Saturday, May 1, 2010

Bearing Gifts

They seek a world in which no other nexus remains between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ‘cash payment.’ They seek to drown the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of human tenderness & compassion, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. All personal worth will be nothing but exchange value. All that is solid will melt into air; all that is holy will be profaned. They seek to strip of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. They seek to convert the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into nothing but paid wage laborers. --  Marx
In the face of planet-wide class warfare being waged by the forces of totalitarian corporatism -- forces which seek to exterminate all egalitarian gains made by man (over money) these past few centuries -- we have this:



On the other hand, here in the Land of the Frave and the Home of the Bree:



Mark Ames on the tools.
They can barely walk upright. They should be put in cages and injected with experimental vaccines, not given the right to vote. They're ignorant fucking morons whose brains are just crying out for someone to wash them with the most vicious, spiteful message you can throw at them. You cannot appeal to their better instincts because they have no better instincts. They don't think. They don't analyze. They simply buy, sell, consume, and listen to right-wing talk radio, and a few times a week, they hear some closet case in a powder blue suit and his hair molded tighter than a cat's ass feed them more and more hate and fear in the name of Jesus Christ. They are hooked on fear and hatred, and they cannot stand the thought of helping niggers or outsiders. No one in the world -- not in supposedly-savage Africa, not in the Balkans or Caucuses, not in the sub-continent or the tropics -- is as essentially mean-spirited as Middle Americans. Their stupidity, meanness and materialism is only bolstered, not tempered, by the religion that gives them their so-called "spirituality."
Utopia for the Masters? Maybe not yet, where humanity lives.