so, why is it the "self-regulating" economy is full of felons?

with the most recent scandal at bear-sterns, and need i remind you about enron (worldcom... etc etc), is it any wonder that people are waking up to the fact that our generation is rejecting corporate slavery? 

every time i meet someone that works for a large, faceless, sociopathic corporation, they admit it with some element of shame.  subconscious or not, it is manifest in the rolling of the eyes and sigh. 

so, what keeps them doing it?  financial obligations, both real and imaginary!

most of my hours working are to pay rent.

food used to be a big part of my budget.  it's expensive to eat healthy.  not only here in in nyc, however, as it was just as expensive in buffalo (though rent was a lot cheaper).  now i eat better than ever by getting a part time job at a vegan organic (local in season) restaurant and salvaging the organic foods wasted by retailers.  i also support my local co-ops, farmers' markets, and CSAs when i do need to make a food purchase, cutting out the corporate middle-man as much as possible and putting the money directly into the producers' hands.  i also believe it is important to support the use of hemp for energy, clothing, milk and other products).

what other forces were used to keep me enslaved?

loans for school and cars.
shitty new clothing and furniture laced with chemicals.
mind-numbing cable tv, movies, and video games.
some sick compulsion to prove how well i could damage myself with drugs and alcohol.
...?

i realized these things were killing me.
i realized these financial obligations make people sick (spiritually, mentally, and physically).
i realized i was sick.

forget about i.
the i was created by corporations, using freudian psychology to manipulate the soul into a materialistic machine.  shaped and squeezed into a mindless mass programmed by the media. 

completely self-involved, overly anxious manic depressives.

how many people can you name that take a pharmaceutical that fucks with their brain chemistry?  family, friends, lovers?

how many people do you know that love getting "fucked up" every time they drink (or brag about how many cigs they smoked, or how much blow they did, or...)?

how many people do you know that suffer from an eating disorder, are workaholics, or are addicted to television? 

typically, the explanation is some inescapable sense of helplessness.  like there is no choice but to continue damaging ourselves despite knowing that we are doing so. 

we want to damage ourselves.

we are all working class, whether you live below the "poverty line" or earn several mil every year.  you most likely work for a living earning dollars to buy the necessities of life and that means you are a commodity.  that means you will buy the same shit, eat the same shit, and watch the same shit as everyone else. 

some members of the working class don't actually work for a living, because society has provided them with the wealth necessary to fulfil their every whim and desire.  they are still a cog in the system, filling a niche of completely self-indulgent consumers that help guide and direct the consumption of those "less fortunate."  they, too, are still mostly miserable and chasing some impossible dream that is most likely littered with debt.

financial obligations.

they're addictive and masochistic.  even the multimillionaires that make the big decisions in sociopathic corporations and take home millions and live off expense accounts are so addicted they feel compelled to steal even more millions from their employees and investors (and they especially enjoy stealing from the public) to afford even bigger financial obligations. 

in a world where economics and politics are driven by corporate profitability, it is essential that we all share a consumerist mindset.  even politicians are sold by the media using polarizing issues.  psychological manipulation used to convince the voting public that two major party candidates are the only two choices.  consumer narcissism allows us to devalue opposing political opinions without any real discussion, the same way purchase decisions are presented as infallible.  our candidates are bought and resold to us by corporations and the global elite.

just like the global economy of cookie-cutter homes, cars, clothes, entertainment, and lifestyle, we really don't have a choice, just the illusion of it.

isn't it troubling to any of you obama supporters that he's felt compelled to refuse the 85 million in public financing to use his own insane amount of money given to him by supporters buying his "change?"

where will obama's nearly 300 million go?

will it go to:
the media giants that manipulate his campaign (knowing their campaign ads are only as effective as the media lets them be)?
the oil company that gets his campaign convoy to all 50 states?
extravagant and wasteful publicity events for wealthy campaign "investors?"

but do you really think a guy running on cash and a message of hope is really going to deliver any real change?  didn't we put him and the rest of the dems in charge of congress for believing those same delusions?  isn't he a product of the same broken system we are demanding someone fix?

he is not offering a message of real change.  he is promising small improvements and band-aids to cover up just a few symptoms of a broken system.  a diversion to appease the masses long enough for the system to continue unaffected.

he is a consumer being sold as a leader to the rest of the consumers.  he is a product of political psychological and sociological manipulators.  he will not change anything.  he is just as dependent on the comforts of empty corporate pampering as most everyone else. 

in order for their to be real change, americans have to change. 

everyone is just standing around waiting for some one magical person to come around and fix everything for them.

"please, don't make me leave my comfort zone full of prime time television, comforting junk food, masochistic obsessions, and mindless self-indulgence!"

capitalism is a system where actors make the best decision for the sake of their immediate pleasure and are not required to consider the negative consequences that result as long is it is productive and profitable.

anarchy is not simply a political ideology.  it is a way of life that is healthy for people and the planet.  it is a calling towards freedom from wage slavery and poisonous consumption.  it means taking responsibility for our own survival and well-being, and those of the planet.  it means a return to community to provide for our needs.  it means creating sustainable communities from the ground up, instead of the top down.

capitalism enslaves the mind, body, and soul for profit.

corporate media controls what you think.
corporate agriculture controls what you eat.
corporate religions control what you believe (or, more importantly, don't believe).

corporate government protects profitability. 

corporate culture is evolving.  it is making a move away from individualism to collectivism. 

as capitalism erodes, are you going to wait for it to collapse on top of you, or start running now, when i yell, "run!"