Termyn8or
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Today, what masquerades as a celebrartion of the US' independence is more of a wake. I almost made a joke about them celebrating the fourth of July in England as the day they got the fuck rid of us, but that would be inappropriate. Of course that's never stopped me before. The fact is they did not get rid of us.
The British Empire could not have been conquered by the totally ineffective soldiers they sent here to quell the rebellion in the colonies, it would be foolish to believe so. This underfunded ragtag bunch of rebellious upstarts led by the likes of a splinter group of semi-dissident elites kicked their asses when the sun never set on the Empire ? Gimme a break. They knew it would be too fucking hard to govern. The taxes against which the colonists rebelled is unlikely to have covered the costs of governing. I laugh just as hard at people who put forth the notion that the Nazis would have eventually tried to take the US. Even in that day, with the relatively modern war machines and transportation methods it would still be impractical, and more importantly, not profitable.
If there's one thing to celebrate it is the institutionalized complacency that comes from hardly ever being attacked. We went from the 1800s to 1941 and then to 2001 unscathed. Either we're bad motherfuckers or nobody wants us. Possibly both. Our major export is death, and if that's how it is, well you voted for it. Not that you have had much choice since the 1800s but something should have been done a long time ago. You played with your kids instead of teaching, you put your nose to the grindstone for a color TV and new car. You painted you white picket fences. And then when it started going downhill you put more locks on your door.
People pratlle on about future generations cursing us for saddling them with all this debt, well I am 52 and I am cursing my ancestors for saddling us with all this debt. The new deal should never have happened. It was just about 100 years ago this year that everything changed. Yup, 1913. Don't get me wrong, it's never been a free country, nor can any such thing ever exist, but 1913 was when the government gave the money away. With the Alien and Sedition act in place one like Ron Paul would have most likely been arrested. The new deal was all part of the plan as was the strife which was its impetus.
Now everyone has to have someone convenient to blame. A political party, or more like apolitical party. Lately on a forum there have been a couple of posts about the democratic party and their suppport for Black slavery. I forgot to hand them some ammo actually, Roger B. Taney was a democrat. If the name is too obscure for you look up the Dred Scott decision which stated that an escaped slave is not free just because he made it to a free state. Guess how Taney got his job on the supreme court. I'll give you a hint, at least four secretaries of the treasury rrefused to do what he did on the orders of the President, who was also a traitor. These actions paved the way for the financial meltdown we are experiencing.
That's right, ARE EXPERIENCING. It is almost as if we are in the eye of a storm right now. Few have gotten rich and many have gotten poor. The banks are making moves to secure for themselves, alot of property through foreclosures. Even though bailed out by your tax money they are going to fuck you again. There is no end in sight until they have everything and I know why. Though inflation and deflation, we WILL wake up homeless. Who said that ?
This country is run by sick people, they have one of the strongest addictions in the world and there is no treatment, no cure, and not even a diagnosis. Of course I don't mean the politicians, they are as important as a TV news anchorman. Just someone pretty to look at, not much more. they do as they are told. Why ?
Because if I am the boss of "Bank Of America" I can walk into Obama's office and demand whatever the fuck I want. If I don't get what I want I can just say, OK, the bank is closed. Not even closed, just change policy. If I run Haliburton/KBR I can say "you kmow those MREs, we are going to make them with nutriloaf". Boy don't go to prison these days, look up nutriloaf and you'll know exactly what I mean. I mean you would probably prefer bread and water.
At "the other place" there was also an argument about this country becoming communist. One poster argued the definition of communism, which includes the government owning or controlling most of the means of production. Well here we have a situation is which the owners of the means of production have the ULTIMATE influence on the government. Six of one, half dozen of the other. There is no practical difference, in fact the plutocracy we have is probably a bit worse than commiunism. At least in communism people can have a revolt, if we kill all politicians it would be like killing a bunch of Walter Cronkites. Don't get me wrong, Cronkite was a thinking Man unlike most of his contemporaries, but he was still powerless. Even the massive power of the media is not allowed to be usurped by one of their representatives. When posed with the possibility that JFK was assassinated by Israel for threatening to cut off all aids if they did not abandon their nuclear program he responded "There is nobody else on this planet that could have kept a lid on something like that". (close but not exact quote) It's not like he was a bubbleheaded bleachblonde, but that didn't give him any sort of means to do anyting about anything, whether he wanted to or not. If he was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, he would never say it on the air.
I am a born and raised troubleshooter. I sift the facts to find the underlying cause of a problem and seek a real solution whenever possible. For this, I come up short. I mean I am from a fucking family that never calls a repairman, we figure shit out, but these problems were millenia in the making. I have come to the conclusion that one lifetime is too short to fix the ills of mankind. And that's what they are.
I see only one solution to these problems. Death. Either mine or a bunch of other people. I have spent plenty a sober moment thinking very clearly about these problems and possible solutions to even the tiniest of them, and they are so fucking entrenched that I fall flat. You don't understand, solving problems was my claim to fame, I shit you not. I'm tired of thinking.
So now I am going to celebrate the fourth of July. I am going to do some laundry.
Be well as you can. To be happy, make sure you die on schedule, I know I am way late. Seriously, my life has been in great danger a few times. I do not necessarily appreciate making it through those times anymore.
And now I realize that is the basis of true freedom, I just don't give fuck.
T
< Message edited by Termyn8or -- 7/4/2013 2:44:57 PM >
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RE: It's the 4th...let 'celebrate ?' - 
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