first time listener to The Chris Hedges Youtube channel.

and just the one video, most recent, called Rule of Idiots.

feel like one, about now.

but while I attempt to think the stunning events- and comments- over,

I have to say Hedges' words reminded me of a book a college professor assigned, a long, long time ago: Noam Chomsky's Necessary Illusions.

I hadn't thought of it for decades.

probably writing this comment in shock and a great deal of sadness and confusion

** what led me to Chris Hedges' channel:

an 'Al Jazeera English' video (also a new channel, for me- I was searching for non U.S. generated news besides NPR's BBC) from early hours today, June 22, "they cooked up their own intelligence"