American mules
by Don Nash, Unknown News
Nov. 9, 2004
September 11, 2001 was, supposedly, the day that changed America. But was it really change, or just an excuse to act out America’s prejudices and hate?
Americans are not partial to difference. Cultural difference, race difference, religious difference, it’s all the same annoyance. America doesn’t have to understand other people or cultures, we’re America. America is above having to offer explanations or reasons. If America wants, it takes. If America wants to kill, well then, America will. We’re America and we’re number one and the whole world wants to be like us. Right. America is preoccupied with business. The business of America is business, corporate business.
Corporate business is about money, incredibly vast sums of money. Incredibly vast sums of money removes ethical and moral limitations and separates Americans from the rest of the civilized world. America is really about greed. Greed is the national heritage that has been passed down from generation to generation.
America’s obsession with wealth and possessions, was the impetus for stealing an entire continent from America’s indigenous people. America put up the pretence of negotiating treaties with the Native peoples but it was all political farce, and the Natives were slaughtered and removed from the public view. To this day, Native peoples are still kept out of sight and consigned to reservations. The American people were, in the end, fully in agreement with a cultural genocide worked on Native America by our government.
Americans have never been overly concerned with human rights or the condition of humanity in general. For instance, slavery nags America’s conscience and is our lingering disgrace. America’s civil war was supposed to bring an end to slavery, but in the almost one hundred and fifty years since the Emancipation Proclamation, black America still has not achieved equal status with white America. If one were to ask just about any black American about their current status in American life, their answer would be that black Americans do not have the same standing as white Americans.
The relegation to second class status for most people of color in America, is a designation and belief that is deeply ingrained in the greed mentality of ruling class America. They need servants and underlings. If America’s upper crust didn’t have the lesser folk, who would they act superior to? Who would be the brunt of the arrogance? Who would do the menial work? Who would be around for the super rich to trickle down a bit of economic urine on? Who would fuel the economic engine that benefits America’s aristocracy?
The American aristocracy has created a tragic and silly illusion that is part cartoon and part ethereal fiction. The cartoon shows a mule pulling America’s corporate cart and the mule is enticed by a carrot tied to the end of a stick. The ethereal fiction part is the American people that buy into and believe this corporate nightmare.
America’s aristocracy has created an entire under-culture of servants and slaves that are eager to chase the carrot and ’pull the corporate cart’. The carrot then becomes the promise of benefits, health insurance, retirement plans, livable wages, and affordable housing. The working American mule chases the incredible shrinking carrot in complete denial that the corporate masters are cheating them out of a small rotting carrot that the mules were promised in the first place.
There is an evil twist to the deception that is twenty-first century America. The American aristocracy expects its working mules to sacrifice their children in service to corporate masters. The required service poses itself as the American “all-volunteer” military. The American aristocracy uses our government to wage wars of greed and America’s working mules supply their children to be the arms and legs of the war machine. Sadly, this war machine tends to eat arms, legs, bodies, and souls.
America’s oligarchy does not supply its children to be fodder for the machine. Who would be left to carry on the great American aristocracy? On top of all the other wonderful privileges that are saddled to the working American mule, doing the actual work of ’fighting and dying’ for America’s aristocracy and their visions of wealth, encompasses ensuring a never-ending supply of oil for the American working dream.
The American aristocracy knows full well if the oil runs dry, their aristocratic world will come crashing down around their aristocratic heads. The ruling American aristocracy is a significantly minor number of people in America. If the vast herds of working American mules become deprived of their fossil fueled narcotic, there will be a bloody revolution in America that will make other revolutions pale in comparison.
This very tiny aristocratic elite has pulled off history’s single largest con job. The working American mule will never get into the aristocratic circles. Our mule will never get into the country clubs, the organizations of privilege, the committees that rule the political parties. Our mule will never bray in the halls of Congress. Mr. and Mrs. working American mule will, however, pay for the privilege of serving a tiny and ruling American aristocracy. They will fight the wars and sacrifice their children.
The American working folk have been commercially programmed to serve their betters. An American climate of acquiescence has been infused and televised and broadcast and internalized and dramatized and celebrated and genotyped into the American psyche. This climate of service to the aristocracy has been pounded into the American soul by corporate American religion. It has been sermonized and beautified and glorified then sold to the spiritually weak as breakfast bars for the damned.
Religion is patriotic and it is corporate American. Red, white, and blue and goes to church too. Reverend Jerry Robertson Schenk, C. E. O. and Arch Bishop of the First Church of the Holy Buck, proclaims that “God commands that you serve up your children to die for corporate America.” The real true believing Christian serves corporate America and the American corporate government. God may want Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, and several variant other religious types to die as well, but God prefers His people to be American corporate Christian. It says so in the Bible, ask our Rev. J. R. Schenk.
Since God is on the side of American aristocracy and corporate government, it goes without saying that whatever America does is perfectly fine. Preemptive war is Biblical, it is American, and it is good business. Genocide is Biblical and it is American history. Native Americans understand that concept all too well.
Genocide is also highly profitable. The great working American mule pulling that corporate aristocratic cart knows and believes that America and God Almighty wouldn’t have it any other way. That must be the reason. Why else would everyday Americans willingly follow blindly along with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide? Why else would any American believe that America’s president would never lie to them or the world and then wage an illegal preemptive war on changing rationales and reasons that equate to deceit on a staggering scale?
This terrorism becomes the hushed and whispered word, terrorist. Directed at corporate America by those un-businesslike Islamic extremists or Islamists of unprofitable origins if you will, and you now have the uniquely American version of the “boogey-man!”
America in its single-minded support of Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people, enrages the Muslim world. The Muslim world ponders the question, “where is the American justice?”
Considering America’s myopic and mono-maniacal support of Israel, the answer begs another veto of a Security Council resolution at the United Nations.
Genocide knows only supporting partners. Israel wages genocide on the Palestinian people and the U.S. wages genocide on the Iraqi people. It's all highly patriotic and highly profitable. Profitability, patriotism, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, oil, politics, aristocracy, greed, deceit, and genocide. America don’t need no stinking reason.
© 2004, by the author.
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America’s aristocracy has created an entire under-culture of servants and slaves that are eager to chase the carrot and ’pull the corporate cart’.
The carrot then becomes the promise of benefits, health insurance, retirement plans, livable wages, and affordable housing.
The working American mule chases the incredible shrinking carrot in complete denial that the corporate masters are cheating them out of a small rotting carrot that the mules were promised in the first place.
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