In a capitalist democracy, such as the United States, big business is controlled by what has been called the Power Elite. This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country's working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of Winston Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by so few. We are far indeed from Jefferson's ideal of a genuinely free society composed of a hierarchy of self-governing units -- "the elementary republics of the wards, the county republics, the State republics and the Republic of the Union, forming a gradation of authorities."
But societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life. Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so-called pleasure.
The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish the illusion of individuality, but in fact they have been to a great extent deindividualized! Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. But uniformity and freedom are incompatible. Uniformity and mental health are incompatible too. Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed.
The current administration can be seen as a pinnacle of achievement in the eyes of our elder federalist bankers pulling the strings of sock-puppets like Obama and Bush; the evil, power-hungry bastards whose number one desire is to gain as much power and control over the individual as they can see the current administration as a crowning touch in the process of stripping us of whatever freedoms we have left as human beings on this planet....don't try to talk to me about "democracy." Democracy has been ASLEEP in this country for a long time now. It's just that with the past two administrations it's really beginning to show with such glaring ferocity that we can no longer ignore it. It is in our faces everyday, in one way or another.
It shows all the time. Just take a look around! It shows in the idiot sitting next to you mindlessly jabbering away on a cell phone with complete disregard for your peace of mind, as if they are all that matter in this world!! God I hate people like this, the fat pieces of shit!!! The bullshit trickles down to the level of the lowest life-forms. I hate the average asshole on the street sometimes, but it isn't hate with no reason, it's a RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION against ignorant people (like YOU, maybe) in this world who we are forced to co-exist with, everyday CRETINS infused with the power-hungry mentality (monkey-see, monkey do) who could give a shit for the peace of mind or well-being of their fellow man....In other words, GET OFF OF YOUR STUPID DAMN CELL PHONE OR GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, YOU ANNOYING SACK OF SHIT!!! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WANT TO HEAR YOUR STUPID CONVERSATION??!?!?!
Sorry, I'm getting a bit sidetracked, but this IS a good enough example of what we are talking about here, in a way. (Plus, it gives me a chance to rant at your expense.) An individual's god-given right to a little privacy doesn't seem to matter to SOME PEOPLE, does it? :flame: ::puke::
**** WITH BURNING HATE ****
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