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| AnotherWay83 |
very long but def. worth a read!!
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/in...d=115&Itemid=33
some quick excerpts:
Introductory note: A recent cross-continental train ride brought forth the thoughts in this essay. I observed and heard workers on and off the rails, and saw settlements and landscapes not quite humming with health, conviviality and equality. I seemed closer to sensing what it is a worker today has really gotten into. Individual overparticipation in false values is mostly a victim's unnecessary plight. I try to expose the lie of the American Dream. Detailed sections include "Energy slaves and the housing bubble = 'wealth'" and "Dealing with the job problem."
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We are conditioned to believe we are lucky to have a job. The belief is understandable as a mistaken and tragic notion, if we consider we are generally raised in ignorance regarding, for example, infinite and universal human potential that is wasted. Society's rulers have their own agendas that aren't necessarily in your or the average person's interest.
There is also major brainwashing for the idea that industrialized, technological society has conquered ignorance. While much information (and misinformation) is well circulated, ignorance of the invasive reach of the dominant culture only grows as we continue to be submerged by materialism, commercial propaganda and manufactured fear. We are losing daily much critical wisdom and information from non-mainstream holdouts, mainly elders whose traditions include wisdom and skills for community self-sufficiency.
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Freedom and rights are greatly diminished compared to conditions long ago. It's only getting worse, as the population explosion and greed continue unabated without regard to our children's future. Freedom of the primitive and traditional kind is almost nonexistent where the dominant culture invaded and grew. Yet, to characterize today's industrialized world as a "slave culture," and our cities "work camps," sounds outlandish. We have been told constantly that there has been amazing technological progress, and that there are pleasant, creative and lucrative paths that lead to "freedom" from want and from violation of privacy. It's true one can obtain almost unlimited material things and become safely isolated, but not without working hard and long -- one's whole life -- while remaining limited, excluded or confined.
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Religion and military subculture, as well as academia and corporate subculture, are quite useful for trying to control the mass of ignorant slaves who want to believe they are free. When these institutions do not function to control a given individual, there remain the powerful institutions of prison and/or medical-psychiatric tyranny. One way to skirt unpleasantness by oneself is the dead end of addictions that can be kept just short of ruinous.
Work as liberation is a clever sham. Co-opting women's lib (now known as feminism), capitalists were only too happy to have an expanding work force to hold down wages. High levels of immigration mandated by Congress are similarly intended to dilute collective bargaining, along with keeping the numbers of consumers ever growing for buying corporate products. And the women entering the job market, especially in the 1970s, onward found they soon lost the option of staying home with their children: bills had to be paid, and a household with only one worker found it hard to compete with over-working households and cover the rent or mortgage, the kids' college costs, rising food prices, etc.
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| Q5echo |
I used to ride a bike when i lived in Hawaii. great weather year round but it was soooooo f**king HOT!
Texas is far worse.
cool site. irreverently communist, but i commend their effort. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
but i commend their effort. |
really? see, i used to be a marxist (of sorts) and those highlighted passages just made me roll my eyes and think what a wanker i used to be.
and stuff like this
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High levels of immigration mandated by Congress are similarly intended to dilute collective bargaining |
just total and utter nonsense. what kind of communists are they anyway? communists dont recognise national borders. we're all workers ffs.
wankers. |
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| Q5echo |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
really? |
well kinda, yeah. they're not harming anyone. they want people to be aware, whether you and i agree with them or not and i don't want to take anything away from that. i don't know maybe i'm just being generous tonite.
after thr communist snark i wanted to be polite.
did you notice they have a forum there? albeit a very lonely forum from the looks of it. |
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