Reply #12: One market under god...

[Locrian]

Reading a book called One Market Under God by Thomas Frank.

Great book - mainly about the dot com but applies to the free market bullshit.

In a nutshell, the big coup is that the "free marketeers" were able to (via the culture wars) become the "populist" movement. Remember the 90's adds for all the dot coms? Remember all the business mags wacking off to all the "new entrepreneurs" ? The cool new money, the 60's hippie quotes for companies? E*Trade? Town halls, focus groups, blah blab.>>>>???

It was the MARKET that was freedom and democratic. And if you were against that market you were against god, country, and democracy - because the market was **everything** and we were "all in business now".

Anyone who disagreed was "an elite". An old school regulator that was standing in the way - an "authoritarian".

So now - the fat cat, crony capitalist machine is where "all the smart people" go. And you're a sucker if you work hard and want benefits...

I post George Carlin now:

They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork.

And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money.

They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it . . . they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it.

You and I are not in The big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks.

The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . . continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you.

They don’t give a fuck about you . . . they don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it . . .”