Filed under: corruption, politics | Tags: 99 cent store, capitalism, conspiracy, economy, environment, global depression, Rockefellers, student loans
well crap. everybody’s getting their teeth kicked in. Jobs in every echelon of society are slipping through the porous underbelly of a capitalism that has fulfilled its own destiny. I’m pissed at the executives who took our money to pad their pockets on the way out. I think they should be hung up on a one tree hill and stoned within an inch of their lives. But Capitalism taught them to steal, survival of the fittest, be smarter than the average bear, use and abuse the system to your advantage. Have I paid off all my student loans? Hell no!! Will I ever? Not If I can help it. That attitudes not good if I expect future students to attend college with loans from the government. I’m ruining it for everyone else, because I was raised to think that I want to win, I want to separate myself from the crowd, I do not want to go down with the ship. In that sense the behavior of said slimy executives who used fed bail out money to pad their coffers one last time was in the spirit of Darwin. Wouldn’t you do the same thing if you could figure out how? Of course you would, any good capitalist would. When a new 99 cent store opens, they sell ipod nano’s for 99 cents. People line up around the block. They camp to get a twelve pack of frito’s products for 99 cents. Do people actually need these items? No. But who in their right mind would say no to a 99 cent ipod? That’s Value people. And in capitalism a good deal is god.
We’re in a depression. Is this new era a conspiracy crafted by the old money families of the gilded age? I don’t think so. Have you heard about the Amero? The devaluation of the dollar? Two of my friends, coming from diametrically opposite walks of life, both believe that this world depression is a super conspiracy engineered by the oldest money on the planet. If you can crash all the world markets to the point where the current currency (i.e. the dollar, the euro) is worth absolutely nothing, you can introduce a new currency that’s backed with water, oil, oranges, any commodity that is not gold and never was. If you, a person more private than the federal government, are in charge of distributing and determining the value of this new currency, what’s to stop you from controlling the world? AHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAH! AHAHAHAHAHAH! I will make these humans my minions!!!! One of the people who buys into this theory is an entrepreneur worth millions, the other is a yoga instructor who is currently out of the country. I don’t believe the global economic crisis is a conspiracy. I believe it is the result of three decades of boom, three decades of people reluctant to take responsibilty for their consumption. The greatest tragedy will happen when people forget the environment as they continue to bitch about where the money’s gone. The truth is that the global economy and the global environment are forever connected and dependent on eachother. It is no wonder that they slip and slide together. We must consider one as we attempt to fix the other. This young lady puts it a lot better than I possibly can at the ripe old age of 33.
Remember the guy from Network who said “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!”? He was at a breaking point, as far as the network was concerned, and they meant to let him go. But what they found was that New Yorkers, and other apartment bearers everywhere, were leaning their heads out the fucking windows of their fucking apartments and yelling “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” The anchor’s frustration was mirrored by the network’s audience. Viewers identified with his rage. The ills of the world had accumulated to the point that everyone was mad as hell and nobody could take it anymore. How could the network fire him? Ratings spiked, the show was hot, they left him on; to a point. The point at which his act overwhelmed the news, it overwhelmed the content, it became more important than the ills. Why does it have to be this way? Why, when you howl in frustration does everyone get so absorbed by the howl that they forget the meaning behind it. IT IS NOT COOL TO SPEAK UP, IT IS NOT SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE TO RAISE YOUR VOICE TO A PURPOSE. And not only isn’t it socially acceptable, it’s illegal. If you protest or speak out in any way in or near a place where government business is done, for that matter anywhere where someone might hear you, the plug is pulled. The “authorities” command you to leave, and if you don’t leave, if you DON’T SHUT UP, they hurt you, they beat you, they humiliate you, they break your ankle, they taze you. If you get together with your friends in the park and start whoopin’ it up about health care or the war, the police surround you, they control you, and if it gets frenzied, if it gets intense, if people really start digging down and howling, people get arrested, people get hurt; and this is okay. Rev Yearwood wore an anti-war pin to Petraus’ testimony. Guards wouldn’t let him in. They stopped him. and when he stepped up to them, they humiliated him, eight officers fell on him, eight armed officers fell on him, they got him to the ground. He broke his ankle in the melee. College student in Florida asks John Kerry some tough questions in a room full of students, they cut him off. When he struggles he’s “ta” by police. The other students are silenced, they don’t want to be involved. Is the kid a spaz? Does he have cooties? Is he armed woth a “tazer” to defend himself? We keep cooling our jets, trying to make as little noise as possible while our government represses us on every level. Free Speech? Sure, as long as it’s a mile away from government buildings where the press can ignore it; it’s not “in the shot”, where baby bush’s virgin ears can’t hear it, it’s o.k., sure, it’s covered in the bill of rights. We citizens have lost control of our country, when we do speak out, the media bends our words, they make our news safe. When 80 thousand show up at a demonstration, they’re described as “several thousand”, when it’s 300 thousand, the media’s estimate is 100. How can it all be crooked? How can it all be corrupt? Are you mad? Cause I sure as hell am, and I’m not gonna take it anymore. And neither should you.
