by a pre-emptive indoctrination of children
with the wisdom of dog-eat-dog competition
which creates the divide-and-conquer infrastructure
that allows oppressors to blame their own victims.
And since kids might stumble into cooperation and empathy,
those in social programs are deemed weak and pathetic
in an effort to get the victims to agree and accept
that they're the primary cause of the system's effect.
The plutocracy exercises increasing dominion
via consolidation of capital at the people's expense
concentrates it periodically, ratcheting up its intensity,
during engineered crises like wars and depressions.
The United States is no longer the home of the free and the brave
where life, liberty and happiness are pursued,
but of people living in fear of financial and physical terrorism
and co-opted by the carnival of consumerism.
It's a cauldron of inequality, poverty and misery
where lives are lived in quiet desperation,
in free(dom of) speech zones and the pursuit of stuff
in a marked down and militarized nation.
Americans refuse to believe that they've accepted to live
under a system that subjugates, denigrates and infantilizes them,
and that the many creating the wealth at the bottom
are engineered as ignorant, obedient and defensive.
And as the money is funneled up to the few
the many are bought off with shiny oil-based objects -
I-pods, X boxes, PCs, plasma TVs, SUVs,
McMansions, Mickey D's, boob jobs and botox -
strung on a charm bracelet/slave chain
of the non-negotiable American lifestyle
constructed on the ashes our foreign trade policies
have made of other people's rights and their lives.
Americans seem not to notice
that nature has been reduced from The Source
to a package of exploitable resources,
and that citizens are relegated to being consumers
who, in turn, are eaten up by their choices
or that a not-so-invisible hand signs the legislation
that makes foreign and domestic American policy
and turns what started as participatory democracy
into a Donner Party version of economics.
Americans don't want
to hear, to see, to speak, or to feel
anything
about what's actually happening to them
or being done in their name,
but most of all they don't want to
THINK
because thinking leads to
cognitive dissonance and confronting the pain
of knowing how the American lifestyle
is, and has been, maintained.
But the aversion therapy administered in schools
and cultural reinforcement thereafter
keeps them safely away from
the truth ,
imprisoned like dogs
with electronic shock collars.
And besides, they're so busy with their shopping,
which is Americans' ultimate function,
that they don't have the time to tune into
what that "little voice" has been trying to tell them
that this system relentlessly perpetuates itself
by means of infinite, unlimited growth,
which it carries on by any means necessary
like a parasite that strangles its host.
It has to kill the goose (that's us)
who lays the Gross Domestic Product Golden Egg
because it's a no-holds-barred, winner-take-all,
every man on his own for himself free-for-all
until there are no eggs left to take.
It's not 'til they're drowning in hubris and debt
and the system turns around and stings them
that Americans are willing to hear what they already knew -
the scorpion is corporate capitalism.
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