How to Produce a Disoriented Citizen

by Mike Booth

In case you were wondering, here’s how to produce a thoroughly disoriented citizen:

• Tell him he’s superior to people from other countries, colors, religions, ideas.
• Put a gun in his hand.
• Flag-wave him to death.
• Repeat more, louder lies.
• Distract him with hard-core consumption.
• Make money his measure of all things.
• Make false promises.
• Bribe him.
• Frighten him.
• Stuff him full of nationalism and patriotism.
• Jail him.
• Shoot him.
• Isolate him.
• Sanctify his greed.
• Banalize him.
• Send his children to war.
• Re-engineer the electoral process so as to install low men in high places.
• Tell him torture is necessary.
• Feed him false philosophy, white-trash values.
• Offer him venal role models.
• Convince him that speculation is “business.”
• Convince him that if he’s not rich there’s something wrong with him.
• Fill him up with that old-time religion.
• Imprison him.
• Under educate him.
• Steal his constitutional rights.

That should do it.

Read the whole story in my ebook, The Turncoat Chronicles.

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Author: Michael Booth

Michael Booth, the creator of TrumpAndAllTheRest.com, is a US-born publicist, author and online publisher who has lived in a Spanish village in the foothills of Sierra Nevada for the past five decades. Though better known abroad for his fine-art printmaking sites and online magazine, Booth's day job for the past decade and a half, until recently, was his communications agency, dedicated principally to designing and implementing Internet strategies for Spanish companies and institutions. It took him a long time to get out of publicity and into writing but it was worth the wait. View all posts by Michael Booth