[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Tue Jun 18 09:52:18 UTC 2002


On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, J Henshaw wrote:
> Again,  they are coming here for one reason:  It's still better here.
> Why is it better?

It's better because the rich and powerful have homes here.  Those rich and
powerful don't want to be surrounded by the workers whom they exploit for
their massive wealth.  So a substrate of semi-wealth has been created to
cushion their lives and consciences.  Our whole society is a sort of
buffer to protect the ultra-wealthy from the ultra-poor.

But since SOMEONE has to go without in order for them to have so much, the
brown people of the "third" world work as slaves for a meager living.  
More and more of their resources are "privatized" and handed to the rich
and powerful so that even the water they drink is presented as
"affordable" rather than free, as it once was.

These poor people see this society of abundance and gluttony sprayed
across their opiates^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htelevisions and movie screens (another
tool for sucking the wealth from the poor while also conditioning them to
accept both the exploitation and the gluttony as natural and just) and
some of them think they'd rather be the gluttons than the exploited, so
they go (mostly to find that there are millions of exploited people among
the gluttons, unseen or grossly mispresented on TV and in the movies).

Still others among the poor and exploited of the third world see the
gluttony and exploitation for what they are and try to change the rules,
rather than just trying to change teams.  They are struck down as radicals
and sometimes terrorists.  They are the labor organizers and freedom
fighters.  They are the Sandanistas and the Viet Cong.  They are Cesar
Chavez and Mung Sun-Hyun.

Yet, surrounding all of that, there is the vast majority of humankind
struggling and laboring every day to allow themselves and their families
to survive while providing the products and services upon which you and I
thrive.

> This country used to stand tall and proud for JUSTICE.

Well, that's what they tell us.  I can't exactly find any point in history
when it was true, though.  Oh, there's lots of standing tall and proud,
but it's mostly just boastfulness or hypocrisy.

> Even the obfuscated legacy 200+ years later is superior to their own
> corrupt system.

Their system was corrupted by our system.  Their "leaders" are not the
leaders of the people, but puppets of the American wealthy and powerful.

In a lot of ways, it's like the United States.

> Or perhaps they just love free McDonald's hamburgers.

Whereas at home, they simply raise the cattle and are denied the beef.

J.
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