Journalist Patrick Lawrence, under the title “Patrick Lawrence: Late-Imperial Maladies,” published a special feature on April 18 in Consortium News expressing his personal disgust at the general decay of civilization we are living through. Beginning each sentence with “I am sick of…” he blasts: the Israeli genocide; the lies in all the “corporate media” about that genocide; the insanity that opposition to this genocide is declared “anti Semitism,” (he himself is usually described as an anti-
Semite, and his Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been permanently censored); the lie that the Ukraine war was “unprovoked”; and similar lies about China. He concludes:
“The worst part of living this distance from reality—or maybe the best part—is the knowledge, even if it is only subliminal, that we cannot go on like this. The American imperium, which is the author of all our vaporous conceits, cannot go on indefinitely pretending about Israel’s innocence, and who the Russians are, and the evil intent of Chinese, and all the rest.
