The media, once a tool for exposing and testing issue-durability is itself a “Trojan” adversary. The public no longer has a mechanism for truth-assessment, an ally in fact-based discernment. It becomes quite easy for a President, or any commentator for that matter, to leverage the importance of their position by simply stating that the matter is steeped in the cauldron defined simply as “American Interests”. An example of the ever expanding and always elusive domain of what I refer to as Slither-Etiquette; the medium which states the following: “You can tell them whatever you like so long as you never tell them exactly what it is.”
The policy of political Government is to remain elusive by expressing the art of being illusive, the effect of which is to position Americans at each other’s throats in conflict over issues neither side knows for certain. So long as the concept of “American Interests” can mean anything you can never really object on specific and relevant grounds. Much of what Government now does, without “meaning”, occurs for a specific benefit and purpose never intended to be known because it is understood that if you did there would be a consensus of specific opposition.
Here is the contemporary definition of “American Interests”: any issue which may be un-categorically attributed to an economic outcome which may affect a vested interest in command of political influence.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
