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Catastrophic Failure
Oct. 7th, 2012 02:04 pmIt would appear that I have failed. I am the failure here. Every step of the way, the stubborn, unforgiving personality God gave me led me to be unwilling to do as society deemed fit. I refused to continue my college education due to the costs and risks involved. I refused to become a part of the culture at large - refused to buy into materialism - refused to reduce my maturity and serious demeanor to that which can be more easily apprehended by the majority at large. As a result, I have become a writhing mass of misanthropic agony, uttering condemnations at the world which I disagree with so profoundly, cold and alone as I am. I lost my ability to be happy, the most damning of all things because it leads all those who come in contact with me away eventually...and fell into a spiral of solitude and depression...not because of mental instability or chemical imbalance...but because I have found the world to be incredibly destructive, mean, exclusive and sinister, with few exceptions throughout the whole of my life. I am not entirely alone of course, many of the intellectuals I have held on to from my days as a young teenager felt the same in their days, so long ago.
Nothing has changed since then except the distractions we have at our disposal. There is as much crime, as much slavery; there is as much hate, adultery, war, death and poverty. There was a middle class even in the days of feudalism. People "owned" land, lived relatively comfortably, ate well and raised their children...despite their taxation and ownership by their lord. Today, people would point to collections of material objects as a kind of class indicator, but in reality, there is only an extremely small subset of people who can retire incredibly early, or who are "independently wealthy" in such a fashion that they need not actually work until retirement - or longer - to live. There is only an extremely small subset of people who may attend institutions of higher education, private or boarding schools, without financial concern. That small subset is akin to the lords and ladies, the politicians and the clergymen of the days of yore. Contained in that small subset, is a mass of wealth that has been passing down generation to generation for hundreds of years. Some new faces, some old blood, but always such a small, minute percentage...who control almost everything we can possibly imagine, have every advantage conceivable, and are never described as our collective enemy, which they most certainly are.
They are the enemy. They are not successful; they are thieves. They are not philanthropists; they are tax evaders. They are not the engine of "job creation"; they are the engine of imprisonment and slavery. They are not providing you with the truth; they are feeding you propaganda. They are the enemies of free will, and thus the enemy of God, as they hold above us all our freedom, proclaiming from their thrones that they have earned every bit of their advantageous positions, and that they have every right to pass on those advantages to those of their choosing - namely their offspring, relatives, and friends - without concern for the merit of said individuals. Not only do they perform such a grievous insult upon us, they also tell us that if only we worked harder, educated ourselves better, tried harder, we too could be like them. Never is there a mention of luck, family name or association, which is all it amounts to in the end.
They Are Thieves
In our age today, we must be daft to not recognize the thievery we continue to allow. Einstein believed that technology would eventually eliminate almost all need for human labor, and yet, here we stand in the twenty-first century, with robots capable of simple manual labor, nearly fully automated jet planes, only a short time away from automated transport over land, and almost all manner of industry ninety-percent automated as far as production purposes are concerned. Yet, in the United States alone we find ourselves with wages that have been falling relative to the rate of inflation for generations now. But this is not simply an issue of wage, so much as it is an issue of time. The wealthy, the owners of the automated production facilities, our employers, our lords and ladies, our common enemy, are not just thieves of earned wages...they are time pilferers.
We expect in our lives, in almost any form of employ, we would work at a minimum forty hours per week, leaving us with about seventy-two hours of time at which we dispose of at our discretion, excepting of course the various requisites for our continued persistence we must attend to, such as the purchasing of necessities and commuting time. We may, at best, receive a few weeks vacation, if we stay in the employ of the same corporation long enough. For the majority of us, this means very little freedom to travel, very little freedom to pursue our personal interests, and ultimately, our complete enslavement. Even though in the past one-hundred years we have seen the automation of nearly all of the tasks we would normally complete as wage slaves, we work just as long - if not longer - and receive less material compensation for that work. I need not tell you where it is going - you know, whether you admit it or not - whether your political platform of choice admits it or not - and whether or not you're wealthy. It goes to the subset, as it always has. Just as it did in the days of feudalism and before, in the long forgotten empires of the past.
We are fools for allowing it to continue. We had a real chance with the union movements of the 40s and 50s. In the 60s a whole different breed of people came together and showed the power of collective demands. But we find ourselves now in a wholly different position. The end of pensions, the beginning of 401ks that serve the subset more than they serve us - instead of providing you with any guaranteed form of retirement by the time you are nearly incapable of slaving for them anyway, they provide you with the Stock Market - an overly complicated gambling device that the wealthy and politicians both regularly beat the odds on, while the vast majority of investors do not. The end of unions, and the beginning of wage slavery - where there is no bargaining, you get what you are told you will receive. It could even be argued that wage slavery is worse than the slavery minorities suffered in the past - at least in those cases, you were fed and clothed, provided room and board. You had no worry of losing these things so long as you continued to work, and if your employer went out of business, you'd simply be sold to someone else. Today, if an employer goes out of business, you have nothing. If an employer no longer wishes to employ you, you have nothing. You are literally kicked out on the street - you will lose your home to back taxes, unpaid mortgage or unpaid rent unless you find adequate employ somewhere else. You will not be able to afford food. You will have to rely on other wage slaves to help you out of the situation if you do not find a new slave owner to work for.
Nothing has changed since then except the distractions we have at our disposal. There is as much crime, as much slavery; there is as much hate, adultery, war, death and poverty. There was a middle class even in the days of feudalism. People "owned" land, lived relatively comfortably, ate well and raised their children...despite their taxation and ownership by their lord. Today, people would point to collections of material objects as a kind of class indicator, but in reality, there is only an extremely small subset of people who can retire incredibly early, or who are "independently wealthy" in such a fashion that they need not actually work until retirement - or longer - to live. There is only an extremely small subset of people who may attend institutions of higher education, private or boarding schools, without financial concern. That small subset is akin to the lords and ladies, the politicians and the clergymen of the days of yore. Contained in that small subset, is a mass of wealth that has been passing down generation to generation for hundreds of years. Some new faces, some old blood, but always such a small, minute percentage...who control almost everything we can possibly imagine, have every advantage conceivable, and are never described as our collective enemy, which they most certainly are.
They are the enemy. They are not successful; they are thieves. They are not philanthropists; they are tax evaders. They are not the engine of "job creation"; they are the engine of imprisonment and slavery. They are not providing you with the truth; they are feeding you propaganda. They are the enemies of free will, and thus the enemy of God, as they hold above us all our freedom, proclaiming from their thrones that they have earned every bit of their advantageous positions, and that they have every right to pass on those advantages to those of their choosing - namely their offspring, relatives, and friends - without concern for the merit of said individuals. Not only do they perform such a grievous insult upon us, they also tell us that if only we worked harder, educated ourselves better, tried harder, we too could be like them. Never is there a mention of luck, family name or association, which is all it amounts to in the end.
They Are Thieves
In our age today, we must be daft to not recognize the thievery we continue to allow. Einstein believed that technology would eventually eliminate almost all need for human labor, and yet, here we stand in the twenty-first century, with robots capable of simple manual labor, nearly fully automated jet planes, only a short time away from automated transport over land, and almost all manner of industry ninety-percent automated as far as production purposes are concerned. Yet, in the United States alone we find ourselves with wages that have been falling relative to the rate of inflation for generations now. But this is not simply an issue of wage, so much as it is an issue of time. The wealthy, the owners of the automated production facilities, our employers, our lords and ladies, our common enemy, are not just thieves of earned wages...they are time pilferers.
We expect in our lives, in almost any form of employ, we would work at a minimum forty hours per week, leaving us with about seventy-two hours of time at which we dispose of at our discretion, excepting of course the various requisites for our continued persistence we must attend to, such as the purchasing of necessities and commuting time. We may, at best, receive a few weeks vacation, if we stay in the employ of the same corporation long enough. For the majority of us, this means very little freedom to travel, very little freedom to pursue our personal interests, and ultimately, our complete enslavement. Even though in the past one-hundred years we have seen the automation of nearly all of the tasks we would normally complete as wage slaves, we work just as long - if not longer - and receive less material compensation for that work. I need not tell you where it is going - you know, whether you admit it or not - whether your political platform of choice admits it or not - and whether or not you're wealthy. It goes to the subset, as it always has. Just as it did in the days of feudalism and before, in the long forgotten empires of the past.
We are fools for allowing it to continue. We had a real chance with the union movements of the 40s and 50s. In the 60s a whole different breed of people came together and showed the power of collective demands. But we find ourselves now in a wholly different position. The end of pensions, the beginning of 401ks that serve the subset more than they serve us - instead of providing you with any guaranteed form of retirement by the time you are nearly incapable of slaving for them anyway, they provide you with the Stock Market - an overly complicated gambling device that the wealthy and politicians both regularly beat the odds on, while the vast majority of investors do not. The end of unions, and the beginning of wage slavery - where there is no bargaining, you get what you are told you will receive. It could even be argued that wage slavery is worse than the slavery minorities suffered in the past - at least in those cases, you were fed and clothed, provided room and board. You had no worry of losing these things so long as you continued to work, and if your employer went out of business, you'd simply be sold to someone else. Today, if an employer goes out of business, you have nothing. If an employer no longer wishes to employ you, you have nothing. You are literally kicked out on the street - you will lose your home to back taxes, unpaid mortgage or unpaid rent unless you find adequate employ somewhere else. You will not be able to afford food. You will have to rely on other wage slaves to help you out of the situation if you do not find a new slave owner to work for.
