California's Gilroy "garlic festival" shooting — typical American stuff

© 2019 Peter Free

 

29 July 2019

 

 

Garlic festival

 

You would not expect someone to go to a garlic festival — just to exorcise his anger — by killing people.

 

Including a 6 year old.

 

 

But that's normal behavior in the United States

 

Where our corporatist culture's bubbling violence expresses itself every day in:

 

 

imprisoning millions

 

(of mainly black people)

 

funding a massively huge, disproportionately unproductive people-killing machine

 

(the US military industrial complex)

 

lying about any and everything —

 

repressing and oppressing

 

(whatever it can — all day, every day)

 

and

 

expressing amplified outrage about all manner of things

 

except

 

those that most matter.

 

 

The United States is, fundamentally . . .

 

. . . one of the most psychologically twisted nations on the planet.

 

Other geographies are sensibly afraid of our spreading madness.

 

 

The moral? — You thought Africa had problems?

 

Too bad that garlic does not fend American vampires off.

 

If only we could see ourselves through a sane society's eyes.