godless capitalism
July 16, 2008From Jason Miller:
Experiencing decreasing levels of the comfort that ensures our loyalty to the criminal enterprise of American Capitalism, we “average” US Americans comprising the poor, working class, and rapidly shrinking middle class still revel in our relatively meaningless social freedoms (we can say “fuck you” to George Bush but can’t even get our “elected representatives” to impeach him for his Nuremberg class war crimes) as the economic manacles and shackles of wage slavery clamp ever tighter about our wrists and ankles.
In pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, we sell our souls for a relative handful of economic crumbs from the table of the US power elite and their express permission to do whatever we please (as long as we stay within “free speech zones,” don’t threaten public officials, commit no acts that impede the sacred cow of commerce, “just say no” to drugs, pay our taxes that fund a massive military apparatus (that has slaughtered millions) and prop up the Zionist squatters in Palestine, look the other way as amoral corporations rape the Earth and torture billions of non-human animals each year, ignore the abject criminality of corporados, Wall Streeters, and those we have “elected,” and act as cogs in the machineries of capitalism to avoid exercising our right to sleep under a bridge).
What utter nonsense. Someone has been listening to a little too much NPR and Air America.
Hmm. And someone ELSE has been listening to a little too many dead white Apostles.
An interesting thought. Since when does death invalidate wisdom? We could use a little more of the wisdom of dead white Apostles and less of our own feeble grasping for things that don’t matter.
If you need that Steve, you go get it. But don’t speak for “we”.
But it’s all about the ‘we’. Folks are so wrapped up in self-love and self-hate (the same thing, I suppose) that they ignore those around them. Those dead white apostles, and the Master they served, had a different view of relationships and our place in the world.
Steve, maybe YOU could use more of the wisdom of the apostles. I don’t want any more of their “wisdom” or any more of yours. I have a community of “we”s. It ain’t you. Get it?
You are welcome to your Master as long as you don’t impose him on me. Which you are now doing. This is MY blog, not OURS.