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Date Posted: 17:59:31 05/14/02 Tue
Author: The Serpent
Subject: You've got to have an opinion.

These are parts One, two, AND... three.

I'm only giving you that because the whole thing will be awfully long, and I wouldn't want to take you away from that precious internet time. After you (hopefully) read all of this, you can go back to your journey on the world wide web, with tons and tons of useful information, and even more porno.

Enjoy...

You've got to have an opinion.

The corporate lords, their loyal opposition, and that vast majority known as "the rest of us" all agree on one thing: America has gone to hell. Even those world class government, flag waving demi-patriots agree that there isn't a system that appears to be "perfect." The whole world seems damn near ruined. We might have been a great country once, but we sure as hell ain't any more. Everyone knows it. Everyone feels it. Everyone asks, "What for?"

Hospitals close cuz there ain't no money. Playgrounds close cuz there ain't no money. Schools can't teach cuz there ain't no money. Roads and bridges fall apart cuz there ain't no money. People sleeping in the street cuz there ain't no money. And every time it's the same old story, "We gotta make due without."

Why?

"Cuz there ain't no money."

"There ain't no money" cuz we've run out of money. Where did that money go? The money ain't gone, it's just been stolen. By the kind of people who already have so much money, they can't think of anything better to do than plot and scheme ways to make even more money. If that means screwing everyone else, so much the better. At least that way someone wins.

If you ask me, that kind of greed is the most dangerous drug on earth. What really does more damage to the earth: drug addiction or wealth addiction? As Noam Chomsky said recently, "Just open up Fortune magazine," who reports, corporate profits dazzling last year, even more splendid this year. Profits will keep booming til the end of our time, right? Read down their list of "the Fortune 500." That's who stole the money.

Wake up. You've got to have an opinion. As the Japanese radical group in the sixties once said, "We are being farmed." We thought we'd be so much further along into the dazzling, limitless future, like those snazzy ads from the old magazines at the dawn of the atomic age, where appliances reigned like magic from heaven as we flew through the air in our bubble-topped cars.

Bigger, better technology is the magic key to more fun, more leisure time, less degrading busy work. Why, with more and more work in the hands of technology, we might not have to work any more at all. There will be plenty for everyone and enough time to buy it.

Instead, the people that stole the money have aimed technology in a different direction, investing that stolen money in the development of ever-nastier ways and ever-nastier tools for treating the rest of us like slaves. Survey after buried survey shows people everywhere are less happy, working harder, getting less, more frightened, and less able to take care of themselves. 2001: was a space odyssey?
2002?

Yeah. It's looking more and more like a one-way ticket to Rwanda.

Wake up. You've got to have an opinion. The brave new world is a cyber plantation where, thanks to so-called "free trade," under the NAFTA and GATT treaties and the upcoming MAI, it is now officially sealed in writing that global corporations can act as their own sovereign nations. Laws don't apply to them any more, and every human being in every country on earth must now compete against each other for who will work for the lowest wage.

According to Jeremy Rifkin, in his book, "The End of Work", three-quarters of all the jobs in America, that's 90 million of 124 million existing jobs, are slowly being made extinct by technology. A lot of people who've reviewed that book say Jeremy Rifkin is exaggerating.

So let's cut that figure in half. Cut it by two-thirds. That's still 30 million more people unemployed because of computers, downsizing and the NAFTA-GATT swindle. Aren't at least some of them going to be a little upset?

The Wall Street robber barons are so caught up in their dirty little game to suck up and control more and more money, they forgot one thing: who's gonna buy all their snazzy new techno-toys when no one has a job any more?

And when meaningful work is gone and there ain't no future, and the soon-to-be-former middle class kids are dropping out and shoe-gazing, while the poor people who know it and feel it are ready to kill, where does Wall Street expect all these people to go?
What are we all supposed to do?

Die?

There's no way this can last. On a lot of smashed horizons, the future is gone, and people are already getting desperate enough to do something stupid.

Hell, governments from other countries, even our own, are already doing something stupid. We vaguely see it on the news.

"9-11" has only happened once cuz we're damn lucky, that's all.

As the veneer of democracy fades away, as the world's downsized until it explodes, as the shanty-towns piled behind the mall become visible, as the savages on the other side of the wall break through, and everybody from to gun-crazy militias, to gangsta rappers, to community activists, to working families just struggling to put food on the table all mad at the same thing, you'd think there'd be a wide-spread united opposition, right?

Instead, America is on the verge of civil war.

No.

It's already here. Unspoken, unacknowledged and mostly, on the surface, bloodless civil war. A class war marketed as a race war of sensationalized sound bites and tabloid images, where people who used to say "nigger" now get away with saying "welfare cheats." Where someone used to say "spic" they can now say "illegal immigrants." And it's become downright trendy to bash black single mothers, at a time when most teenage mothers in America are white.

While over half the mothers in a low crime paradise like Sweden are not married. It's almost as though the message between the lines here is: "we don't want their kind to reproduce."

I first saw "welfare cheat" used as the code word for "nigger" when Ku Klux Klan wizard David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana and got the Republican nomination. Next I saw it move on over to Jesse Helmes' 1990 Senate campaign, where the new "nigger" word for affirmative action was "quotas."
"Preferences."

From there it spread like a virus, finding its way into the venomous fang-dripping mouth of George Bush, followed eagerly by Clinton and Gore, to are friendly Texan Dubya Bush promising to end welfare as we know it, multiplied by a hundred by the "Contract On America." Thugs made respectable by magazine cover story hype of white supremacist-funded research, sold in book form as "The Bell Curve."

And now, Californians egged on by that grumpy little Marine, Pete Wilson, once again come out of the closet and reveal themselves as Mickey Mouses with a white hood on and vote to ban affirmative action and ready themselves to ban bilingual education.

Sometimes when you look at this, it's very revealing to trace back who's been mentally networking with whom. As usual, the real conflict is not what they say it is. It's not the left versus the right, but the top versus the bottom, a class war marketed as a race war. That we are being manipulated and programmed to fight, to keep us all from turning our most potent weapons -- our time, our energy, and our souls -- against the real enemy and taking back what is rightfully ours.

We are living in the new dark ages. Only if we let ourselves. I repeat, there's no way this can last. It never does. That's the best, and most dangerous part. Throughout history, seemingly invincible dictatorial death regimes in Germany, Russia, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua, Chile all had one thing in common. They all failed. They all collapsed. They all destroyed themselves. The question isn't will there be an uprising, but, what form will it take?

Will it be violent?

Will it be peaceful?

Will it be humane enough to work?

Will people fight long and intelligently enough to make it work?

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