Live from Music Row, Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.
CROM CARMICHAEL:
Michael when you’re trying to solve a problem, the first step and a necessary step is to identify the problem accurately and not the result of the problem that you’re trying to solve, but the problem itself. And so, for example, when you go back in history, people who thought, in fact, everyone did, thought that the earth was flat. That started with a false premise.
And so anything that mattered that was based on that premise had to be by definition wrong because it started with the wrong premise. Historically, back in the days of even Washington, which is not super long ago, bloodletting was considered a way to address certain diseases that if you bled somebody, you would bleed the disease out of them.
And what all that did was it weakened the patient. But the belief was that bloodletting was the smart thing to do. And you could have lists and lists and lists of those things. But the other thing that I’ve thought about is that I think about organized crime. People who are involved in organized crime eventually, and it doesn’t take all that long, but eventually they rationalize that what they’re doing is actually okay.
And if they’re charitable with their money, then not only is it okay, it’s actually stealing from the rich so-called or stealing or doing whatever it is you’re doing that’s corrupt is actually a good. It’s a good thing because of what you’re doing with a portion of the money. And I look at this Twitter, all this stuff coming out of Twitter.
Not one thing that’s coming out is at all surprising to me. Nothing. And it obviously isn’t surprising to the news media because the mainstream media reacts with a yawn and doesn’t even report it as news because for them it’s not. And so what I’m getting at here is that I fear that on one hand, those people who in Chicago, for example, who knew that organized crime existed, their job was to stay out of the way so that they didn’t become a target of organized crime.
The people who were part of organized crime just went along their merry way because they benefited from it. And they had already rationalized that what they were doing was good. And I look at our mainstream media today and frankly, I look at all these interest groups on the left who benefited from the activities of Twitter, Facebook, and all the other social media companies, and the news media itself.
And they’re all kind of in cahoots thinking that what they are doing is a good thing because they think the outcome is good. In the meantime, we’re running up deficits of enormous amounts. And this is true throughout history, the combination of civilizations collapsing and countries collapsing is a combination of debt and corruption. Those two things are always there.
And so you begin to see signs about our own collapse, whether or not it’s imminent or not. And when I say collapse, I just mean a complete restructuring, taking 2008, 2009, and 2010 being child’s play. You’ll have an enormous restructuring in the economy.
You may even have some change in the form of government that is much more, even more, authoritarian than the government we have today. Because it’s in the nature of people who do not have power when things are collapsing around them, who look to people who do have the power to fix the problem.
And in most cases, in fact, in virtually every case, the people who sought power at that time are terrible people. While you’re in a very good mood, in a very uplifting mood, what I’m doing is I’m going to be spending the next period of time, I don’t know exactly what, trying to examine and then articulate the essence of the problem. In other words, the earth isn’t flat, the earth is round. Bloodletting is not a good thing. Bloodletting is harmful.
I’m going to be looking at what I think is the real essence of the problem, and I’m going to be discussing that and then how to address those problems. And the metaphor that I’m going to be using is the metaphor of cancer in a person. If you don’t rid the body of cancer, if you don’t rid it, then cancer will consume and kill the body. So we need to be identifying the cancer.
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What we have here is a failure to participate. We have removed the responsibility of self governance so far from the people that they no longer understand their role. Stop asking the cancer to cure itself.