Is This Real? Part Two

Empty People Living Empty Lives, Ruled by Judas Goats

American patriotism, much else in the West, has been demonized. What we could call Wokeism might have started out a benevolent ideology, again like much else, has been weaponized, used to deracinate and socially atomize society and individuals in it, and further to act as a distraction to the growing poverty, massive corruption, and multiple crises of competence in almost everything.

People often talk about the left or the right, liberalism, conservatism, leftism, capitalism, even communism as The Enemy or The Evil, when really, it is more about relatively small groups of people, most often the wealthy and those who opportunistically serve them, destroying and consuming our collective Western Civilization and by extension, the rest of the Earth for profit and ego gratification (entertainment?). It is easy to oversimplify things, but ultimately, this is what feels most true to me. Our entire world is a gigantic abattoir run by a class of Judas goats, who often do not realize that they are such goats.

Dealing with life successfully means looking at both yourself and reality as it truly is with the understanding that nobody truly knows what is going on.

I think most people do not do this well, if at all, but current American society is particularly good at stopping this process; manipulating others either in advertising or in propaganda is one of the best things the American Empire is good at, but historically, the empire always comes home with the elites using the tools it developed for creating and protecting it using on the homeland’s citizens, not just on the colonies. First our government, then our corporations, and now as individuals. We have become so good at this that we cannot see ourselves while we are doing it.

To be fair, not everyone, not even a majority, is master bullshitter, but the patterns of thoughts and the habitual actions of the grifter, those Judas goats, infects just everyone at some level, whether he wants it to or not. The con-artist, the drunk, the user, and the abuser, all have similar tools, which they use on everyone including themselves. It has become a society-wide situation of “look at what you made me do to you” or “the beatings will continue until moral improves.” However, what is worse for our collective selves is the destruction of their realness. The created, perhaps better said imposed, inability to be functioning individuals who are part of a human community.

Moreover, in our Neoliberal Age, money, not humanity is what counts especially when all that make up both a functioning person, and the community most everyone needs to have to be functional, have been deracinated, atomized, and monetized. Being an adult is now equated with the ability to make money, even if to make enough moeny to feed, cloth, and house oneself often means working oneself to literal death after cutting oneself from family and friends in order to find the to work oneself to death. People often leave their families, friends, and community, frequently acquire undischargable college debt, and empty bullshit office jobs or other brutal, humiliating, life shorting work. A life so shorn of human connection that only money, not human connection is there for you. A lifetime of wage slavery, stripped of all that makes one human, of live worth living, is what most of us are facing. There is nothing worth living for, nothing real, not family, friendships, community, religion, even business. It’s all a game and a grift, there to be monetized, exploited, and disposed of when used up. Moreover, all the social capital, knowledge, skills, organizations of any kind both public and private, large and small have been or are in the process of being stripped of value. Just look at the Democratic Party¹, Boeing², Intel³, the American Red Cross⁴, most charities⁵, many churches⁶, hospitals⁷, FEMA⁸, the military⁹, or government at all levels¹⁰ especially the regulatory agencies¹¹, which being used to steal more wealth, not to actually do what they were created to, which is why they are all increasing unable to do what they used to be able to do.

The American Dream is now become the American Nightmare. A life living in Hell before dying a wasted life for many, many Americans. But if you do not “live” this life, you are deemed a slacker and if someone is not of the Faith, not sufficiently pure, you are encouraged to ostracize them. Although, looking at the soullessness of far too many “successful” Americans (and Europeans), it still might be preferable to achieving what counts as success nowadays. Personally, my life may, or may not, be a waste or a tragedy, it is not a monument to evil as too many of our elites seem to have done to their lives.

Is it strange then that despair, rage, addiction, insanity, and death is rampaging through our nation?

1. The goal or job is not to win elections, forget about governing, but to get those bribes donations and sinecures.

2. CEO pay and Goosing up stock prices for those stock buybacks.

3. Likewise.

4. Donations.

5. Donations.

6. Donations. The whole “Prosperity Gospel” grift

7. Administrative salaries and stock buybacks. Not to mention the Romneycare, aka Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act or the ACA was used to block MEDICARE for all, and to keep the insurance industry happy.

8. Sinecures, pro forma rule following, and not saving lives.

9. Wars for profit. Bribes and sinecures for government officials and members of Congress. Then there is the F-35.

10. Law enforcement or serving the community is often not the goal or function of local policing. Using civil asset forfeiture, which fund the police agencies and their governments, American police steal more from the American nation than actual crooks.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/08/18/civil-asset-forfeiture-explained/74802279007/

11. Keep the industry happy and get a sinecure working in the industry you “regulated” when you retire.