Class conflict cannot exist in a society without classes,
which is what we’re told we have as citizens of the world’s greatest democracy,
its most exceptional nation, and other political-religious beliefs to accompany
the big economic one about our magnificent free market where nothing is free.
We used to have a middle class and there is an upper middle
class living in luxury towers and dining at fine restaurants, and we certainly
have poor and rich people, but that doesn’t make us a class society. Does it?
Many foreigners think Americans have no class at all but they may be giving the
word another meaning. When it comes to economic stratification and wealth
inequality, true believers in an alleged democracy that makes us all equal will
swear that despite differences in personal bankrolls, by george we are the same
in having free choice.
Especially in that fantastic free market where rich or poor,
the same products are available to all of us if we just choose them.
Which is why poor people can live in gated communities,
penthouses, large estates and lavish mansions, and rich folks can live in
slums, housing projects, under freeways and on the street. It’s completely up
to them and the educated choices they make at that free market where nothing is
free. That’s why some of us eat gourmet as opposed to junk food, ride limos as
opposed to bikes, and why some of us visit low-end emergency rooms for common
illness while others visit high-end specialists for uncommon ills. Free choice,
right?
If you believe any of that it’s amazing you’ve been able to
read this far since you either dropped out of elementary school in fourth
grade, or you’re employed by the ruling rich as a professional member of their body,
mind and soul servant class. Even if you are a member of both those groups,
joining with your fellow citizens to create real democracy would bring about a
much better world than the one we live in, but if you really believe continued
worship of minority wealth is what’s best for us all, you are anti-democratic
and possibly fascist no matter how perversely patriotic you may think yourself
for standing for the national anthem after lying about your taxes, cheating at
your business, or discriminating against other alleged minorities as alienated
as you are.
Obedience to symbols can be a sincere and heartfelt behavior
but when it’s accompanied by hateful bigotry that would embarrass Nazis it’s a
meal to make jackals and hyenas vomit. And hungry people cannot eat symbols of
food, nor can homeless people reside in symbolic housing. But symbol worship is
another religious observance forced upon good people in hopes that they won’t
notice the material ugliness those symbols too often cover for.
The growing pro-democracy movement is learning that the way ruling
class minority control of everything is maintained is by reducing the majority
to identity group minorities and having them battle over getting a part of the professional
class semi-luxury available by obeying the rules of the market religion and
thus having some special members of their groups prayers answered by being
allowed entry into that privileged group of servants. Unfortunately, it still
works for many who not only stand for the anthem but symbolically bend over for
their rulers at the same time.
While some of us are terrorized by racism, Trump, staggering
debt, Trump, a warfare state, Putin, unemployment, Trump, climate change, Assad,
poverty, Trump and a host of other real and imagined menaces, especially the one
with which Consciousness Control is obsessing much of the nation, Donald Trump,
a host of all too real problems are depicted as only those of certain groups,
certainly not all of us. Alleged minorities of beings are Balkanized into
believing ourselves separate ethnic-racial-religious-cultural-gender identities
which somehow categorize us as different in human substance. Once we are beaten
into mental submission that accepts our minority status, the rest is easy for
our rulers.
While recent stories of a seemingly disgusting trend towards
rape of unconscious women are shocking, more of us will die in automobile
crashes and the fatalities will not be sexually segregated or only befall minority
subsets of the nation. Yet we are not terrified by media harping on that story about
a menace that kills more than thirty thousand americans every year, but rather
a disgusting crime which, thankfully, the overwhelming majority of women will
never suffer. Why are some menaces hyped to the point of giving us nightmares
even if the odds of our enduring them are tiny, while other, real dangers are
hardly spoken of at all? Could the fact that automobiles, fossil fuels, health insurance,
and related businesses are multi billion dollar profit makers have something to
do with it? Duh?
All of us are endangered by the intellectual rape of an
unconscious public kept “drugged with religion and sex and tv” according to John
Lennon in song back in the sixties. What might John be singing now, with 24-hour
cable news mind assaults convincing us that perpetual war is normal, online
anti-social media lynch squads aroused over almost anything, narrower minded
and louder than ever pundit pinheads, richer and more powerful than ever big Pharma
joining the orgy of weapons, drugs, gossip, scandal and the further reduction
of passive citizens in an idealized democracy into a fanatic mob of zombie consumers
at a realized dystopian mall?
Many of us are so mentally abused by the lies of ruling
power that we believe only the most far fetched tales of plots seemingly
conducted by forces of evil invisible to all but the anointed who can spot
false flags a mile away but are blind to political economics staring them in
the face. Reduced to an endless mob of consumers buying bullets, cosmetics,
pizza, fashion, beer or pet food, and a parade of proles carrying plastic bags
filled with merchandise, garbage or dog poop, most of us are innocently swept
up in whatever trend of the moment comes via our networks of believability. And
all those networks are directly or indirectly owned by the same financial
powers which have nothing to do with fantastic schemes or the illuminati but
everything to do with what is quite visible, material and threatens the world
we all live in whether compelled to wave fabric painted red white and blue or coerced
to carry truly false banners denoting a sub-human status forced upon us as
alleged minorities.
The real and most threatening minority is that of the
relative handful of billionaires – just over 400 in America - whose domination
of the global economy is growing more critical and dangerous as unemployment,
poverty and mass murder is suffered by more people while prosperity is enjoyed
by a much smaller upper-middle class of servants clinging to the belief that
it’s status not only reflects a general condition, but is entirely justified by
the rules and regulations of the religious economy; the alleged free market
under the control and dominance of a tiny minority growing obscenely richer by
the day as a global majority carries the massive public loss caused by their
private profits. How can they get away with this?
The tactic of dividing and conquering the opposition is
among the oldest known to minority power, but in the age of instant electronic
communication, it has become a tool for wielding more power than ever in the
past. Royalty, feudal lords, slave owners and other deities of bygone eras
would have been orgasmic if they could have had such instantaneous control over
what reached the minds of their vassals, peasants, slaves and armies. While the
digital age has made possible more direct communication among the people than was
ever imaginable before, it has also placed incredible power of consciousness
control and mind management in the hands of ruling classes never before as rich,
dominant or dangerous.
Great masses of people under the heel of minority rule in
what were called empires of the past were no more than national neighborhoods. Now,
private capital’s continued and faster rape of the earth and its people in
pursuit of ever greater profit for some at ever greater loss for most threatens
the planet itself, and not just one or another fiefdom, kingdom or community. While
the degradation of poorer and less developed nations is more criminal than
ever, what is called the developed world suffers not only a spiritual and moral
epidemic of social degeneracy but a vast material breakdown as well. All the
more reason for ruling power to keep people relatively isolated on the
equivalent of mental plantations, kept from any notion of the potential for
global democracy and chained to the idea of national, cultural and most
ignorant of all, racial difference making it necessary to band together in only
the smallest possible groups which guarantee the ruling minority its continued
power and make the collective danger much worse.
This continued rule division plays out in the lesser evil
politics employed by regimes of capital in supposed democracies like America
that allows their subjects to choose between a demublican representative of
Goldman Sachs and the Israeli Lobby or a republicrat representative of the Koch
Brothers and the Gun Lobby, with full assurance that whether the selected
lesser evil needs a proctologist to conduct a brain scan or a pus removal from
veins to allow a blood test, Goldman Sachs, the Israel lobby, the Koch Brothers
and the Gun Lobby will maintain their control. They will serve and maintain a
system by appealing to fictional minorities that insure the tiniest, richest
and only real minority still dominates.
That system needs to be radically transformed by a unified,
organized majority that acts for the common identity of humanity, which is all
the more reason ruling regimes need to keep it divided. More of us seem to be
moving in the direction of such organization and that is making capital’s
minority rulers, like rats on a sinking ship, more desperately dangerous than
ever. Which means the people need to find our identity as a human race sooner
than ever or it will be stripped from all of us, no matter what hyphens,
accents, beliefs, skin tones or other divisions we have been conditioned to
accept as making us somehow un-human, less-human, more-human, super-human or
sub-human.
Nature’s hurricanes, tsunamis, droughts and other events,
and societies wars, pollution and poverty are all tending to get worse and do
not differentiate among humans when they become all encompassing. The way to
avoid the fire next time is to stop the fire hazard now. That hazard is
anti-democratic, minority-controlled capitalism and the only way to stop it is
with democracy. That means the only identity group that is real, humanity,
needs to un-divide, unite, and conquer. Period.