Something is Wrong With Our World

[Fearless]

Something is wrong in our world when the interests of the few outweigh the interests of the many. Not unlike feudal Europe with lords and peasants, today is ever increasingly divided by wealth. Corporatism has overtaken this nation and indeed this world in the past thirty years or so. Corporations, granted the rights of people, with the wealth and influence that no one person could wield, have broken down wall after wall of protections set up to limit their influence on the political sphere, the economic market, and labor.

What can we say of a nation which decides it is legal for businesses, whose wealth is not in question, to play any role in setting the rules which restrict them? In what just world is it ok for those who are looking out for themselves to decide how this game we call society will be undertaken. In the end corporations are our lords and we are their peasants. They own us. From the clothes we wear to the food we eat. Lead paint, cheap unhealthy foods, restrictions on welfare, the non-guarantee of Social Security, the forcing of Americans who cannot afford to heat their own homes to pay for health care they can't use -- examples of corporations run amok.

Peasants depended on their lords for protection, for food, and housing. They provided labor for the lord in exchange for meager living. Poor homes, long hours, the forced fleecing of the labor-force, and the fighting of the lord's wars against other groups. We have poor homes, we work long hours or no hours if the jobs go elsewhere because it's cheaper, we train our replacements, we work for a pension that disappears and contribute to Social Security which is not promised to provide for us one day, and we fight wars which make companies like Haliburton rich on the backs of America's new peasant class.

It is corporatism plain and simple and we must fight it. The rich do not deserve to get richer off our labor. We are worth proper and equitable health care, food, education, and living conditions the same as the CEO's of any major company. If not for us, there would be no them. We must stand up. We must challenge the system of corruption which has installed the puppets of corporatism into our nation's capital before it is too late. We have been sent reeling these last few years, blows flurrying from every direction and no were to turn, no where to hide, nowhere left to breathe. We must fight. We must reject corporatism. Stop buying from profiteering companies. We have the skills to fend for ourselves. They must realize that it isn't us that are dispensable. It is them.

IT IS THEM!

http://unwilling-dystopia.blogspot.com/2010/01/somethings-wrong-with-our-world.html

[dbonds]

1. Exactly what I have been thinking.

[The_Commonist]

2. Stop giving them your money.

Do not work for them, do not buy from them.
If you have a corporate job, quit.
Cut up all your credit cards, and/or move your money into a credit union.
Stop paying your taxes.
Stop buying their gasoline and processed foods.
Do not pay interest for anything.
Do not let them profit from your life.
It's the only chance we have...


Not gonna be so easy after all, eh?

[Fearless]

3. Nothing in life that is truly worthwhile is easy.

I did not say the things you've said, necessarily. I'm saying that we need a fundamental change in how we are beholden to corporate interests. I actually am fine with them existing. I believe in balance. There should be private enterprise big and small, because to ban or even to restrict them is to spit in the face of the values on which this nation was founded on. We need to change how we let them take advantage of us. It is our fault. We let them. And hard decisions will be made or we will be beholden to them for our very existence. To corporations we would be slaves.

[jwirr]

4. In the 60-70s there was a book (can't remember) that suggested

we have two future choices: the tribal lifestyle or the feudal reign of the rich. Unfortunately most the people were not told about this and the corporations and their owners took the reigns. Many of us have tried to "go back to the earth" in many ways but I am not sure that will mean anything against the power of the corporations. Taxes can be a weapon against us with all the benefits going to the feudal lord.

[Land Shark]

5. I'ts not supposed to be WE THE PEASANTS. This won't stand. K&R n/t

[Ho Tai]

6. If we don't storm the Bastille

(whatever that might look like), then nothing's going to change, except for the worse. The Founding Fathers would be so very ashamed...

[mwb970]

9. I am wondering when the backlash wll start.

If I lived in a gated community, I'd start beefing up the gates and walls about now.

[Fearless]

7. Kick for evening.

[Vidar]

8. K&R.