Thursday, August 10, 2017

Random Political Thoughts Part Seven

The free market solution to overpopulation is mass starvation. Can we not think of a better way?
The free market sees everything in terms of commodities, human beings not excluded. It’s just a matter of supply and demand. If you have too much of something, say labor (which human beings call “human beings), it then becomes cheap. If you have way too much of something, best to dump it down the drain the way we do cow’s milk when we have more cheese than we can possibly sell (which is different than more than we can eat, which again is different than more than we need.).
I have no problem with capitalists. They serve a valuable function in society. After all, prostitutes and drug dealers are capitalists, and even making their businesses illegal can’t make people stop demanding their services. But to suggest we hand over our nation to them lock stock and barrel is insane.
The capitalist works the milker of cows so hard that he creates a surplus, and yet the milker is paid such a low wage he cannot afford to buy back all he has produced. The worker and his children go without while the capitalist is forced to dump the milk into the earth in order to get rid of the surplus. This is sick enough and yet it does not even begin to account for the suffering of the cow and the environmental degradation that results in nothing more than wasting the milk, the environment, and the labor. It is merely the cost we pay. It is the sacrifice we make to the god of capitalism.


The problems we face today we face because we quit fighting the good fight once we got our slice of the pie.

Would that those who view the Second Amendment in absolute terms view the Sixth Commandment the same way.

A bomb dropped in error cannot be called back. A nation, once shattered, can never be put back together again. The scar will always be there, a reminder of violence.

There is a more accurate word for pre-emptive strike, and that is aggression. There is a word for someone who uses terms like pre-emptive strike, and that is deceiver.

When the two main parties lose touch with the working class, it leaves an opening for socialists and fascists to fill, and the powerful classes will tilt in the favor of the fascists every time.

Unchecked power inevitably goes insane. When one’s power is unchecked, so is his perception of the world. Suddenly, all things are possible. The CIA, NSA, there is no security agency that is accountable to anyone anymore. We now no longer merely have to deal with corrupt institutions, we have to deal with insane ones.

War only seems a good idea to those who have never experienced it or those who have been perverted by it.

Governments don’t demand peace, people do. If we ever want peace, it’s up to us as human beings to create it. We cannot leave it up to our governments, because they will always insist the way to peace is through war.

The typical working class Republican is smart enough to realize his boss is an idiot yet dumb enough to vote someone just like him into office.

The more your admiration for police officers and soldiers becomes, the more you are saying that most people need force in order to be controlled, that freedom applies to the few rather than the many.

The truth relies on you knowing history, lies depend on you being ignorant of it.

The Romans knew in order to pacify the population they needed to give them bread and circuses. The U.S. is cutting out the bread but is doubling down on the circus end of things.

Who controls the machines controls society. Technology, taken to its natural conclusion, will make drudgery unnecessary or else make people unnecessary. If people control technology, they will be liberated, if capital owns it, they will be eliminated.

The principle task of the Republican Party is to fire up their right while the principle aim of the Democrats is to mollify their left.

Asking the experts of today to solve the world’s problems is like asking the priests of the volcano god how to end the drought. All they will tell you to do is sacrifice a virgin, it’s all they know. Today’s experts are little different, there are just more of them. Ask them what their solutions are, and they will tell you to bomb it, privatize it or medicate it.
Everyone in a position of power in a corrupt system is de facto corrupt himself. In bowing to a corrupt authority, they have surrendered their conscience, have proven themselves unable to choose between right and wrong. They cannot save us, they can only hurt us. We must help ourselves, there is no other power we can turn to. 

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