Feb 2024: New Slaves for the New Global Economy part 2: Slaves vs. Automatons
New Slaves for the New Global Economy
Part 2. Slaves’
vs Automatons
“Slave labor anywhere threatens
real jobs everywhere.” And when the idea of profit is its own justification,
watch out! Rulers tend to chase vast potential wealth and while most people are
willing to pay something to end slavery few are willing to make the inevitable
great sacrifice: Higher market prices. Unlike early slaves (a piece of
expensive property needing to be maintained and accommodated) Automatons are
cost effective; relatively cheap, abundant, and easily replaceable
commodities. Although they differ in the extent of violence and intimidation
used, they both share one key objective; the slave must be broken; divided, conquered,
and unleashed within a socially alienating arena where “dog eats dog.” Trust
and loyalty must be shifted from slave to owner, from employee to employer.
According to Willie Lynches manifesto (The Making of a Slave –James
River, Virginia, 1712), this is best accomplished by maintaining an atmosphere
of fear, distrust, and envy. Further, slaves need to be selected, trained,
and assigned (another cog in the economic wheel), based on individual
levels of weakness, gullibility, and deprivation. Is it any different today?
It’s worse! It’s insidious (devious, sinister, and deceptive). Alas! The cloak
and dagger of the banking system: Credit and Debit. Thus enters the unsatiable need
for consumerism, hedonism, and sex. Are you free to spend and party or simply
need temporary escapes from the truth: You just another automaton, another
disposable cog in the economic wheel. How’s that feel?
But today’s slavery can’t be
limited to race, color, or creed/religion. The new slave is faceless,
temporary, highly profitable, legally concealed and, by way of
competition, completely ruthless. They are unleashed like
sharks and Piranhas to prey upon each other; like termites in the shadows feasting
on the wooden foundations of the currently decaying social order. Thus, comes
the historically eventual fall of empires. Is America next?
Seemingly always underestimated
is the amount of pressure the poor and middle class can take. But when the
gluttony from the top encroaches on what little is left for the bottom feeders
– watch out. Anarchy and revolution can rise like smoke and where there is
smoke there is fire; and where there is fire, death and destruction follows.
But America has indeed learned the lessons of history. To control the
level of inherent resistance and revolt understand there will always be a need
for the poor and suffering. Using unemployment and social service benefits (LIKE
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND DISABILITY) to maintain socio-economic stability they,
the poor lower middle class, are important surplus bodies, automatons to
accommodate, tolerate and activate whenever the current labor force steps out
of line. How’s that feel? Thus enters the booming field of mental health ... LETS
MEDICATE!
Almost every morning you rise like
a horse to the bell at the staring gate of the global economic racetrack.
Sometimes you have time for breakfast or a workout, but eventually you must put
on your appropriate monkey suit and wear the mask of “Yassa Master”
I’ll get right to it. You get the kids off to school or the babysitter. You
hop into your means of transportation and battle your way thru traffic
congestion. You get to your destination and another bell goes off; you
diligently perform your task with some indifference. You pull your shift and
the bell rings: Free time; time to MEDICATE; blow off some steam and pay the
tab. Eventually, last bell; time to go home, play master of the house, eat,
go to bed and wait for that next morning bell to ring. We’ll be discussing the effects
of all these bells in our next issue. Meanwhile
ask yourself: Do you work to live or do you live to work … but
remember! When the bell rings … OBEY!
Don’t Belong
I don’t belong! I don’t want to belong
I don’t want! To here – to this – adjust
– its’ wrong
This here now place without grass or
trees
Cept in parks scattered here and there to
simulate and tease
I cant find pace or space to ease my mind
from the constant noise
The constant flow of cars, trucks and
buses that never cease to pass
The constant flow of people rushing,
screaming & fighting, a people dis-eased - more
A Force-fed congestion deep within -
outpoured upon each other – a people in discord
I’m void! Quiet mornings and peaceful
nights
Can’t hear the wind flowing through the
trees or the chirping birds therein
There’s is no escape, there is no
appease, there’s not even a please
But Please! I need to ease or cease
I’m haunted onto disgust
By memories I can’t seem to shake
Of yards, pools and courts not public but
mine to chose, who to invite or loose,
Of spacious schools for learn not burn
and youth run stores well kept
Cops I rarely saw – firemen I rarely
heard
Churches that never begged – poor that
new their place
Homes! Where to be at one I need not far
go
Space! Where for everything - found - its
own special place
And yet now – crowds – in, out and all
around
Surrounding, threatening, bargaining
Paying to have me – Paying to get rid of
me
Me! Another piece of merchandise online –
I must decide
To live or die – and – on what side
To the outside, even mom and dad – a lie
No time to sob or regret – no time to
forget
Caus me online – to live or die – I must
decide
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