While the single digit IQ brigades continue finding new
Russian plots and Trump fascism under every rock on the white house lawn, the
earth worms they seem not to have noticed are making the substance of our
mental heath crisis center more subject to collapsing our great democracy and imperial
master race of self chosen people in and on itself.
Lunkheads of the conservative right make gains in
returning the economy to the anti-social free market fundamentalism that once
made it great back in the time called the great depression, and pinheads of
what passes for a progressive left urge impeachment of the president as cure-all
for everything as soon as enough evidence of his obstruction of justice is compiled
out of gossip, innuendo and science fantasy to make another cherished act of liberal
politics – a law suit – pass for social change. We’ll show him!
A national selfie of our diverse, sincere and confused population
might reveal a stunning photo of all manner of human beings operating at cross
purposes under the control of forces keeping them divided and clutching at paper
napkins as a global tsunami threatens and they scream for quadri-sexual
toilets, therapy for immigrants, less birth control, more abortion and a
greater military. Jeepers kids, what could go wrong with this picture?
Right wing foamers at the mouth who made a career of a
Cold War pitting the Soviet Union of evil communism against all that we held
sacred, like cancer, pets, racism, foreign invasions and mothers day, are now
replaced by running nose progressives seeking an end to Russian evil capitalist
meddling in all that we hold sacred, like homeless people, economic inequality,
pets, and perpetuation of the incredibly stupid idea that humans are members of
different races. Historic political economic forces are reduced to individual
heroes and villains and majority groups that desperately need to work together
are forced to compete for survival to benefit minorities who hold power over
them only by perpetuation of myths, legends and incredible and growing debt
that temporarily assures their survival but for an ever shorter period of time until
nature aligned with its collective human force will foreclose on the tragedy of
the commons. That once referred to a place in England where ordinary people of
the past – peasants - would go to commune with themselves and nature in order
to grow the stuff of their survival, until such time as early capital threw them out and enclosed
those areas for making greater profits from grazing sheep and selling fur
coats. Under the speed of electronic capital those commons have expanded to the
entire planet and its financial royal family owners are squeezing that land and
the humans who live on it as never before, in the process creating greater
profits at an ever faster pace, for the few, but bringing poverty, poisoned earth
and potential race disaster closer by the market report, for the many.
Solution? At the central headquarters of American
capital, it means building a case against the occupant at the white house, said
case starting as he was elected and ongoing since, moving from alleged spying,
alleged invention of racism, homophobia, islamophobia, sexist hate crimes and
more, and doing so in easy to understand language instead of the double speak
known and loved by all employees in capital’s loyal servant professional class.
The current president gives vent to whatever comes from
the deep black hole between his ears and defies usual treacherous speech that
masks overt atrocities in flowery hypocrite political poetics by boldly and
proudly claiming such horror as just what we need to be great, again. No wonder
the ruling powers want the oaf tossed out, given that he clearly states the
program they have used to gain wealth while using their hired political media
to describe it as everything but its reality. But it is already too late to get
away with continued blaming the atrocity of our political economics on one or
another satanized individual. The system has spoken loudly if not screamed in
making a small group of humans richer than any in history while turning greater
populations into paupers and reducing hundreds of millions more to only
temporarily avoiding poverty by charging their rent, food, clothing, shelter
and what passes for entertainment to a vast electronic network of symbolic debt
that threatens to consume far more than any bank bailout can materially deal with,
at least under the private profit before public good system which is so out of
control if it were an individual it would be physically, morally, spiritually
and therapeutically bankrupt and placed in a padded cell .
No less than what passes for authority at the IMF
warned only a short time ago that the world’s public and
private sectors were deeper in debt than at the height of the financial crisis
a decade ago, owing more than 164 trillion dollars. Twelve zeroes after the
164, kids. Global debt is now more than twice the size of the value of goods
and services produced every year and at 225 per cent of global gross domestic product.
There was an urgent need to reduce the burden of debt in both the private and
public sectors to improve the resilience of the global economy.
Sick humor aside, the resilience has never
stopped for the minority collecting interest on that massive debt, along with
its well paid servants still raking in enough to make weekly, monthly or yearly
payments to the biggest loan shark-shylock-moneylender-blood sucking vipers in
history. If the new testament mob of Jesus and his radical rabbis were
operative now, they would not just chase the bloodsuckers from the temple as
they supposedly did millennia past, but possibly beat them to a pulp and sell
their remains as pet food.
Religion and mythology aside, we close with the words of
a modern scholar from France which make far more sense to the growing numbers
wondering at just what is going on to make things seem so precarious and scary:
“What is at stake is not the future of capitalism, but
that of civilization itself.”
Maurice Chesnais
