Capitalism is Democratic the Way Rape is Romance
“Whenever I see he/him or she/her
I think fuck/you. You must be living an awfully precious life if, amid
the pervasive despair of an economy in free fall, your uppermost concern is
clinging to your pronouns."
Norman Finkelstein
The present mental state of
the American public is almost as bad as the ruling military idiocy which is
pushing us closer to a nuclear confrontation as we conduct a proxy war against Russia
using Ukrainian lives while we supply the weapons. In the face of this and a
recent United Nations report calling for more urgency than ever in dealing with
the environmental breakdown of nature under assault by capitalist market
madness, Americans are under an attack on sanity more deadly than ever for not
dealing with material circumstances but rather a set of alleged problems which
make fairy tales sound like intellectually sound reports on material reality.
Herds of otherwise thoughtful
people are moved to become an intellectual lynch mob as consciousness control
and mind management organizes a frenzy of demands to televise the Trump court
fiascos, suppress speech found painful by privileged folks totally protected
from physical pain, and other aspects of personality and character disorders
among a socially tortured people suffering political and economic deprivation
under the rule of morally depraved leadership whose power comes from amassing
incredible wealth and having its political servant class accept and teach that as democracy. Suppression of
thought and rape of language labels a market process as electoral choice and a
political system threatening more people with less information than ever before
is dubbed “our democracy”.
You know, the one in which Julian
Assange is driven closer to death by hordes of former reporters who have become
storm troopers in the army of propaganda purveyors who were once at least an
occasional source of fairly unbiased news reporting. As banking and finance
show signs of near collapse and most of the world moves further from dependence
on the American dollar that is fast becoming as sound as digital or counterfeit
currency, and the murderous war budget continues to grow in killing Russians by
sacrificing Ukrainians lives along with American dollars, an assortment of
allegedly life or death struggles over races other than human, genders other
than male and female, and other themes and variations of fantasy fiction which act
as programmed mental blockades for the
public, as we sink closer to mental and physical doom that threatens far more
than only our nation.
The breaking down of a global
system of imperialism shows itself in a variety of ways that remain invisible,
unheard, unseen and never analyzed in the main stream of consciousness control
and mind management that fading ruling powers are using in more desperate
fashion than any previous assault on American mental health. The daily
poisoning of national capacity to think has become a raging epidemic to make
the corona virus seem almost simple by comparison, though it came from the same
source: capital private profit marketing under the guise of freedom and
democracy that guarantees Americans the right to buy a weapon in order to
protect themselves from the most frightening creatures in the universe: other Americans.
We are warned against fictional problems with
Chinese “spy” balloons and Chinese “spy” police while murdering one another,
frequently in groups ranging from children and their teachers to shoppers at a
mall or worshippers at a proposed religious haven and spending hundreds of
billions to menace and murder all over the world as a form of protection for what
people who make religious fanatics seem thoughtful call “our” democracy”.
This cherished fantasy takes
place in a population in which 8% are millionaires; multi-millionaires and
billionaires while the overwhelming 92% majority are manipulated when not
physically beaten into accepting such idiocy as “equality”.
The billions keep pouring
into the proxy war in the Ukraine which murders Russians who are alleged to
have invaded when the truth is their borders have been menaced by the U.S. and
its Nato lap dogs since the end of the soviet union and communist rule which
supposedly brought the world closer to peace. But not according to the ruling
powers of minority wealth which expanded its war profiteering and actually further
menaced the future with nuclear war as the aggressive minority which rules
America asserted its deadly control more fully by making a sick joke of words
like democracy, freedom and equality, while destroying every step in the
direction nations took trying to achieve such things, most especially our own.
A population previously
frightened by profitable pro or anti trans fat diets has become enamored of
more profitable trans gender relations, further alienating many while pleasing
others troubled by what may have once involved seeking counsel or joining a
church or drinking alcohol or taking drugs or all four and more. We are already
embroiled in a supposed democratic action which is to begin more than a year
into the future when the two parties of capitalism will wage multi billion
dollar marketing wars called a presidential election. At the present moment
there is no alternative voice beyond the Green party, which is at a severe disadvantage
in a supposed capitalist democracy. It does not have billions of dollars
stashed with which to buy marketing time to see its program which calls for
system change and not simply a cosmetic personnel change to reward one or
another nice guy-girl-man-woman-shim from an identity group other
than-different from others in the creation of ever more alienation and division
among the people to strengthen our ruling minority and its front line servant
demublicans and republicrats.
Our savage divisions under
false race idiocy in denial of the fact that we are all members of the one and
only human race have been joined by seemingly lesser but just as dangerous
divisions alleging more than the two sexes involved in human evolution. A surge
of separate but unequal identity groups has occurred as ruling power works
harder than ever to divide humanity and thus make majority action democracy
impossible. Unless disabled Polish American gay Jews of color are acknowledged
progress is impossible and poor people can just drop dead on the streets until
alleged bi-racial trans-sexual-tri-species-quad brained humans take their place
alongside Batman, Captain Marvel, fairy godmothers, Founding Fathers and
enchanted animals.
Considering the fact that the
overwhelming 92% majority of us are carrying more than 31 trillion dollars in
public debt, more than 16 billion in personal debt and have absolutely no
chance under capitalist private profit political economics of seeing anything
but further growth in that debt, we should move to at least share the pronoun “asshole”
as at least one way of establishing our common membership in a class of humans
reduced to mental slavery under the assault on our ability to think. But there
is hope, and not only from the rapid awakening in the rest of the world that
America is not some biblical ruler of the universe but from the awareness
growing here despite all thought suppression that if we don’t do something
about it humanity and most especially America will suffer even more greatly.
Still, minority control of
our minds and worse our nuclear weapons and their desire and commitment to
destroying Russia and China make it all the more important that struggles for
one or another minority or one or another aspect of environmental destruction that
do not confront capitalist private profit-public loss political economics as
the root cause of our problems will make them far more difficult if not
impossible to solve.
Making a profit by creating
electric cars instead of gasoline-powered vehicles will benefit minority
capital and some of its servants but we need to reduce the total environmentally
destructive control of life that the private automobile has become. Not only
does it pollute but private profit auto transit creates public loss by killing
tens of thousands of us every year, while crippling even more along with
fouling air and poisoning land. We need public transit that makes it possible
for any of us to get anywhere in time for whatever we have to do and for it to
be safe enough to guarantee an end to the sheer butchery of the overwhelmingly
wasteful and murderous single occupant private auto transit system. And that
will only be possible when we have democratic control of the economy through
political democracy which is absolutely impossible under minority dominated
private profit- public loss capitalism.
Whether we achieve that
peacefully or not will depend on shattering the steel curtain covering material
reality with a media strengthened view of reality that is a nightmare trending
towards a disaster. We need to wake up from an induced slumber so that all of
us, whether pigeonholed by our rulers as left or right, can come together,
transform reality before it destroys us, and salvage our world and our race as
unified “influencers” of a democratic revolution. What’s been called a “woke”
state of mind has become a joke but we do need to “wake” from the idiotic
trance social mind control has put us under. And anyway, “woke” is past tense.
We need to “wake” to reality in the present or there may not be a past tense
available to us, here or elsewhere.