They're not impressed by Halloween costumes or painted faces.
They're not impressed by fake coffins.
They're not impressed by human sound checks or spontaneous song and dance.
They're not impressed by people who continue to get themselves arrested for temporarily blocking building entrances or handcuffing themselves to fences.
The good news is there is no need to impress them. They merely have to be removed from the picture.
People can remind me that Martin Luther King was arrested frequently and he and his followers protested peacefully while the authorities used violence. At that time, it looked bad for a president who was killing young Americans in Vietnam. What made it look bad was the fact that the media actually showed the protest activities. Johnson finally had to do something about it.
However, that was then and this is now. Today, Martin Luther King or Gandhi or any of those we hold up as peaceful resisters would be laughed at just as much as today's protesters are mocked and ignored. In 1965, corporations did not totally run this nation -- this world. If Martin Luther King was protesting peacefully today, we may not even know it. The media would not allow the rest of us to see the speech he made from the Lincoln Memorial, one of the greatest speeches ever delivered. Unethical corporations own all of the media and that speech might or might not be mentioned on the nightly news. Of course, Fox News would cover it as if King was an outlier, a troublemaker who hated successful people and the millions of people who mentally fellate each and every reporter or pundit who works for Fox News, as well cretins such as Rush Limbaugh, would believe them. Don't use Doctor King as an example to prove that peaceful resistance works; use Doctor King as an example to show that peaceful resistance worked at one time.
And the wealthy keep getting more of our money. Do you not believe that we're tucking Mark Zuckerberg more comfortably into the 1% by letting him and his sponsors lead us to see Facebook, Twitter and other publically traded "social media" as positive entities? Were there not so called unsponsored, untraded Message Boards online at one time that basically served the same purpose? This is how we will lose -- are losing - the neutrality of the internet, folks. Corporate America has figured out a way to take over the internet and we're helping them.
As I originally mentioned, we know who's destroying the lives of so many people in The FUSA and around the world. If they were no longer in power, what a wonderful world it could be! However someone has to remove them from power. There are many, many, many more of us than there are of them. I'm just sayin', ya know?
There's a line in a song made popular by The Who. The song is "We Won't Get Fooled Again". The line is, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Maybe this opinion piece might lead one to believe that, if we get rid of them, we'll just get more of them in their place. This lecture by Economics Professor Richard Wolff presents an alternative to that. It's long, but anything but boring. He's a dynamic speaker and makes a whole hell of a lot of sense.
Meanwhile, I bet you'll be able to buy Halloween costumes cheaply on November 1.
To friendship,
Michael
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