are presently gather together under five or six master corpor-ations. Ditto magazines. Check how many actual publishers of books there are, now, compared to the hundred once prospering despite their (illusion-ary) differentiated "imprints." Random House national and internationally has about forty-five; Simon & Schuster twenty-five, HarperCollins almost sixty-five, Doubleday, ten. And of what over-conglomerate are they all an elements. It has no name but its interests are international and it supercedes governments. Control what the public sees and reads and one controls what it thinks; control what it thinks and one controls the nation; control governments and one dominates large portions of the world.

We do not fear Big Brother, because he wears the face of our favorite politician, or television or film personality! These things sometimes get discovered, but, usually about seventy-five years too late.

Remember, now whatever, tomorrow the world!