AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Too many questions, not enough answers. Perfect dilemma as I can see my neurotic self going crazy right now. It starts off like this...I wish I was born during the late 40's so that I could've experiential knowledge of the 60's with somewhat of a conscious mind. This'll be real brief because I don't want to get insanely caught up in the web, while being stuck at work, so I'll do it more subjectively.

Kennedy wins the presidency. LBJ's private relationship with former FBI Director J.Edgar Hoover seems quite suspicious. Kennedy gets shot in Dallas, with such a low level of organization and security on the parts of the FBI, CIA, Secret Service...it was probably orchestrated by the FBI in some way and the Warren Commission gets buried for 75 or so years? MLK gets killed for his belief in how America should grow. Malcolm X gets killed, possibly by the someone from the Nation. My question is, American used to be very conscious, from a collective standpoint. As one nation together. Now in our day in society, we're all dumb and just take in whatever we get fed. How did we go from one extreme to the other? During the 60's, people embedding a higher level of conscious thinking were gunned down for it. Maybe subconsciously, we think there's some form of punishment when we get to that level so we like being little "sheeple" as they call it.

Then there's the disco era, cocaine addiction (a nationwide numbing of our collective consciousness), turning conscious minorities into crack addicts and coke heads, then the Reagan Administration tries spawning a new generation of 80's kids with DARE yet still promotes and perpetuates racism and dehumanization of blacks. How bout 9/11? I really hope everyone doesn't believe everything we've been shown through the media and from these very honest political figures? We're the audience, 9/11 was a great action/drama movie, created by the directing staff of the United States government and it was all done so to change the way an entire country saw one type of person, to trigger a reason to go and spend money we don't have in a war...blah!!!!