From: "Alliekatt" <alleykatzen@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2003
Spent some time rant-blathering to WordPerfect last
night because I couldn't
sleep.
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Americans who did not vote for George Bush and are aware
of the toxicity of
our culture, currently have no clear or accepted voice.
Our resolve is
dissolved easily by a large number of distractions ingeniusly
manufactured
by our toxic culture.
Americans with the understanding that our disposable
culture is something
toxic, most often only understand that it is toxic to
them personally,
without considering that it's the same to the rest of
the world.
This is due to our media depicting the rest of the world
as a bunch of
shoeless morons living in mud huts and fleeing floods
with baskets of
kittens on their heads, or students throwing molotov
cocktails in obscure
Asian locations.
This is due to a lack of exposure to the rest of the
world, by being
isolated and brainwashed by media, that shows the rest
of the world as
incapable children.
Most Americans are grindingly, pathetically provincial
and cling desperately
to ideology that they believe has to work in loud opposition
to something,
anything.
As a matter of fact, many Americans believe that if
you aren't loud and
domineering, nobody will pay attention to you and someone
will eventually
mosey over and take everything you have without your
say in the matter.
This is because, in effect, the government, or someone
with enough money,
CAN do this while everyone turns a blind eye and keeps
their nose to the
ground. This is why they turn to blaming other socioeconomic,
religious,
and racial groups for their ills, instead of the big
faceless money, as a
coping
mechanism that keeps the heat off the real enemies and
the problems within
understanding. This is why they have guns and are afraid
of their
neighbors.
Most Americans are used to a massive amount of market
competition in the act
of selling Widget A. Therefore they market the hell
out of Widget A until
you are psychically exhausted and spiritually drained
by a bombardment of
media advertising, and by the time you get to the retail
outlet that sells
Widget A at the lowest advertised price, brainwashed
into believing that you
desperately need this item, you get to a minimum wage
salesperson who is
required to spend massive amounts of time following
you around with toilet
paper to wipe your arse, if only you would buy Widget
A. This is why,
overseas, Americans are huffed when they demand exclusive
attention and
service for a prolonged period of time, and are denied,
and are offended
when a salesperson refuses to have the life sucked out
of them by Americans
who think it's a massive philanthropic favor to buy
the item from them.
Whereas, everyone else goes to buy Widget A from the
closest convenience
when they actually feel that they need one.
Most Americans have to pay for all their medical insurance
and expenses. As
getting work requires education, they have to get huge
government loans to
go to college, and because of this, by the time they
are 21 the culture and
government has made sure that they are in massive debt
in the tens of
thousands. This effectively prevents Americans from
immigrating anywhere,
and also why the smart ones are often grim and shy while
on holiday outside
of their own country, unless they are hawing and yelling
amongst their own.
They know they're fucked. This is why they're very
willing to convince
themselves that they're #1 and that the rest of the
world is out to get
them. Most Americans who understand their own quandary
are the real
patriots, however, by the time they understand this,
they hole up in the
countryside, leave, or file Chapter 11 and check into
the funny farm because
it's too late to imagine having a zero balance anywhere.
And this is precisely why Americans are arseholes.
The only way to work to stop this chokehold of our own
culture is to learn
as much about the world as possible, criticize advertising,
banish
mediocrity, pursue excellence enough to go to college
free or else pursue
self-education, learn to distinguish need from desire,
satisfy the root of
desire instead of its result, (meaning pursuit of deeper
desire ie SLACK),
learn how to communicate, learn how to satisfy myself,
and satisfy others
without letting them think for me, and to see behind
the veil of
presentation and desire to the agenda that bares itself
behind every set of
eyes, and then reach further into that agenda to the
root of desire, yank it
out, clean it off, shine it up, throw out the rest of
the garbage, hand it
back to them and go about my business.
But I really don't have the sort of time or energy to
spend on kicking
self-made morons awake. Unless this were a pamphlet
or something. Pass the
fropstick.
Alliekatt
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From: bobdiddley@aol.com (Bobdiddley)
Alliekat essayed:
Thanks for the spew - shordurpersav of the day - maybe
the week - we'll see.
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