I HAVE A NEW HERO JEREMY METEO GEOPFERT THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH JEREMY THIS IS TODAY S AMERICA . IT MAY BE A BIT LONG BUT READ IT THROUGH Venting. We live today in slavery. Most of us arent even aware of the subtlety of the situation. We are slaves of consumption, slaves of debt, slaves of possessions. Children are told to go to college, get a good job, earn money, and spend money, saving for retirement. Every fiscal action within this empty so-called capitalist society is meant to further tighten the chains around the neck of the common man and woman. Intelligence is looked upon with contempt, a concern for the well-being of others is seen as suspicious, and conformity is the golden rule. Our rights have been systematically destroyed, sometimes quietly, sometimes very publicly. Everything is a criminal act, enforced by an ever-increasing militarization of the police force. When we were in school, we were taught about the horrors that occurred in other countries- a pervasive police or military force bent on punishing those who speak out or act out against the government. Those people in America were at one time called patriots. Today, those same people are radicals. America is not a nation by the people, for the people. It is a nation by the corporations for profit, with no regard to the rights of the workers on which those corporations so carelessly tread. When a person faces fines in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for downloading music, while white collar crime is punished by a slap on the wrist, it is easy to see for whom the law works for. Lobbyists spend billions of dollars stuffing the pockets of our government, who in turn churns out law after law protecting special interest industries at the expense of every working-class person. Education for educations sake is taboo. Why bother going to college for a degree that one cant use? Why bother going to college at all? So you can drown in debt when you enter the job market and find out that no ones willing to pay you a living wage? So you have a piece of paper that shows youre able to be trained? We are in the bondage of a consumption-at-all-costs lifestyle. Credit cards, mortgages, student loans, car payments, insurance, internet access, cell phone, food, clothes, electricity, water. On and on. Living paycheck to paycheck is not living, its surviving. When you turn on the news and see that its nothing more than whos dating who and the latest Hollywood controversy, while wars rage both in America and around the world, you are being conditioned to care about the shallow, the mundane, the boring. The government, as a whole, does not care about you. The government believes that if it ceased to exist, so would humanity. In this sense, I agree with them, as we live in a nation of selfish, self-seeking, self-important individuals who frown upon charity while not considering what its like to be in the shoes of another, even for a brief moment. There is not empathy. Our society is a greed-driven, sociopathic state which values the money in a persons bank account more than the value of that individuals contribution to society. We send soldiers around the world to fight the ghosts of imagined enemies, bankrupting the nation while killing the bravest of our nations youth. We fall into the farce of religion, promising that dead soldiers go to heaven, while somehow thinking that Islamic terrorists 72 virgins is somehow any more ridiculous than our own vision of the afterlife. Children sucked directly out of school and onto the front line, with promises of college tuition dangled in front of them like a carrot on a string. Thats a fairly strong endorsement for the inelasticity of demand for a college education- people are willing to put their lives at risk to learn, killing others for a better life for themselves. Nothing changes. Although the party names may differ, their goals are the same- control the populace and condemn any who stand up against the corrupt and criminal acts of those in power. Criminalize those who leak information about the governments own criminal endeavors. Call them treasonous, call for their heads, and make sure the people think its in their best interest for the government to trample upon inalienable rights under the guise of national security, that its somehow better that there is no transparency. Just because something is legal does not make it moral, and just because something is illegal does not make it immoral. Exposing the criminal acts of a government isnt treason; it is ones duty to bring the truth to light, no matter how ugly. Your neighbors are your enemies, because their politics are different from yours, and youll be damned before you have them over for a picnic. There is no sense of community, no sense of working for the common good. Its all about what one can gain in a given circumstance with no regard for the consequences it brings for the lives of others
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:36:04 +0000
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