Who said this today?
I can provide a link if needed. This is either a cry for help or, most likely 
, a purposely ironic rant
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I tried yesterday to make a point about this business in Ferguson, and I did not spend enough time actually thinking about how I wanted to say it in order to be the most clearly communicable and understood. The artificiality of this, and I do mean artificiality. These were not riots.
They planned it. It was a strategic plan, and the media fell right in line, predicting it, and counting down to it and heightening tensions. And so when it happens, it was expected, and therefore it can't be a riot. The fact that it was expected and still happened, what does it say about the civility of our culture? What does it say about the overall civilization that we have?
Here we were told what was gonna happen and the media, in the pre-days and hours leading up to the event, heightened the tension, the anticipation. We had a countdown to an event we all knew was coming, and that was the Constitution being violated.
When you get right down to it, that's what the event was. And it seemed, even though it happened and we knew it was gonna happen, it just seemed surreal. Everything seemed to happen on a media schedule, on a media timetable. Everything seemed to happen because of the media.
This riot was planned. It was gonna happen no matter what. How bad it was gonna be was the only thing unknown. The actions of the authorities to stop it or not stop it, that was an unknown, but we knew it was gonna happen. Rodney King was not like this, for example. The Watts riots in the sixties were not like this. Trayvon Martin was not like this. This has all been staged. I'm not saying conspiratorially. I'm not saying the Wizard of Oz is behind the screen, behind the curtain pulling marionette type strings on puppets and this kind of thing.
It was preventable. But nobody made any effort to stop it. That's another thing about this that kind of troubles me in the deep, dark crevices of my mind, is this acceptance, okay, it's gonna happen, it's justified, whatever, there was no effort to stop it.
The only difference in reality TV and other TV is that the writers in reality TV are not members of unions, and that's it. The whole thing feels like a scripted event that I know in advance the outcome. And, therefore, it isn't news. And none of it was spontaneous. We tuned in all knowing what was gonna happen. We tuned in expecting what was going to happen. There was not any thought given by anybody to stopping it. And what happened? Sheer barbarism. People's businesses were destroyed. That's real. Real live bullets were fired at people. Real live Molotov cocktails were used.
But there wasn't any effort to stop it. And then the next day we got questions on television, which should be absurd, but instead they were legitimate: "Did authorities let Ferguson burn?" It was a legitimate question, sadly. "Did authorities let Ferguson burn?" Why? There was no effort to stop it. When the Rodney King riots, the Watts riots of the sixties, when those things started, there were efforts to stop them. I mean, they played out to a certain point, and I don't know if you could call 'em great TV or what have you, and they were structured and planned and so forth. Again, nothing is brand-new in 2014. Everything has a precedent. But this is destructive in ways way beyond the riot itself.
At the end of all this, the real objective is to make you think that it's ludicrous and ridiculous to oppose any of this or speak out against it 'cause you can't stop it. The grievances are too real. The country is too unjust. The country is illegitimate and immoral, and it's taken 250 years for this to come to light. But you'd better learn to accept that, and you'd better learn to accept that if you've been on the wrong side, i.e., in the majority in this country since it was founded, your day is coming. That's what this is about. And all of these events are just steps taken in that direction.
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