So here's what I fail to understand, how people still buy into this stuff now that's it's just so blatant. In the last, let's say, call it a year, in the U.S. there have been two grassroots protest movements getting all sorts of support, criticism and media attention - the latest batch of #OccupyWallStreet folks who are, ostensibly, against the corporate banking overlords and money exchangers who've totally gang raped the economy. And, of course, the Tea Party Movement who protested Obama's secret plan to turn us all into Socialist Europe. The thing is, neither group, is wrong, in the sense of they've totally missed the point. Wall Street and the corporatocracy have indeed swindled the economy over and over again. And the Obama administration has, of course, pushed for more government regulation, central planning and control over the lives of its citizens. [Like, I would argue, every administration has for at least the last 70 years...] But...
...how do people not see that the real problem is that Big Government and Big Business are the SAME THING? An intertwined, incestuous, symbiotic complex. Inseparable from one another. And by falling into the right/left 'rah-rah' my team, your team bullshit, false duality dialectic - you fall prey into exactly the role required to keep you powerless and them in control.
The two sides in this debate aren't right/left/business/government - because those who 'defend' business from the intrusions of government in the early 21st century in America are actually defending a crony corporatism wherein corporations buy influence, power and cartel monopolies from the government under the guise of preferential legislation they call "regulation." Big Government makes Big Business with Big Regulations.
Big Business simply cannot endure without Big Government "regulating" it - to its own advantage. Big Government cannot endure without the piles and piles of cash, influence and jobs [in the never ending D.C. to lobbyist to corporate board cycle] provided by Big Business.
Both the Tea Party folks and the #OccupyWallStreet crowd have finally woken up to the fact that they're being fucked, but can't quite figure out how and by whom. Too many still suffer from the delusion that if they can only get the right people - from their team and side of the argument, of course - then everything will be okay. And by playing into the same tired bullshit argument, nothing will ever change.
That's by design.
And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on, the fact that Americans are and will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth, it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
"My approach to the injustices is to do something active to help. I personally think protesting without any clear request or outcome is far from the most efficient approach to changing the quality of life for those in need. That's just my opinion and approach I am not telling anyone else how to live their life in this regard. Finally, while it's true investment banks and others took full advantage of all Americans in the crisis, I think we need to remember they were only able to do this because our political leaders (of both parties) gave them our money! ...but the focus is not only on what "they" did and the problems "they" created but also on things we can do to take back control our own destiny..." - Tony Robbins
"Don't look for media-approved ideologically sound Right Causes where there are none. Look out of the window instead, and do something about what you see there." - Warren Ellis
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