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R.I.P., U.S.A.
Hey! Just wanted to say I really enjoy reading Unknown News, even the stuff I disagree with -- it's one of the most interesting public forums out there, and we all know there's a lot out there.
Amongst all the anger and despair and disbelief and outrage that seems to be a common thread amongst the Unknown News constituency (and the online community in general), a recurring question seems to be, "When will the people say they have had enough? When will they rise up and do something?"
Indeed, from whence comes revolution? From the French Revolution to the Bolshevik Revolution and back into antiquity, the masses rise up when they are destitute and starving to death, when they have lost everything and have nothing left to lose. As long as Amerikan Sheeple continue to consume their sugar-laden Dunkin Donuts lattes by the gallon, drive their gas-guzzling SUVs and Jeeps ("66 Years and Still Hauling Scum!") to Wal-Mart to buy a jar of 99-cent pickles, watch "American Idiot" and "Fox News" on TV and scribble their nasty little thoughts on the internet, nothing is ever going to change. And by continuing this bloated, unsustainable lifestyle, they are feeding the enemy, that is "Big Business."
For the overarching problem is corporatism (aka fascism), which is the inevitable result of the socio-economic system called capitalism. Government serves only to support the corporations, and both are bankrolled by the banks, which make money no matter how the economy is. In fact, history shows that banks get wealthy during times of war, poverty and crisis, so it should be no surprise that banking agents love to sow the seeds of unrest behind the scenes.
So, the next time you watch TV, eat fast food, play an online video game, rent a movie, drive your car, talk on your cell-phone or shop retail at a chain store, just remember that you are supporting the enemy, and you have no right to complain about what the government does on their behalf. A true revolution would start if the people decided to starve the corporation, but this would involve the sacrifice of our obese, bourgeois lifestyle, and a return to a much simpler, sustainable form of living. Frankly, I don't see it happening.
Personally, I never thought America was such a great idea in the first place. I mean, come on, we stole
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Howdy, Ace.
We usually have a cynical outlook, so it's nice to meet someone who's cynical about cynicism. I don't have anything significant to disagree with you about. Just three little quibbles:
• Yes, it seems more and more likely that America is doomed, and in the near future, or sooner, freedom could be an utterly empty word in my native land. You sarcastically suggest that's no great loss, but I'd say, that's a damn sad thing. And it's all the more reason to argue for saving the democracy and the restoration of common sense.
• It's only a cliché, of course, when folks tell us we have no right to complain, but it's a silly cliché. The right to complain is among the rock bottom rights of all Americans. It'll be the last right to be snatched away, and as of mid-August 2007 we still have the right to complain. So we're still using it.
• It's a recurring theme in our incoming emails, but I don't give a rat's rectum about the formation of the Fed in 1913. Makes sense to complain about what the Fed does -- that's living in the real world. But arguing against its existence is a trip to fantasy land. The Fed exists. It's been around for 94 years, and it's not going to evaporate. It's like bitching that the IRS is unConstitutional, or arguing against the establishment of Israel, or the designated hitter rule ... Right or wrong, these things do exist, have existed for a long time, and aren't going to cease existence in our lifetimes. Deal.
Returning to your main theme, which seems to be, All is lost, I'd say, Not so fast, stranger.
Here's an obvious allegory: We know there are icebergs ahead, and the captain is very stupid and very stubborn, but we're not going to stop shouting about it. Perhaps we'll be able to convince people to relieve the captain of his command and put someone sane in his place. Perhaps we'll fail, and if so we can turn our attention toward helping people into the lifeboats.
But until the ship strikes the berg, nobody will ever shut us up.
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someone else's land and slaughtered
them! Nice beginning, patriots! The
slave-fueled plantation economy morphed into the industrial revolution, which led to the entrenchment of financial interests in the land, and since 1913, when the Federal Reserve Act was snuck through Congress, the U.S.A. (and its strong-arm collection agency, the IRS), has been essentially a private corporation masquerading as public government.
The internet, of course, was originally designed as an information-gathering and dissemination project of the U.S. Military, and it is still overseen by all branches of the U.S. intelligence community. Its primary function, other than as a stream of additional commerce for insatiable corporations, is as a vehicle to channel and maintain dissent. As long as we are all typing our angry little letters on our computer keyboards, we aren't really doing anything, are we? This containment and monitoring of dissent via blogs, news forums, gaming venues and free video download sites has been completely successful; the rulers have cannily created a means to entice the populace to articulate and share their subversive yet impotent fantasies in public, easily monitored and for all to see, a genius stroke in my opinion.
So by all means, keep chanting that Republicans are Evil and Democrats are Wimps. Keep bellowing that you really don't like Pres. Bush. See where it gets you.
All facile cynicism aside, I think we're screwed. Have a Rainbow Day!
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Personally, I never thought America was such a great idea in the first place.
I mean, come on, we stole someone else's land and slaughtered them!
Nice beginning, patriots!
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