Behind the curtain

I’ve been neglectful of this blog the last several months; my entries have been few and far between.

There are two reasons for this. The first is that I have been trying to follow my new policy, do only what you have to do (i.e., I’m a lazy sod). Second, I’ve just been too pissed off about too many things.

I would like to try to encapsulate that second reason.

Since the Great Bust of 2008, I have been astonished by the exhibition of corporate greed in the face of social turmoil. However, I have come to realize that my incredulity is hardly appropriate.

What I finally figured out is that things are exactly as they ought to be—in a capitalist society.

Capitalism is about profit, and American Big Business has been in a profit-taking heyday for nearly 40 years. In that time, we have morphed from citizens into consumers and from wage-earners into borrowers while at the same time “spreading democracy,” with the blood of America’s young adults, into heretofore unavailable markets.

As a result, the American market has been sucked nearly dry while other markets around the world, particularly in Asia and the Indian sub-continent, have become the focus of American manufacturing, marketing and capitalist profit-taking.

That the U.S. government is wholly supportive of these conditions is likewise not remarkable. It is, after all, bought and paid for by corporate campaign contributions.

Vote Republican. Or Democrat—it really doesn’t matter. That’s the benefit of a system designed for only two political parties. Any choice you make is the right one.

So, relax. Everything is at it should be.

What, too sarcastic?

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