Greetings good citizen, today's headline refers to that nagging feeling something's missing but you can't quite put your finger on it.
Did you forget to do something or did you miss the gist of the latest news item while you hurried to finish something else? [damn that multi-tasking, too many things at once and none of them well!]
Sadly, the one that nags at you the most is, 'What's the point? Why am I doing this and who does that A-hole think he is?'
The list only grows from there but the existential 'why' is always nagging at you. Why does it have to be like this?
The list for our, er, 'well-being' [keep us alive although not necessarily 'thriving'] is astoundingly short and can be, er, satisfied by a collection of simple stop gap measures.
That said, 'Our Betters' (those who profit from our labor) have plugged the paths of least resistance, denying us the ability to merely 'get by'. It all started when Farming made the hunter superfluous.
Yes good citizen, we have a 'surplus population' problem dating all the way back to the very beginnings of civilization!
Most hunters turned their hand to farming but not all of them could get the hang of it. Tending vegetables just isn't the same as tracking game through the wilderness. While there were plenty of pests that needed killing this was somehow not as satisfying because bug guts don't gush like the blood of fresh killed game.
Good at it or not, domestication became 'the way of the future' and it was adapt or die time (again.)
Ironically, many of our more primitive ancestors remember what happened to those who chose not to 'weaponize'...the first step away from the tree, where we learned that gathering (and the hungry times reliance on nature's bounty caused was overcome by learning how to kill.) wasn't the only way to survive.
Cultivation and animal husbandry solved the need to wander where the game went and freed up a ton of valuable time.
[This mini history lesson is going somewhere, I promise!]
Well, the places where crops grew well and animals thrived were few and far between, the best spots became towns and then cities, which sort of screwed up the farming thing but our ancestors weren't too bright either!
You can see where this is headed. War and the resultant birth of the 'I'll keep you safe' clan, (more commonly known today as 'kings'.)
Ironically we're still fighting the adaption from hunter gatherer to farmer today [largely because a mere century ago we were still a world of farmers.]
But along came the Industrial Revolution and now the family farm was 'redundant'. That's okay, Industry needed your useless backside in front of a machine 12 hours a day, six days a week! And so it went.
But that was just the beginning, mechanization gave way to automation and now workers were 'redundant' and had nowhere to go!
Believe me when I tell you NOBODY [wearing a capitalist hat] gave a nano-second of thought to what this meant for the future of our species.
[Promised pay-off] So, you are still being 'pitched' [read sold, like a vacation deal] the idea that it's up to YOU to make yourself useful in a world that no longer 'needs' you.
Understand, the capitalist thinks the world NEVER needed you and if you missed your chance to 'make something' of yourself, well, that's YOUR bad!
This is the rigid middle finger those who were 'fortunately born' commonly extend when challenged. 'Yeah, my parents LOVED ME, too bad about yours!
So why are you, and let's face facts, beating your head against a brick wall day after day, doing stuff that NOBODY gives a crap about, [Funny money has created a ton of 'busy work'.] For a paycheck that sees you slipping further into debt with each passing day?
It's getting harder to build a future in a world where the majority of us are considered [and despised for being] 'surplus'.
You're either selling 'the dream' or you're distracting from it, far too few are actually living it...and that's just the way the few like it.
So why can't you go live in the woods and hunt like our ancient ancestors did? You already know the answer, those people have their own 'reality' TV shows [so you know the ones who don't have TV shows ARE STARVING TO DEATH!]
Speaking of which, how do those clowns on the crab boats make any money pulling up traps from the ocean floor with only two crabs in them? Crabmeat doesn't retail for a million dollars a pound...good thing they have a TV show or the boat would be out of business!
Now, if your grand-pappy left YOU a cattle ranch in Alaska, you could 'homestead' like that famous family on TV does...but remember, their bed was made for them. They aren't starting off 'cold' like you would be if you had to do it from scratch. Also left to our imagination is whether or not the Grandfather already had a hatfull of cash when he started.
Just because the 'homestead' was free doesn't mean old Atz was broke when he came halfway around the world to Alaska.
Having 'back-up' can make a big difference.
Which is really weird when we take into account that a vast majority of us would be unemployed if money weren't 'funny'. If you don't have access to the 'wishing well' you can still get yourself a hatful of cash by standing close enough to it when somebody who does have access likes your smile!
The essential key to capitalist success, right here, for free! Only in America!
It's the 'buddy system' in action and, as we have seen repeatedly, it doesn't even have to be a particularly good idea!
People who can access the well don't care if you fail, the money isn't 'gone' as far as they're concerned, they can go back to the well and haul themselves up more!
And THAT my friends, is why YOU'RE OUT of TOUCH!
Because YOU don't believe that this is 'reality'. Why should 'the few' have it so easy while you have to struggle (and fail) trying to keep your head above water?
Ready for Spirit in the Sky? Because that's what they'll tell you, it's all God's fault!
Do I look like the, er, [family blog here, have to watch it] jerk for pointing out YOU stepped in dog poop?
Well, my shoes are just as poopy. Because I know mine are fouled doesn't make me the bad guy...or the one who is failing yet another 'reality check' here good citizen!
It isn't 'true' because I say so, 'make something of yourself' is a much bigger lie than the fact that all money is funny!
Worse is the one about 'hard work' equaling success. Yes, it is true that if we returned to our origins and did 'everything' for ourselves we'd toil from sun-up til sundown with very limited success considering the over population epidemic.
What you need to understand is the 'benefits' of our cooperative lifestyle are sequestered by the few at the top of our civilization.
And yes, this DOES beg the nagging question we started with, is there something going on that we don't know about?
Do the 'fortunate few' have a secret they aren't sharing with the rest of us?
We won't find that out until we knock them off their throne, will we?
Again, I apologize for this rather steep departure from 'the reservation' [the world you accept as 'real'] I know your mind can only handle so much and this borders on overload but if you take some time to digest it, it will become clearer in your head.
Once again I thank you for letting me inside your head,
ever grateful,
Gegner
Did you forget to do something or did you miss the gist of the latest news item while you hurried to finish something else? [damn that multi-tasking, too many things at once and none of them well!]
Sadly, the one that nags at you the most is, 'What's the point? Why am I doing this and who does that A-hole think he is?'
The list only grows from there but the existential 'why' is always nagging at you. Why does it have to be like this?
The list for our, er, 'well-being' [keep us alive although not necessarily 'thriving'] is astoundingly short and can be, er, satisfied by a collection of simple stop gap measures.
That said, 'Our Betters' (those who profit from our labor) have plugged the paths of least resistance, denying us the ability to merely 'get by'. It all started when Farming made the hunter superfluous.
Yes good citizen, we have a 'surplus population' problem dating all the way back to the very beginnings of civilization!
Most hunters turned their hand to farming but not all of them could get the hang of it. Tending vegetables just isn't the same as tracking game through the wilderness. While there were plenty of pests that needed killing this was somehow not as satisfying because bug guts don't gush like the blood of fresh killed game.
Good at it or not, domestication became 'the way of the future' and it was adapt or die time (again.)
Ironically, many of our more primitive ancestors remember what happened to those who chose not to 'weaponize'...the first step away from the tree, where we learned that gathering (and the hungry times reliance on nature's bounty caused was overcome by learning how to kill.) wasn't the only way to survive.
Cultivation and animal husbandry solved the need to wander where the game went and freed up a ton of valuable time.
[This mini history lesson is going somewhere, I promise!]
Well, the places where crops grew well and animals thrived were few and far between, the best spots became towns and then cities, which sort of screwed up the farming thing but our ancestors weren't too bright either!
You can see where this is headed. War and the resultant birth of the 'I'll keep you safe' clan, (more commonly known today as 'kings'.)
Ironically we're still fighting the adaption from hunter gatherer to farmer today [largely because a mere century ago we were still a world of farmers.]
But along came the Industrial Revolution and now the family farm was 'redundant'. That's okay, Industry needed your useless backside in front of a machine 12 hours a day, six days a week! And so it went.
But that was just the beginning, mechanization gave way to automation and now workers were 'redundant' and had nowhere to go!
Believe me when I tell you NOBODY [wearing a capitalist hat] gave a nano-second of thought to what this meant for the future of our species.
[Promised pay-off] So, you are still being 'pitched' [read sold, like a vacation deal] the idea that it's up to YOU to make yourself useful in a world that no longer 'needs' you.
Understand, the capitalist thinks the world NEVER needed you and if you missed your chance to 'make something' of yourself, well, that's YOUR bad!
This is the rigid middle finger those who were 'fortunately born' commonly extend when challenged. 'Yeah, my parents LOVED ME, too bad about yours!
So why are you, and let's face facts, beating your head against a brick wall day after day, doing stuff that NOBODY gives a crap about, [Funny money has created a ton of 'busy work'.] For a paycheck that sees you slipping further into debt with each passing day?
It's getting harder to build a future in a world where the majority of us are considered [and despised for being] 'surplus'.
You're either selling 'the dream' or you're distracting from it, far too few are actually living it...and that's just the way the few like it.
So why can't you go live in the woods and hunt like our ancient ancestors did? You already know the answer, those people have their own 'reality' TV shows [so you know the ones who don't have TV shows ARE STARVING TO DEATH!]
Speaking of which, how do those clowns on the crab boats make any money pulling up traps from the ocean floor with only two crabs in them? Crabmeat doesn't retail for a million dollars a pound...good thing they have a TV show or the boat would be out of business!
Now, if your grand-pappy left YOU a cattle ranch in Alaska, you could 'homestead' like that famous family on TV does...but remember, their bed was made for them. They aren't starting off 'cold' like you would be if you had to do it from scratch. Also left to our imagination is whether or not the Grandfather already had a hatfull of cash when he started.
Just because the 'homestead' was free doesn't mean old Atz was broke when he came halfway around the world to Alaska.
Having 'back-up' can make a big difference.
Which is really weird when we take into account that a vast majority of us would be unemployed if money weren't 'funny'. If you don't have access to the 'wishing well' you can still get yourself a hatful of cash by standing close enough to it when somebody who does have access likes your smile!
The essential key to capitalist success, right here, for free! Only in America!
It's the 'buddy system' in action and, as we have seen repeatedly, it doesn't even have to be a particularly good idea!
People who can access the well don't care if you fail, the money isn't 'gone' as far as they're concerned, they can go back to the well and haul themselves up more!
And THAT my friends, is why YOU'RE OUT of TOUCH!
Because YOU don't believe that this is 'reality'. Why should 'the few' have it so easy while you have to struggle (and fail) trying to keep your head above water?
Ready for Spirit in the Sky? Because that's what they'll tell you, it's all God's fault!
Do I look like the, er, [family blog here, have to watch it] jerk for pointing out YOU stepped in dog poop?
Well, my shoes are just as poopy. Because I know mine are fouled doesn't make me the bad guy...or the one who is failing yet another 'reality check' here good citizen!
It isn't 'true' because I say so, 'make something of yourself' is a much bigger lie than the fact that all money is funny!
Worse is the one about 'hard work' equaling success. Yes, it is true that if we returned to our origins and did 'everything' for ourselves we'd toil from sun-up til sundown with very limited success considering the over population epidemic.
What you need to understand is the 'benefits' of our cooperative lifestyle are sequestered by the few at the top of our civilization.
And yes, this DOES beg the nagging question we started with, is there something going on that we don't know about?
Do the 'fortunate few' have a secret they aren't sharing with the rest of us?
We won't find that out until we knock them off their throne, will we?
Again, I apologize for this rather steep departure from 'the reservation' [the world you accept as 'real'] I know your mind can only handle so much and this borders on overload but if you take some time to digest it, it will become clearer in your head.
Once again I thank you for letting me inside your head,
ever grateful,
Gegner
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