An empire based on unrestrained capitalism, rampant militarism and violence, inequality and conspicuous greed — with no concern for preservation of the common good — is doomed to fail. Long valued as an agent of upward mobility and progress, The American Dream has now turned pathological. It’s become sociopathic. In a sociopathic society, anti-social behavior […]
The main reason so many EU countries have strong economies and a better quality of life than the USA is due to the compatibility between labor unions and corporate management. In America we have an adversarial relationship between the corporate State and blue-collar workers – and what’s left of the unions. CEOs can make three […]
The annual “summer break” is in full swing in Europe. Most Americans have no clue what this entails. The ‘Summer break’ is the extended annual holiday period during July and August when schools close, and much of the workforce takes an extended vacation. Every single worker in the European Union is guaranteed four weeks of […]
The USA: a nation run by corporations, by and for their profits. This is what unshackled capitalism looks like. Money doesn’t talk anymore in America, it screams. Human kindness and empathy probably still exist in the hearts of most normal people who are just struggling to get by in America. But avarice, greed, and grotesque […]
Americans have never been known for their sense of humor. They are way too prudish, unhip; authoritarian. And most are simply too dumb to “get” the joke. Concepts like satire and parody are difficult for the average American to grasp. A lot of people consider anything which is personally offensive to their minimal, childlike tastes […]
Historically, the will to embrace free expression has gone hand in hand with progressive politics. When I was growing up, public figures who tested the boundaries of indecency and free speech were invariably counter-culture heroes. Throughout recorded time, humor, art, music and literature were understood to be inherently uplifting and liberating, because they were True […]
“Go back to bed, America! Here. Watch this, shut up. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free […]
Few Americans realize that it was only due to the policies of America’s last* president that we even had a Voting Rights Act [VRA]. The VRA and other anti-discrimination laws were going to be the cornerstone of John F. Kennedy’s second term starting in January 1965 [which was virtually assured with a 70% approval rating…] On […]
Fundamentalism is a system of beliefs and memes which reinforce each other and dismiss all contradictory thoughts and doubts. It traps and enslaves people of all religions, in different ways. It causes a person to become intolerant of facts that challenge one’s personal belief system, and it makes them distrustful of all other points of […]
From The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Those prophetic words are spoken by Ariel to describe the chaos caused by the shipwrecked passengers in the play. In allegorical terms it signifies that evil, corruption, and cruelty are the result of human actions, rather than some distant, supernatural netherworld. And so it goes. The National Security State […]
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