"Nothing's sadder than a bunch of some grown ass adults who can't think for themselves."
"Russia or the USA? Who do you think is next in China's sights for depopulation, colonization and gaining more natural resources? They recently did it to Tibet. But now Tibet's mostly destroyed and used up. And China is growing. The rulers of China have been planning this for decades. It's not going to stop until you wise up. Hell, the fascists that run the USA these days will probably sell North America to the fascists who currently run China."
-A man in a bar after I asked him why he thought the CCP was fifty times worse than the Nazi party.
Actually, that man I quoted above said some more things that were even worse. Upon researching his 'ideas' I found that they were substantiated. (Go ahead now and search for yourselves online. It will take hours. Don't worry. The rest of this rant will be waiting for you to read when you get back.........)
The scary thing about all this is that it seems that the era or eras of human slavery and degradation are far from finished if any of our so-called rulers (around the world) have their say. Hell, they don't need our cooperation. They can manufacture our consent through shiny toys and other distractions. From Al Qaeda and extremist Islamists to the Christian Fundamentalist plans at "reconstructing" a Christian Dominion in the USA...to African despots who keep their own people enslaved to multinational corporations and medical research programs to the uber-fascist and racist expansionist policies of the Chinese government...the idiots are running amok and they are in charge of the vast majority of the armed forces and economic powers on this planet. The machine is continuously making its inroads and its moves in its continual invasion into the quality of your lives. And we, the populations of Earth are buying into it lock stock and barrel. No wonder the children are angry enough to throw bricks into chain-store windows. No wonder that some people are freaking out and shooting up a bunch of people or blowing up things. People are angry and frightened and atomized.
This state of people getting sick of it all and fed up can easily be channeled into the usual socially acceptable patterns of "get them before they get us" or of "get mine first before someone else gets it" and no one will ever think to the wiser. No one will ever see the long term large scale ramifications of living in a global market where the very idea that this is not what we want is laughed at for being an absurd extremism that should be cured by either drugs, shopping, entertainment...or failing that, psychotherapy or re-training.
Why am I so upset? Because I am a human being first off. But also because of the socio-cultural milieu of which I am a part: The Irish-speaking world, which, like other hard pressed Celtic communities, has witnessed and undergone the same old damned imperialism, invasion (social, cultural, and economic), and oblivion for the past several hundred years. I don't really believe in cultural inheritance-type ideas, but perhaps I do have a certain inbred hatred towards fascists and other dominator-type sorts that comes handed-down through generations of family ethnic heritage and from my own personal choice to participate in a modern Celtic community that is struggling to survive as free people. Perhaps. But I still say that my cultural allegiance is only one influence that may explain it. Perhaps it's my Erisianism that makes me hate fascists and their ilk. Perhaps I actually take the ideal of democracy seriously enough to think that it is worth it.
Who can really say? What's that? Oh look, something shiny.
The exiles of New Orleans are learning and will learn the abject lessons of the way power works in this world and society as they see their city rebuilt with most of them locked out of any future living there. I know this for a fact. It's what happened to the Irish 150 years ago during the Great Starvation when 5 million Irish people deemed a "surplus population" were allowed to die the miserable death that famine and its sequential diseases wrought. What did the survivors have to do to survive? They had to leave. Look at Ireland (excluding the North) today. A rich comfortable society that is pretty and perfect for tourists and playboys-and-girls. Looks nice on the post card doesn't it. (Perhaps the grass is greener when countless dead have fertilized the soil, eh?) The people who run the USA have been handed a perfect opportunity to get rid of the poor in an attractive tourist area and they will use it fully. Don't kid yourselves.
Fascists are everywhere. They are in power, or will be shortly, over society. And they hate YOU. Not only do they hate YOU, if they can't reshape YOU into being one of them, they will destroy YOU. And they will stop at nothing to do whatever else it is that they wish to do. Even if it means starting another world war, or continuing some war on some terrorists, or in blowing up crowds of people (like the Islamic fascists). They are making moves. What are you doing about it?
That's what I thought. You're doing nothing. That's okay. Most people are content with doing nothing. They are content with the superior marketability of the products offered to them. They are content with the prefabricated "choices" they are offered. They like the idea of the great illusion of freedom under which they have succumbed because it is really just too darned dark and scary to think about any alternatives. It's too damned thick and dank to think that the fascist dominators are running things and their little lackeys are everywhere in society conspiring against any intelligence that doesn't further the five or six acceptable 'alternative views.' I know what you are thinking of saying to me now. "What's that? Stop talking like that! My brain hurts now. Let me get back to my entertainment and my smoking pot. What's the matter with people like you, Hugh, who always hold up signs saying 'DOOM' with your silly hats and your weird religions with unheard-of Goddesses that say we are free simply by choosing to grow a spine?"
Fuck. They know they should really just put on their jack boots and start parading around. At least let me get some yuks in by throwing tomatoes at their dumb asses before they lock me up and throw away the key. Even so, they can't get us all. There might be too many fascists or of those who like obeying the fascists (or of pretending to be important fascists), but they still aren't wise enough to find us all, as worried as they are about their shiny things. Human nature, being what it is, is full of abnormalities and glitches and anomalies and of all sorts of uncomfortable facts. Hell, they can even try to breed us out. Fat chance. As long as there is disagreement, trouble, and strife in society, there will be a chance for us...Hell, as long as there is sex, there will be people like us saying "told you so."
Think about that the next time you buy your ice-cream from that truck that blasts that corny music that can be heard for miles around.