Banks and corporations own virtually everything. You know it, I know it, pretty much everyone knows it, though most justify it to avoid the terrible reality of such a thing.
Democracy accounts for crap: from birth we're inundated with propagandic marketing and advertising messages, it was utterly permeated culture, and now in the social media age our most intimate social interactions are commoditized. Political candidates are funded by corporations and capitalists, and their political propaganda and disinformation is very successfully peddled (see lead, tobacco, oil and climate change denial.)
How then can we possibly hope to fight against such a monstrous system? We cannot fight against the propaganda on a large scale: porky has a whole army of think tanks, psychologists, market researchers, advertisers, pundits, and "journalists" at their disposal. Even if we did through some miracle happen to get critical mass to start a revolution, porky has the supply chains, the bombs, the soldiers, the resources.
Is mental liberation the best we should hope for, to value the perception and knowledge of the gross injustices that we are immersed in, and to seek to mentally liberate those who are capable of being so without some impossible larger goal of actual revolution?
We can't be mentally (spiritually, etc) liberated without being materially liberated. That's what all the new-age spirituality people don't get, or can't get. Of course it is landlords, bourgeois, petty-bourgeois, professionals, etc who are into spirituality as consumer product (not in the sense of Christian church, which is more overtly authoritarian, for poormies). Do not doubt that the spiritualists also believe in the sanctity of private property, across the board.
As for our situation, I would heed patience. Burgerstan has built itself tall, but the taller it becomes, the more precarious its supremacy. Of course it could go down in bloody civil war, Indonesia style. Call their bluff.
Asher Diaz
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Zachary Murphy
Lords and mother church owne virtually everything. Thou knowest it, I knowest it, prettey much every-one knowest it, though most justify it to avoid the realty most grimm and terrible.
Feudalism accounts for naught: from birthe we're inundated with propagandic tapestries and advertising scrolls, it hath utterly permeated culture, and now in the age of the forum publicce our more intimate social interactions art commoded. Royale princes art funded by guilds and gentry, and their divine right and majesty ist verily successfilly peddl'd (see leade, tobacco, oile and round world denyal.)
However then canst we possibly hope to fight gainst such a monstrous system? We surely canst fight gainst the dogma on a scale writ large: lordy hast a most prodigeous hostte of priests, footmen, yeomen, knights, troubadours, and "chroniclers" at their dis-posal. Even wert we, through some intervention most miraculous, to hap upon critical masse to start a rebellion, lordy hast the grainairies, the swords, the soldiery, the castles.
Is the best fore which such as we could hoppe lib'ration of the minde, to vallhue the percept and the knowing of the injustices most grosse which in we are immersed, and to seeketh lib'ration mentally those who art capable of so being such withe-out the most ludicrous grandiose gole of acktual rebellion?
Liam Myers
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Joshua Nguyen
Corporations in a modern sense have only been around for a hundred-some years or so. Who knows what things will be like two-hundred years from now?
My advice is to root for the extinction of humanity so that our poisonous greed won't spread beyond our planet.
