Most of the blogs, articles, comments and posts around the entire News/Opinion Internet (including TMV) have returned to completely frivolous and useless discussions between the right and left, conservatives and liberals, and Republicans and Democrats, with a few libertarian and fringe positions thrown in for diversity. Nothing the 90% of Americans say, write, believe, advocate or hope for means anything to those who actually make the important decisions in our nation. The election results, along with a myriad of opinion polls, are wholly worthless.
We live in a dying, ossified, sclerotic, paralyzed, polarized, corrupt, dysfunctional, paralyzed, and quickly declining World Empire where old concepts such as the rule of law, ethics, morality, and pursuing the common good no longer exist. Time is not on our side as we are wholly incapable of addressing and solving any of our huge problems. Just muddling through and endlessly debating everything large and small are no longer viable options except for those in perpetual denial of reality. It is evident that we lack leaders able to speak and citizens willing to hear the truth on many matters important to our collective well-being.
American Capitalism, Constitutional Representational Democracy, and American Exceptionalism are all dead. Our nation’s corrupt and crony oligarchy/plutocracy/kleptocracy has merged our political and economic systems to their sole advantage and has killed any semblance we are society governed by laws. Within a decade we will dissolve into full-fledged fascist feudalism.
Our political class responds only to the needs of the wealthiest citizens and corporation in our society. Their continued existence in office and ability to increase their personal wealth are solely dependent upon keeping their major benefactors happy. Both Republicans and Democrats have been corrupted and now serve the same masters of the global financial elite. The rest of the nation also exists to serve them directly or indirectly. We are merely worthless fungible peons, serfs and effective slaves.
The only national policies that will be pursued will be those approved by our wealthiest citizens and corporations – our opinions and the public’s best interests are damned to irrelevance. If people think debating the pros and cons of tax policy, our use of military power and growth of our vast security apparatus, the national budget or its fiscal policies, our healthcare and pension systems, or our educational, environmental or transportation infrastructure, are really wasting time. The nation will continue to only pursue policies solely designed to further enrich financial holdings and secure the power of our oligarchy.
Our 24/7 Info-entertainment news media, including the entire Internet and most blogs are today so numerous, cacophonous, redundant, extreme, and superficial, as to make them completely irrelevant. The most influential and watched news media consists of a few central sources with various outlets that are controlled by our oligarchy. They are designed to continuously feed their biased and untruthful propaganda to the duped and ignorant masses by endless repetition, entertaining glitz, sheer size, and bombast.
The only schadenfreude positive in this overall negative outlook is that this march towards fascist feudalism will enslave not just the U.S. but most of the globe. Eventually the system will self-implode as uncontrolled greed, narcissism, and pursuing short-term profits over everything else cannot be the basis of a perpetually sustainable system. The uncontrolled rape of our planet’s ecosystem will eventually kill all human life, including the just, the unjust, the sociopaths, the psychopaths, and all the rest of us.
Alternatively, the masses might finally wake from their stupor, self-induced ignorance, apathy, and endless preoccupation with various forms of transitory entertainment to realize that their lives are worthless, debased, indebted, impoverished, and just meaningless mounds of crap. They might finally determine who is responsible for the mess, after acknowledging they let it happen to themselves. Only then will the sociopaths who dominate our business enterprises and most of our public and private institutions be unmasked and identified for disapprobation and condemnation.
When the majority of people have nothing left to lose, then the violent revolutions will begin across the globe. The sociopaths have run circles around the rest of us for the past 30 years and we are now their slaves. Unfortunately, they constitute at most 5% of the total population. Even with 10% more of the population ready to protect, defend and work for them, the other 85% will simply overwhelm them.
The overriding question will be whether most people will ever wake up and realize what has happened before our planet condemns us all to extinction. Please don’t hope for some technological miracles to save us from ourselves, or that we will somehow find a way to move to some new life-supporting planet many light years away.
At least guillotines are a low-tech technology that any post-industrial or backwards economy can readily construct and use. Just hope when the bloodbath finally arrives, it does not put you at the wrong end of one of these effective devices.
Another Rant Submitted by Marc Pascal from Phoenix, Arizona. To see who influences my worldview, I invite TMV readers to read these other excellent Internet blog sites:
www.marketwatch.com
www.oftwominds.com/blog.html
www.nakedcapitalism.com
www.declineoftheempire.com
www.financialarmageddon.com
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
http://michael-hudson.com
www.businessweek.com
www.thetransportpolitic.com
www.wired.com
www.chris-floyd.com (Empire Burlesque).