Revolution? Or The Realization Of Orwell's Vision?

Corporations, as they endlessly scheme for absolute control over the planet's finite resources, will order the planet's social order into whatever structure is necessary to insure corporate dominance over the individual. Orwell recognized the corporate entities driven ambition to abolish represenative government in favor of corporate oligarchy. For anyone who isn't blind it's easy to recognize that representative democracy in the U.S. has been abandoned. The government, and the politicians who pretend to represent ordinary Americans, are a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the corporate state. At this point, only revolution will re-establish the democratic state. But revolution is extremely unlikely. Many Americans are so ignorant, uninformed and timid, they can't bring themselves to vote their criminal representatives out of office.

The U.S. Congress, has demonstrated time and time again, its submissive, fawning allegiance to its corporate masters. The men and women who comprise Congress are weak and grotesquely inadequate parodies of the nation's founders who put their lives, and the lives of their families, on the line to show the world that men could govern themselves, and neither needed nor wanted the old, worn model of the powerful, monied few, condemning them to lives of servitude. Try to imagine your Congressional Representative standing up to the British Army. Try to see him. Try, if you will, to see him as ready to die for a fledgling democracy that has yet to take root.

The dignity and respect that came with the offices of those who would devote their lives to the public good has given way to cheap theatre, and pretentious assumption, upon a public that is so jaded and removed from Congressional antics that those who regard the penultimate fortunes of the free republic are withdrawn and disinterested in any further pursuit of regaining that which has been so hopelessly lost. The Congressional jokers, led by a man who lacks the will to bring change to a profoundly troubled democracy, wag their senseless tongues to hasten the destruction of a once proud, and vibrant nation.

If there's any doubt of whose interests are served by Congress consider Obama, with a filibuster proof Congressional majority. He postures presidentially, but hasn't the will or courage to lead. His fantasy of health care for all Americans is a case in point. He stands meekly aside as five democrats, on the Senate Finance Committee, join ten republicans to discard a meaningful health care plan. This after a NYT survey revealed that 65% of the public favor an expansion of Medicare to include all Americans. Obama‘s allegiance to his corporate masters was promised along with the corporate campaign donations he so eagerly sought and accepted.

Corporate dominance over humanity, and the finite resources of the planet, are simply another religion expressed in the short term. The corporation is served in direct proportion to the extent an individual is, in immediacy, willing to surrender identity in the interests of the corporate good. Thus it is that corporate profit and growth are determined through maximum efficiency at the cost of individual identity. Orwell's classic 1984 drew a stark picture of the corporate state in its Big Brother role. The corporate/God entity rewards by the same criteria that religious orthodoxy promises Heaven. Heaven is the ultimate retirement community without sickness, pain, sorrow or need. The corporation mirrors the same precept with the only exception being that it promises its adherents immediate gratification in terms of a paycheck, health benefits, vacations and retirement while the other gives its reward or punishment only after death. “Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.” --- George Orwell

A system of increasingly diminished reward is the natural progression of the corporate as it seeks to maximize profit and control over its human elements. Employee benefits, as the corporation strengthens, are easily withdrawn after its employees are indebted to the company store. The store is of course the mortgage industry, the banks that loan to those willing to conform, the health care industry and the various other corporate entities that promise futures to those who toe the line. The corporate state is a many headed hydra that gives nothing, and takes everything.

The corporate monster has been successful in the U.S, but the rest of the world sees that it has allowed its greed and ambition to overtake it. U.S. estimation has fallen prodigiously among the world community as it recognizes there will be no political solution that addresses the unregulated and reckless corporate state.

The Right Wing, U.S. Supreme Court, is now considering arguments that would reverse the restrictions on corporations during elections, and also reverse a century of law that forbid any corporation from contributing to political campaigns. The venue under which these questions have come before the court are “corporate personhood.” That corporations are immortal, and have as their sole purpose the accumulation of ever more material does not enter into the considerations of the Roberts Court. Neither does the fact that the word “corporation” does not appear anywhere in the U.S. Constitution. Corporations have absolutely no loyalty to anything or one, with the exception of their shareholders. Americans, their eyes riveted on Beck, Limbaugh et al, take not so much as a passing interest in such corporate control of their most revered institutions of government.

Human destiny must be determined by its own active involvement. The extent to which humanity is willing to surrender its identity to an inhuman entity, whose single purpose is in controlling completely the human and the finite material resources of the planet, is the same extent to which humanity will influence its ultimate destination. All religious orthodoxy recognizes the earthbound authority of one ruling authority or another. Thus the common thread, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's” binds together orthodox religion with the secular.

That separation was an article of the Constitution before Bush Junior's appointment by a court so corrupt it was necessary for its highly partisan justices to invoke new law to install an immoral half-wit to the presidency. The imbecile Bush, just as in Orwell's perpetual war between Eurasia and Oceana, warned Americans that the war in Iraq would be without end.

The corporate state, in the interests of cheaper labor, has exported the U.S. manufacturing base out of the country. American workers are no longer able to produce the products the rest of the world recognizes as valuable. The collapse of the housing industry will be shortly followed by the collapse of the health care industry. The U.S. Congress, a corporate entity in its own right, intends doing nothing whatsoever towards controlling the ever spiraling costs of corporative health care. The appointment of Bush Junior to the presidency vastly escalated the diminishment of the U.S. as a responsible member of the world community. Today the government, fronting for the corporate state, must borrow ever increasing sums from foreign lenders as the government's money machine runs 24/7 printing dollars - all in a futile effort to sustain an unsustainable economy.

Bush Junior's wars were necessary Americans are told endlessly, just as Obama's continuation of them are. They have primarily served as another nail the United State's economic coffin. The wars are needed to keep the corporate defense department working while the U.S. dollar loses its status as the world's fiat currency. Even Zimbabwe, that tiny South African Nation, has replaced the dollar with the South African Rand. Russia, China, India and many other nations have taken steps to distance themselves from the U.S. dollar, and are increasingly refusing to acknowledge it as the world's reserve currency.

Back at the loony bin, media clowns distort the meaning of the Constitution, and lie with complete impunity for the express purpose of exciting the crowd. It is not possible to argue with Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, or their devoted audiences. Their language is couched in the simple cadences of emotional hysteria. No reasoned, thoughtful appeal can hope to penetrate the crowd's mind, that would only see such appeal as a tedious trial upon its extremely limited attention. The crowd desires, needs, the copious outpouring of extremity in the form of hate, slander and abuse. They need a tangible victim for their pain, and liberals serve admirably in that capacity. Their intransient ignorance permits them to believe that a liberal media dominates, and all the abundant evidence to the contrary will not sway them from believing it.

This is corporate crowd control at its best. It not only isolates the corporate detractors, but serves a further purpose - the erosion of language as a communication tool that has the power to sway and influence with logical and thoughtful debate. Newt Gingrich introduced a studied incivility to Congress during his climb to power. He developed a list of code words with which to slander his opponents. "betray, corrupt, shame, sick, steal, liar, thief and traitor” were a few such words that Gingrich urged his republican colleagues to surreptitiously use against democrats. Ironically, those words applied very specifically to Newt himself when he was charged, as House Speaker, of no less than 84 ethics violations. Any tyrant knows that an attack against a nation's language must be one of the first steps to absolute control.

The president is a man who wants to please the powerful to the extent he will abandon his base to do so. Obama caught the progressive community in a weak moment. After Bush, anyone at all who wasn't a Washington fixture, seemed an ideal candidate. Hillary Clinton, in retrospect, would have been a far more assertive and effective president. If she comes back in 2012 she'll win the election going away. As the corporations continue consolidating power the common men and women will find themselves increasingly helpless. They can't fight back because they have little money, and forcing change onto the corporate structure is a very expensive proposition. Lacking the dollars is exacerbated by the millions of Americans who consider any government program that benefits Americans as socialist, even though it was socialism that saved the capitalist banks from themselves. The corporations, with their network media, make certain that a large number of Americans are kept believing such nonsense. Orwell's insight into the future was uncannily accurate.

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