A fantastic article on Bella Ciao website.
The first step was to get everybody dancing to their tune, get them obsessed with the idea that it’s all about getting money. That was easy to do with the aid of Hollywood and TV sets. They presented the public with made up images of people living “the good life” and being all cool because they’ve got all the latest stuff. Soon everybody wanted the good life and to have the latest stuff, and the race was on.
People came off their farms and started taking every conceivable kind of job, giving up their lives and families and time and doing nothing but working. Working their lives away. Working to try to get their hands on ever more money because they now believed, after decades of consistent government/media brainwashing via the boob-tube in everybody’s living rooms, that nothing mattered more than getting rich. People wanted all the stuff that money can buy.
Soon the things in life that have real value, that money can’t touch with a ten foot pole like health, and love and family and friends, quality of life, free time, common sense, solidarity, community, education, self-empowerment, actual democracy and being self ruling, spirit and soul and the whole nine yards, all of that was devalued to zero. We went morally bankrupt a long time ago. But now being morally bankrupt is the in thing. It seems to work best for the criminal classes, the ones at the top and the ones at the bottom, there’s no real difference except the ones at the top are infinitely more dangerous and will never be punished for the crimes they perpetrate.
So now they had the whole country working, sweating away, laboring at every kind of job there is and that’s what they wanted. Because regardless of what they tell us in school, and regardless of what the financial whiz bangs drone on about, the bottom line is this: the only way to create wealth is through human labor. Period. End of story. No labor, no wealth. Forget about it.
Next they made the laws that say that you and I can’t just start some kind of business for ourselves and opt out of their little game, like gambling or manufacturing in our own homes, or banking and printing fake money for ourselves to use and trade. That would be competition for them and they won’t stand for it. So it’s only legal for them to do anything that lets people get rich and for everyone else it’s not legal.
The whole system is devised to cheat the people out of everything, starting with their labor, the only way that wealth can be created. The trick was only to get people to get up and do that labor, and to not pay them with actual money, not with actual gold or silver because those hold their value and people would be able to put that real wealth aside, save it up or even get together to start something of their own and you can’t have that. That would give the working class actual power and then they could refuse to comply with your way of doing things. They would be able to say things like, “Take this job and shove it, jerk! I don’t need your money, I have plenty of my own, so bite me. I don’t have to put up with this”.
Our whole system is a ghost, it doesn’t exist, it’s like the Emperor’s new clothes. If people ever stood still long enough to soak that in, they’d be righteously pissed off and this would change and things might be able to be fixed and we could get rid of the criminals feeding off of us. But, people are small minded and greedy and all they care about is getting more worthless money because they think it makes them cool or something and they don’t care who they screw to get some of it. Or they are so desperate and poor that they have no choice but to keep spinning inside their hamster wheels to put some lousy genetically tampered with food on the table to stay alive a little while longer, and keep paying those high interest rates and inflated prices and getting sicker and more downtrodden all the while. And we can’t explain this to the public because all they care about is shopping and they don’t believe anything unless they hear it on the news, which is all owned by the same people doing all this stuff to us and they’ll never admit to any of it. So there you go.
See the movie “Maxed Out” on the front page at pbsBlog.com for a closer look at the scam being perpetrated on the good people of this country. Being informed is being prepared and you won’t be prone to falling for their lies and schemes anymore. The quality of your life is up to you. You get to protect yourself from being destroyed by voracious capitalist bastards, it’s your basic human right to protect your interests and yourself, and don’t ever let anyone tell you any different. That is the biggest lie of all and the saddest thing is how many Americans have come to believe it. It’s an outrage. Stand up and refuse to cooperate. That’s where change begins. They get stopped when we stop them by not cooperating. How can that be wrong? It can’t be.
