[kj] (OT) Worst Singers - barbarisms

[folk devil]

No arguments here, Brendan.

It’s interesting when you mention that there would be, and
has been, a change of Obama rhetoric to people, as a common reply is, ‘well it
(his election) is a step in the right direction’. It’s a step in no direction!
Everything  is still under ‘corporate
control’, and Obama is subject to this like every puppet before him, just as
long as everyone ‘thinks’ things are better now (or will be). Obama has almost become
a Christ fixation with some.
People like 'we' are still viewed as the crazies by many, and many won't lobby or boycott anything as 'our' lives are so intrinsically controlled by the shitstem.
On a side note, go into any large supermarket in the states and see how no one really gives a damn about our environment..'plastic (bag) ok?', no it bloody isn't!'Do you have any eco friendly shower gel?' 'Huh, what's that, dude?' :(
Why do many Americans think being able to build cars that go 32 miles to the gallon as a huge advancement?.Euro law has had every car being built for the past 10 or so yearas to have to go at least 37. There are cars that go the width of America on solar power only, but we can't use it for our own cars. Nearly 30% of Germany is on Alternative energies, already...America cannot lead in something they are 25 years behind in...they need to learn..




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From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:15:12 +1100
Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Worst Singers






















What I mean about us being barbaric are
things like our collusion by default to the murder of innocent people, via
paying tax to a ‘government’ (a front organisation to lull people
into the belief that they have some control when they have almost none) who
tell lies & create fear in order to start wars that profit a small
minority, paying tax that goes into the military / industrial / political /
religious machine, participating in an economy that favours the rich over the
poor. When you look at the alternatives, what could be done with that money…food,
clean water, power, education, health…it’s nuts, and the whole system
of government is completely corrupt. It’s not democratic at all, you have
no real say where your tax money goes and no real ability to opt out or create
an alternative. Look at Obama, the great new hope. Immediately changing tack
from the rhetoric of change, to ‘maintain a steady keel because we don’t
want to scare the markets’ (can cite the reference if you want). It’s
amazing how easily we’re fucked over, and we buy it. 

 

I can’t really see it any other way
than those people with access to the most power & resources are the cause
of most of the problem, because they don’t want to share. Not only do
they not want to share, they don’t want others to have enough for
themselves or the resources to have enough for themselves, not if there’s
a profit in keeping them down (artificial scarcity, the destruction of surplus
food to maintain prices, while people starve to death, terminator seeds that
self-destruct after one season…). 

 

I mean, really, if there was a general
consensus amongst the power elite that it’d be a good idea to start
moving resources away from war and into increasing the standard of living for
everyone (which would be a far cheaper and more effective way to improve security
anyway), don’t you think we’ve had enough decades or centuries to
do it? Isn’t that really, without pontificating or debating on politics
or philosophy, what we should be doing? Is there any rational argument against gradually
de-commissioning the military worldwide and putting the resources into the
exact opposite? I find it disingenuous that people can come up with any sort of
objection to that basic idea at all, and I tend to chose the latter of ‘re-educate
or disassociate.’

 

The majority of über-rich people &
companies only want to get richer & more powerful, enough is never enough.
Never enough market share or profit. Once you have monopoly control of any
given market it’s time to squeeze the customers for more, control the
resources to create artificial scarcity, convince people they need more and
more plastic pieces of shit in order to be acceptable to the rest of society,
move into other markets, lobby the govt for more power, lower tax rates, less
protection for consumers etc…

 

What is sad is the part we all play in it…the
system is the problem – the Shitstem as Lydon calls it. What about this –
trying to save some money for retirement and then realising one day that you
have money invested in funds that cover dozens or hundreds of companies, more
than you could ever keep track of (index funds etc), some of which goes to companies
that make weapons, companies that lobby the politicians who are supposed to
look after our best interests to instead look after the interests of the rich ‘elite’,
companies that prey on people in 3rd world countries, paying them a pittance
for their labour, then as soon as they start to get some sort of increase in
their standard of living and demand higher wages, they move on and find another
country of impoverished people who are back at square one…and leave.

 

This is madness!

 

Seriously, you don’t need to be a
depressive or hippie to bemoan the state of things, in fact the more aware /
enlightened you are, the more likely you are to see how we’re living, how
we could be living differently, and be uneasy with the disjoint.

 

That’s what I’m referring to
when I say that we live in a barbaric society. And I feel justified in saying ‘we’
are barbaric, because of our general lack of awareness, our participation and
lack of resistance to the Shitstem, how we allow ourselves to be manipulated,
and how it’s our labour that gets the job done. We’re not the
brains we’re the stupid grunts.

 

I still strongly believe that the average person
in the street is decent, but largely unaware of the Matrix so to speak, and
therefore the effect of their actions, which they are led to believe are
ethical and lawful. 

 

Hence I’ve been going on about why
haven’t all of us people who are aware of the way things are done
something about it, the power of boycott / lobby / increasing awareness, by people
all over the world behaving in such a way as to negate as much as possible
their default participation in the local politico-economic system and function
instead as part of an international country…

 

I mean fuck’s sake, at least we’d
be able to come up with the world’s first decent national anthem (I vote
for Savage Freedom).

 








  
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