The Canadian National Newspaper: Global capitalism spawns a corporate disease against the affirmation of human quality-of-living

Global capitalism spawns a corporate disease against the affirmation of human quality-of-living

Overpaid, arrogant, terminally ignorant, malignant scumbags rule the earth thanks to the ascension to the pinnacle of power of corporations; whose global stronghold remains the United States of Manufactured Imbecility.

The world in which we live is so mediated by waste capital, so compromised in terms of quality-of-life, that most people have forgotten there are alternatives. These alternatives take the form of community gardening, they take the form of resistance to institutional culture and to the rampant militarising of everything.

Industrial farming, for example, continues not because it is more productive, but because it has been able, until now, to deliver uniform products in predictable quantities, bred specifically to resist damage during shipment to distant markets. That’s where the profit is, and profit is what counts in the prevailing global economy, no matter what the effect may be on earth, air, and water — or even on hungry people.

Commercial profit operates in the 'g at the expense of human beings; and the pursuit of "profit" at the expense of everything. This is capitalism. But add to this the erosion of quality-of-life.

Life is diminished when you cannot express the creativity that comes naturally from the earth around us. Life is being reduced to robotic wage slavery, and to increasingly stupifying recreations — whether TV or film, or simply shopping. People learn nothing, they strangle their own creativity, and as a replacement they double down on their aggression and sadism.

This is a theme I return to again and again. The toxic inner life of those in the Empire. I know from my own experience what a long struggle it is to try and free oneself from the marketed reality of corporate media and The State Department. I feel more often how almost nothing said on CNN or FOX is to be believed.

The assault on Muslims, and now on the South (Chavez, Morales, Correa, Lugo) are the desperate reactions of a ruling corporate class that must, even in their small rodent brains, see the writing on the wall. The American Empire seeks to avoid its total collapse, by relying on exploitative predation for "economic growth". This in turn, requires the pursuit of a perpetuated military expansionist agenda to steal and control the 'resources' of peoples internationally, in the name of the pursuit of "national security".

Fish are dying, and U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, who is inspired by Eugenics -- that also inspired Hitler's Nazi Germany -- kills any moves to protect endangered whales. Fuck’em, and I wish I could shoot ‘em all too, thinks Dick. The demonizing of the rational leaders of the world; Castro being the best example, is ratcheted up — but the Empire has little with which to counter the rationality of a Chavez or Castro.

The sock puppet theatre of public discourse is more rancid and threadbare; Bill Kristol or General Whateverthefuckever, or Charles Gibson, (Peter Mansbridge, Steve Paikin, or Lloyd Robertson in Canada) or Oprah, or Krauthammer or Hannity; none of them look well actually… and all of them seem to barely keep a hold on things. The culture of punishment cannot go much further — the culture of resentment and sadism and amnesia. It’s turning brown and wilting before our eyes. Free Tibet, send marines to Darfur, protect Israel from (fill in whoever you want) and let’s fucking well bomb Iran. Fuck ‘em, bomb ‘em. Nuke ‘em maybe. Yeah, that’s the ticket... let’s nuke those lousy towelheaded cocksuckers. And let’s remember we are a force for good.

From Belgrade to Baghdad to, probably, Tehran, the Empire spreads death and destruction. It’s important to start in local and small ways; with a food activism and with a refusal to engage any longer with a corporate sculpted reality.

I hope Barack Obama wins — but I know anyone who is even considering Joe Biden as a running mate isn’t going to really do much of anything. He can’t. The show goes on. Two billion plus each day for defence, and zero for health care. Human quality-of-living is being sabotaged by an apparent 'death cult', which pursues a greed-driven agenda of waste capital

John Steppling is co-editor of VOXPOP, our special blog dedicated to theatre, cinema, culture and politics. His sparring partner is co-editor Guy Zimmerman. Original source, Best Cyrano: LINK.

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