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Posted by El Porton (Guest) - Monday, November 24 2003, 11:31:39 (EST)
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What more does the United States require from the rest of the world...in order to maintain its "enviable lifestyle"? Isn't it enough that we have people raping and pillaging our own continent but they must go and steal from others, who have nowhere near the wealth we do already and kill them if they resist? How much MORE luxury or well being do Americans require...at the expense of the planet and the people on it? And the funny thing is that the average American lives a pretty destitute life with his or her head stuffed with images of winning it big at Vegas, or that other casino in the sky, the Lottery.

Was a time in America, when I was a kid, whites used to laugh at Blacks...dirt poor, living in raggedy apartments, but driving Cadillacs. That was a standard joke. It was a lot easier to to buy a shiny, chrome plated dream than to build a decent house and maintain it. Detroit put out a little palace on wheels and for just a "few" dollars a month you could cruise around in style and maybe people wouldn't know for sure you lived in the ghetto the rest of the time. Back then dope was for Blacks too, or jazz musicians who were honorary Blacks...and in Harlem, Malcolm Little, before he became "X", used to run numbers...the lottery in other words...and it was illegal and the kind of thing only the economic underclass played at because they had no other hope of improving their lives...and to be "alive" in America always meant cash.

These things, plus gangs, were once a Black American phenomenom, born of dead end lives and fragmented families. Now they've become standard issue for the rest of America. If it wasn't for cheap Asian labor most working class Americans and many in the Middle Class wouldn't be able to afford tennis shoes or raquets or camping gear or socks. The salaries received here couldn't buy the goods maufactured by Americans. The odd thing is Americans have to give up their jobs in order to get affordable goods.

Capitalism is a system that will seek to make a profit at all costs eventually...even to cutting its own throat...the best of all worlds. It isn't that Americans are even getting the benefit of the cheap labor. This was just another device cooked up to increase profits...those shirts made in Asia cost us as much at the store as they would have if made in New York...it's just that more of the profit can be skimmed off for the owner if slave labor is used. We have people so filthy rich they've lost touch with reality..people who don't need another million for any practical reason except like sharks they have to keep moving or drown. If you sell your soul for bubble gum...bubble gum becomes life itself and since it is life...you can't get enough of it...not to chew...but to compensate for what you gave up to get it because it never really satisfies..never really takes the place of the life you thought you'd get with all that bubble gum.

Iraqis were killed for greed and profit to a few. Americans didn't need that oil at that price...but maybe the Faustian deal is it's the peice we pay to keep Alaska clean, for now. We were tricked...efficiency was slowly done away with so we'd "need" oil to survive. Put the argument like that and you make people feel as if they're in a war, struggling for their very lives and those who would deny them what they need become their enemies...and you know what you can do with enemies...any damn thing you please. We still get shafted at the pump...but more profit goes into the pockets of the few...that's all it was for...shit they're even IN THE OIL BIDNESS...never made to bones about it. And it doesn't matter to us at all. That's how hooked we are, not on oil, but on this "lifestyle"...one built around collosal indifference to the harm we do all around us as if we had a god-given right to. You'd think we'd have learned from history...you can't get away with this for long. Sooner or later comes a reckoning...and it's always from within.

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