Rant 1 Current mood: angry
So we have lost all sense of restraint in our national government and the Bushies will have nothing stopping them (or even suggesting they slow down a bit) from dragging this country into the ground. Of course, it can't all be blamed on Bush, Cheney, and the others; a large bit of the blame has to go to the American people. I know it's been said before, but it bears repeating. The American public is so repugnantly lazy and stupid that most people can't even give you a basic description of why the economy is in the shitter and they can't find a job. Hell, most of the richest people in America couldn't tell you that off the top of their heads, but that's because it's never mattered. And the people who are going to be facing starvation in several years, when the dollar collapses and the EU and the Chinese and the Japanese are just trading amongst themselves while the starving poor hunt stray dogs in the ghetto and private security forces shoot people who try to raid ConAgra's storage facilities, and the rich are off on holiday in Finland and Sweden, where it's quite nice thank you ever since global climate change turned London into a seaside town, that's when we'll all look back and wonder why we didn't take the chance when it was offered to us. Why, of the many times we had the chance, did we not dethrone the kings of industry? Why did we continue to pay homage to the cult of wealth when it was obvious that wealth is a lie? Every year for the last 7 years, Mojo's Daily Grind in Austin has kicked off TV Turnoff week with a grand orgy of destruction known as the TV smash. The actual smash was just kind of stupid, but I like the symbolism. Unfortunately, turning off the TV is not enough. I recently learned that until the 19th century in England, Christmas was not a time of giving, it was a time of taking. The poor would raid the houses of the rich and take what they wanted or needed from them, and that was their Christmas. Now the commonwealth nations practice "Boxing Day," in which they box up things for the needy, probably much preferable for people in the mansions than "clean up the shit the peasants left on the floor day." Fuck that noise. The people need to take back from the rich, cause the government isn't doing a good enough job of it. The rich, after all, are the ones who have sent all the good jobs overseas to maximize short-term profits, not realizing that without a relatively wealthy consumer base, there's no one to sell their overpriced shit to. So fuck them. They've sold our future short, and we have to make them pay.