# Quote — Mark Ames, Going Postal

> People's memories are so short and America's propaganda is so powerful that most, even the greatest losers of this appropriation, have forgotten that a profound change occurred, which we now take for granted. We have been conditioned to react skeptically, even hostilely, to criticism of our current corporate values, values which form the foundation of everyday life today. What's more appalling is that huge numbers of those left behind in the wealth transfer genuflected to the new plutocratic class, celebrating the most vicious of the uber-CEOs. This craven CEO-worshipping is still going on today- middle Americans drag themselves home after work in order to gather around the television and watch billionaire assholes like Donald Trump deliver his "You're fired!" line to some desperate, stressed-out Smithers-abee.

- Author: [Mark Ames](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames.md)
- Book: [Going Postal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal.md)
- Page: 87
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Ames#Going_Postal:_Rage,_Murder,_and_Rebellion,_From_Reagan's_Workplaces_to_Clinton's_Columbine_and_Beyond_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal/peoples-memories-are

## More from this book

> Zero tolerance policies, heavy police responses to what would have once been considered empty boy boasting, and the increased fear and suspicion that they inspire only fuel more rage. The toxic school culture is only reinforced by repressive measures.

p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal/zero-tolerance-policies.md)

> Americans wanted to blame everything but Columbine High for the massacre- they blamed a violent media, Marilyn Manson, Goth culture, the Internet, the Trench Coat Mafia, video games, lax gun control laws, and liberal values. And still skipping over the school, they peered into the opposite direction, blaming the moral and/or mental sickness, or alleged homosexuality, of these two boys, as if they were exceptional freaks in a school of otherwise happy kids. They searched all over the world for a motive, except for one place: the scene of the crime.

p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal/americans-wanted-to-blame.md)

> As the Economic Policy Institute reported, "What income growth there was over the 1979-1989 period was driven primarily by more work at lower wages".

p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-ames/going-postal/as-the-economic.md)