How Many People see?

[Newest Reality]

Where we are now, as a people?

The corporations own the media and present to us what they will by television, movies, and print. They are in league with each other. They own most of the means that provide us with our goods and services from cars to food and finances. The wealthy families who hide behind the corporate veil, (which now serves the same purpose and function as Royalty) decide and control the functions that we rely on while they present an illusion of choice and representation.

We either buy into that illusion, or we observe it and, while standing beyond it, we criticize and abhor its ultimate intents and purpose. Some see how easy it is to present a myriad of divisive issues and exciting, but empty, distractions in order to steer the destiny of our people and decide the outcome of this grand adventure.

It is so very easy to be lost in the details and the grand facade. Our lives are so very diverse and complex that is no wonder that a master of manipulation could easily dissuade us from what is absolutely essential to our survival in order to have a thrill, a chill, or a chance at something amazing. Yet, we have entered into a most crucial and serious game that is coming down to ultimate outcomes that will have an impact on the future for both ourselves and our children, etc.

How do we set our priorities here? We can set them as we are told, which is about a corporately-controlled system that labels us as consumers who exist to work, watch and sleep, or we can get back to the fact that we are organic, living entities who have a right to be on this planet and an obligation to leave something behind us that is survivable for all species and the biosphere that provided us with what we are now existing in.

We are in so many crises now that, no matter what distractions and bullshit the Status Quo throws at as in the game they are playing, it behooves us all to come together and consider just how important our mutual consensus about what matters into perpetuity trumps whatever we are being dealt in the process we find ourselves, (and our fellows) in. Those who have the time or the circumstance to focus on the trivial are welcome to do so, but consider the matter of our mutual crises and maybe you move the focus to where it really belongs in dire and critical times like these.

This is not the world that was pulled over your eyes, and understanding that, no matter how good you might have it right now, is going to prove to be more beneficial to not only yourself, but those who are falling like rotten trees all around you, right now. Just look and maybe it will dawn on you just how important each of us is in letting go of denial in order to fully embrace the courage that comes from knowing where you are and why you are there.

[Odin2005]

1. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

[Aerows]

8. Never heard it put more succinctly,

nor better. You are absolutely right, and you have to fight through that to understand where you stand on the other side of that anger and sadness.

[defendandprotect]

2. kr -- Was Global Warming in there somewhere???

[fairElizabeth]

3. no subject

I am surrounded by the intentional numb,deliberately
deaf,belligerently blind. I still believe that A UNITED PEOPLE
can stop this blatant corruption of our current elected
officials! How in the hell do I wake up all my apathetic
neighbors who only shrug their shoulders in defeat or insist
they can do nothing? Am I they crazy one? I live in the
capitol of CA where you'd think people would be screaming!

[99th_Monkey]

4. We collectively need all that fire we can get. Thank you for your passion.

and welcome to DU :hi:

[fairElizabeth]

6. I been reading this site for awhile now and was hoping to

get a more focused direction to go and express my complete outrage at the life we are forced to suffer through. I am 42,single mom of 4, been at the same job for ten years. No medical. No retirement. I don't own a home and can barely afford my car payments. I am a Sac State grad so I'm not stupid. I am, like most Americans, willing to work hard and earn all I have. I take pride on not being on welfare. For me to pay 1/3 of my monthly income to support the thieves we elected in a lavish lifestyle ia asinine!! What do I tell my kids? Support the government???? I say we need to ACT!Why aren't people trying to get these crooks out?

[99th_Monkey]

10. Clearly, we're long overdue for a new Social Contract.

between the wealthy and the rest of us, something we can all live with,
a balanced Golden Mean that fosters self-respect & dignity for all.

I think the USA needs one of these, instead of a violent revolution,
every 75 years or so, or maybe even more frequently would be better.

The most recent Social Contract moment happened on FDR's watch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

Just between you and me, this means hardcore "gov't" enforcement of
actual real-life cooperation, using win/win calculations; not to be
confused with the kind of heartless capitulation and completely selling
out to the highest bidder that passes for "public business" in DC these
daze.

[Zorra]

9. Welcome to DU, fair Elizabeth...

:hi:

[craigmatic]

5. I think we're entering the beginning of the end for the right. The younger generation is clearly

more liberal than the boomers and xers. It might take a while but people are eventually going to overturn the system as it is and make it more fair.

[Hannah Bell]

14. they said the same of the boomers. the younger generation is "liberal" socially.

will they be "liberal" economically when it comes time to settle down, stick to a job, raise a family?

i still remember how weird it felt to watch my friends turn into their parents.

especially the child of an upper middle class lawyer who used to joke about how much unnecessary stuff her folks had. became an even more upper middle class lawyer, "working for the poor" at the highest levels. had even more stuff. went to visit & it was the first time i saw a home computer or one of those baby yachts people drag behind their bicycles, garage full of outdoor equipment, van for the kiddies, the whole 229 yards.

[L0oniX]

7. Fascism is coming soon.

[inna]

11. things are starting to unravel; at least it's going to be 'interesting'.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. One.

[Hannah Bell]

13. besides which:

1. the amount of money people make is generally dictated by their closeness to money or the interests of money. e.g. all those computer whizzes who thought they were being paid well for their "skill set" in the 80s & 90s when the digital revolution was underway found out they weren't worth as much once the infrastructure for the digital order was in place.

2. working in most jobs may earn you a living, but the infrastructure, products, systems, mental constructs etc you are creating & illusions you willingly or unwillingly are supporting are adding more to the power of the rulers than you & your colleagues are getting.

"building our own prison" we could say.