The last call for clown talent
The last hurrah. Bring your brutality clothes, because this week will be it. Whether it's your crying pants or your shit underwears, include them in your travel bag this weekend. You will be needing one or the other or perhaps both. I said it before, and it should probably be said again, that you are approaching the line in the sand very quickly. Hesitate to push it further.
Now, let's move on to the topic of what we've become (or haven't become) as people. We should note that although we are continuously taught the lessons of the past, we rarely allow said lessons to stand firm within the boundaries of our minds. Maybe it can be said that each generation must learn its lessons by trial and blood, not by speech and not by book. After all, each generation fights at least one war. Okay. Is that the only reason why we repeatedly jump into fires? I guess we can't disprove it, but I like to give the human mind more credit. Maybe we simply lack the truth in what's happened in the past. I wonder if people sincerely recall labor struggles of last 150 years? How many people died as a direct result of capitalism without boundaries? How many people lived mindless lives at the whim of consumerism? Nobody really knows, but the number is no doubt mind and colon-blowing. And truthfully, we all buy shit all the time, and we say that there must exist some sacrifice for progress. Right, progress... as in more, cheaper, better technological goods. Keep in mind that we (somebody) pay(s) a price regardless of how much we pay out of our hard-won freedom accounts. I stray from the point... maybe. What are our values? Who's sold us on the value of more? On cheaper? On better? When do we re-evaluate our values? Did we vote for this? Yes, most certainly, but not at the polls. We've voted in large numbers (100% turnout), however, at every American Eagle, Target, Wal-Mart, A&F, Sears, and K-Mart (to a lesser degree). I, for one, like to think that in the depths of our human souls, that no, we could have never voted for this. But, very quickly, as creatures of habit, we've been led into this, and we are addicted. The poll voting follows suit accordingly. We were not led here by choice, no, but rather because we had no choice. The real beneficiaries of our stupidity make up a small percentage of the total, and are just as stupid, but in a different way. They reap extraordinary rewards for our habits. They seek to keep us addicted. They divide us and turn us on one another, break us, manipulate us generally, threaten us, and hold a variety of ideas and things as bait. Since the beginning of our industrial economy, we've fell victim to all of these tactics. One, because we have less organizing ability and seemingly less at stake, both of which generally are increased substantially by money, and two, it seems as Americans we've had the illusory "American Dream" mentality, which has also been fed to us in a creative way. Somewhere, in each of us, suppressed or worn on the sleeve, there's a thought that one day we might, by our own power and strength, crawl out into monetary freedom. This thought alone is as destructive as any real malicious action. The idea, like a cancer, metastasizes when one seeks the capitalistically friendly task of exploit.
So, again, we find ourselves in the historically familiar realm of cannibalism, chewing the arms and legs off of one another, making us all immobile human torsos. The only danger is the risk that we completely consume each other, leaving nobody left to consume. Maybe this is the ultimate alternative.
I only have one wish before everyone gets the blood lust, that we stop and think about legislation, like that proposed in this state, in its true form - a simple yet effective set of words stripping the rights of people to collectively agree to terms of labor; to dissolve a grouping of people that pose a power risk to a minority of individuals in power. The right to collectively organize, which is indeed a right by the way, was paid for in much more than millions or even billions in promised savings that we value so highly (did somebody say values?). This, I'm arguing, without even touching on the issue of what the wages and benefits of all workers mean for the well-being of everybody or what the workers mean to this state. I wonder if anybody in the private sector, with or without unalienable rights, is considering how this might affect them in the near future? Probably it will allow them to avoid union dues in order that they achieve the american dream! Sometimes a plan just comes together, which feels great from my head to my pants.
So, without further mental manipulation on my part, I'm putting my things together for a special vacation (with friends, at least). See you in Madison.
Now, let's move on to the topic of what we've become (or haven't become) as people. We should note that although we are continuously taught the lessons of the past, we rarely allow said lessons to stand firm within the boundaries of our minds. Maybe it can be said that each generation must learn its lessons by trial and blood, not by speech and not by book. After all, each generation fights at least one war. Okay. Is that the only reason why we repeatedly jump into fires? I guess we can't disprove it, but I like to give the human mind more credit. Maybe we simply lack the truth in what's happened in the past. I wonder if people sincerely recall labor struggles of last 150 years? How many people died as a direct result of capitalism without boundaries? How many people lived mindless lives at the whim of consumerism? Nobody really knows, but the number is no doubt mind and colon-blowing. And truthfully, we all buy shit all the time, and we say that there must exist some sacrifice for progress. Right, progress... as in more, cheaper, better technological goods. Keep in mind that we (somebody) pay(s) a price regardless of how much we pay out of our hard-won freedom accounts. I stray from the point... maybe. What are our values? Who's sold us on the value of more? On cheaper? On better? When do we re-evaluate our values? Did we vote for this? Yes, most certainly, but not at the polls. We've voted in large numbers (100% turnout), however, at every American Eagle, Target, Wal-Mart, A&F, Sears, and K-Mart (to a lesser degree). I, for one, like to think that in the depths of our human souls, that no, we could have never voted for this. But, very quickly, as creatures of habit, we've been led into this, and we are addicted. The poll voting follows suit accordingly. We were not led here by choice, no, but rather because we had no choice. The real beneficiaries of our stupidity make up a small percentage of the total, and are just as stupid, but in a different way. They reap extraordinary rewards for our habits. They seek to keep us addicted. They divide us and turn us on one another, break us, manipulate us generally, threaten us, and hold a variety of ideas and things as bait. Since the beginning of our industrial economy, we've fell victim to all of these tactics. One, because we have less organizing ability and seemingly less at stake, both of which generally are increased substantially by money, and two, it seems as Americans we've had the illusory "American Dream" mentality, which has also been fed to us in a creative way. Somewhere, in each of us, suppressed or worn on the sleeve, there's a thought that one day we might, by our own power and strength, crawl out into monetary freedom. This thought alone is as destructive as any real malicious action. The idea, like a cancer, metastasizes when one seeks the capitalistically friendly task of exploit.
So, again, we find ourselves in the historically familiar realm of cannibalism, chewing the arms and legs off of one another, making us all immobile human torsos. The only danger is the risk that we completely consume each other, leaving nobody left to consume. Maybe this is the ultimate alternative.
I only have one wish before everyone gets the blood lust, that we stop and think about legislation, like that proposed in this state, in its true form - a simple yet effective set of words stripping the rights of people to collectively agree to terms of labor; to dissolve a grouping of people that pose a power risk to a minority of individuals in power. The right to collectively organize, which is indeed a right by the way, was paid for in much more than millions or even billions in promised savings that we value so highly (did somebody say values?). This, I'm arguing, without even touching on the issue of what the wages and benefits of all workers mean for the well-being of everybody or what the workers mean to this state. I wonder if anybody in the private sector, with or without unalienable rights, is considering how this might affect them in the near future? Probably it will allow them to avoid union dues in order that they achieve the american dream! Sometimes a plan just comes together, which feels great from my head to my pants.
So, without further mental manipulation on my part, I'm putting my things together for a special vacation (with friends, at least). See you in Madison.
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