if you don’t read joe bageant…

you should.

the system is the problem

“I have to pretend more or less that I think it can be fixed, that some politician can be elected who will turn around 200 years of observable social trajectory. People say, “Well, at least some people are trying to fix the problem from within the system. And I want to scream: THE SYSTEM IS THE PROBLEM! IT’S RIGGED, YOU DUMB FUCKERS!

I wish I could at least call this denial. But if people are incapable of even perceiving the facts because of state conditioning, serving up the facts is useless. Which is why all that powerful truth out there on the net has no real effect. It exists outside our indoctrination’s reference framework. Therefore it does not exist. What exists is the system. The ward on which we all live and secretly fear Nurse Ratchett. But it is still the system and the U.S. is still a ward in which the citizen patients are carefully observed and managed to best result for the corporate state. Best result meaning economical producers and consumers for (allegedly) free market capitalism. And every patient and affinity group has a cherished unreality which allows them to live in denial. For instance, there is the cherished notion among liberal and left leaning Americans that all this is recent, and sprang up simply because George Bush was elected. I don’t think so friends. No one man can establish cruelty in 300 million people in eight years. He can only heighten it by squeezing the people harder, encouraging fear and alienation and coldness of spirit.”

i feel the same way. i try really hard not to talk to people anymore. they don’t really want to hear the truth. some on the left claim that they want to hear the truth- but i think that they recent primaries debacle pitting obama against clinton was clear enough evidence that people don’t want the truth. americans don’t want the truth- they want someone to fight. i am disgusted at myself for getting caught up in all of this nonsense. i am disgusted with myself for allowing myself to think america could perhaps buy itself some time. but i keep forgetting- american is about the people. right? we, the people,- americans are proud of being americans. but i have to agree with george carlin on this one:

at any rate, i have made my personal decision to withhold my vote. it is my form of protest against a system that is corrupt and rigged and essentially useless. i am also not going to blog anymore on any of the presidential candidates- or their running mates. i see no point. i am one one of those people who sincerely hope that this country can eke out a few more years of holding it together- until i pass away or am too old to care if i die. selfish? yep. i didn’t ask for this america. it isn’t the america i was told i lived in. it isn’t even close. the generations before mine fucked me over in a big way- and now, they don’t care. so, i am going to hunker down and enjoy my life as best as i can in spite of the stupidity and ignorance that surrounds me and i am going to learn what i need to do in order to survive. survival in a corporatocracy is a whole new life for me. i was told i was born free.