The Neo-Hippies Are Working For You

We pause in our examination of the genders to address current events.

We hear in the corporate media, as it features the Congressional and other mouthpieces for the corporatocracy and the dismissive upper class, talk about how “these mobs occupying Wall Street and other places” are “scaring the job creators” (who have been, where the last 10 years?) and trying to start “class warfare.”

Wrong. Class warfare has already started. The Lower (Formerly, Working) Class has already been mostly dominated and subdued. Here’s news for you Middle-Class America: The upper class and the most powerful corporations* have launched war on you. Their goal is to make you distracted, confused, powerless serfs and slaves.

It started with subtle, dulling, sedative, gradual, disguised economic gassing of first the lower classes, then the middle class. Then the assaults began.

Some of those woke up when the wounds became so deep it brought them out of their Matrix’d-like induced illusions.

These awakened are called “radicals,” or “aimless, generality-spouting, socialist fools,” so that the mostly still half-asleep will not be tempted to join them. Americans have traditionally stood pat on what appears to be the middle ground, so that they could go back to their apolitical and ahistorical lives. But those lives seem less and less possible, and less and less realistic, more a shared illusion and shared delusion.

The hour is late, the specifics desired either unformulated or unagreed upon. A marked lack of political sophistication, a lack of political science/government/economics acumen, combined with willful ignorance of history, have come back in droves of ghostings to haunt the awakening. Time, weather, and the active forces of corporate and upper class opposition can do much to dissipate this so far feeble gnat and its minor bothering of the real power structure. But perhaps the gnats can breed fast enough to be felt. As Hedges would say (see P&H), the illusions, and the distractions of the spectacle culture, might keep the crowds from duplicating what has transpired elsewhere—or what transpired in the dissatisfied’s own history of a quarter-millenia ago...

That may be the tragedy you don’t recover from, Middle America.

Silence and passivity are our enemies. Sheer logic won’t do, Middle Class America; you better get mad. The slave train is pulling from the station. Stop it, change it, dismantle it—or you’ll be on it.

*There are dissenters from this among both the upper class and among corporations. They are, unfortunately, the minority. Just like there were the good and caring minority among the aristocracy and other rich before the French Revolution, there are the good and caring now. And just like then, they are unwilling, or, more the case, unable (given the intractability and arrogant separation of their fellows) to persuade their group to chart a less selfish course.