wednesday night - thursday morning RANT

This is not a conspiracy theory. Nobody planned this system out. It's just the way it works:

The government has come completely loose from the moorings of the Constitution. That piece of paper no longer holds any meaning to these media whores and corporate shills who have infested Washington (for decades and decades). This administration is exactly like the last, which was exactly like the one that it replaced. The trappings and accents and uniforms (D) or (R) may have changed, but the real people in charge have stayed the same the entire time. President Obama has gone back on just about everything he promised (gasp!) and he's doing the same thing Bush was doing, only he's more articulate when he makes excuses for doing those same things. He's even trying to retroactively cripple the Freedom of Information Act, which puts him in the same league as Bush, Cheney and the rest of those ass-clowns. Clinton deregulated the shit out of everything and Greenspan was his High Priest of Deregulation. Bush took us to war for no reason whatsoever and screwed things up even more. Obama is going to keep things exactly the way it has always been, same as it ever was.

I know it has been this way since the ink was dry on the Constitution, but it seems that in the past the politicians at least pretended to follow the rules (then again, maybe I'm nostalgic, and things have always been as fucked up as they are now). Now they're just making shit up whenever and they know no one is paying attention, and if anyone does raise a stink they just have them Tasered and they sic the law on the troublemakers.

As we buy more complicated and entertaining phones and laptops and televisions, and as we get more channels of entertainment, we will keep going to our jobs and filling our gas tanks and pretending that everything is okay. We close our eyes as our government runs roughshod over every right we thought we had, but probably only were allowed to think we had because it kept us quiet. But it is not okay. This system is unsustainable.

What am I going to do about it? Nothing. I have bills to pay. So I'll keep working and paying bills and pretty soon I'll be too old to care anymore. I'm already there really.

Some of us are kept as pets by the companies that use us to perform certain functions. We are given enough money to keep us in our homes, our kennels. We are kept in enough debt to keep us working. We are programmed by televisions to live beyond our means. We are shown standards of living that we are convinced we must have at any cost. We are given enough money to entertain ourselves between work shifts, and to buy food. We are given enough money to buy a vehicle to get back and forth between our cubicles and our homes. We are asked to work more hours for the same pay, to stay by our phones, to be always available. We are able to "log in from home", we are given beepers. Even on vacation, we are not allowed to disconnect. We are part of the Hive Mind. We will be assimilated.

We watch processed entertainment made for the lowest common denominator. It feeds our most basic fears and titillations.

We are told that there are two parties to choose from, and we argue with those who choose Brand B when we have chosen Brand A. But we don't realize both "Brands" of political ideas are really the same Brand. They both support a system that keeps us in the cycle I just described above. The politicians (actors) who make up the two "parties" are all bought and controlled by the same group of powerful companies and interests that make damn sure we keep consuming their products and buying into their ideas.

Both "Brands" of politicians are willing to put cameras everywhere, tap our phones, read our email, search our homes without warrant, take away our rights and pass laws that restricts the right to assemble and protest.

And we are told that other states are the totalitarian states. We are told that we are free.

And we are free. Really. Never mind, just go about your business. Nothing to see here.