It's Getting Better? 5 - 2014
The Sharecropper Society
The best analogy is: The feudal lords have separated and conquered the masses by opiating them with excess "funny" money, technological contrivances and entertaining distractions.
They have created the illusion of wealth and prosperity through "ownership", appeasing the serfs by lending them money to "buy" plots of land to sharecrop.
In Q2 2014, the share of Americans who own their homes was 64.7% down from 64.8% in Q1. The rate matched the level in the Q2 1995, a nineteen year low.
Real estate for ransom.... Many serfs toiled hard and paid off their sharecropping field (bank mortgage), but now have to borrow to pay the property taxes and make ends meet. Remember baby ducks, you don't own your home and never will.
And while the serf's' are asleep at the wheel, the money shufflers rob them blind, financially, civically, and spiritually. Ask them how they feel about inflation, debauchery and asset bubbles.
So, how does debtors prison feel sharecropper? A bit chaffed? Need some KY? Order it online, then get back to your plow's and keep chanting the mantra, its just getting better all the time.
Consolidation of Chains
In the last 40 years, we have seen the advent and assault of the big box chains, Costco, Wal Mart, Kmart, Lowes, Home Depot, Staples, Subway, McDonalds, Taco Bell etc.
The small local non-chain business and farm is a thing of the past. ADM and Conagra have consolidated their power base world wide through coercive "sanitary" and "health concern" legislation (i.e. mad cow).
The retail, pharmaceutical and food distribution chains are locked down tight and hermetically sealed. Overnight crises can easily be manufactured through the corporate controlled media.
Oil field worker strike in Nigeria, insurgent militia or juntas in Central and South America, Middle Eastern terrorist splinter Gihad's, all are poised to precipitate price shocks at every corner.
The overall distribution chain has become interdependent on a global basis. Oranges from Brazil, beef from Argentina, grain from Canada, oil from the Middle East, replacement parts from China, etc.
In many parts of this country it is next to impossible to find: locally produced milk, meat, fruit or vegetables, replacement parts for a Chinese manufactured item, or someone who knows how to manage water or run a farm, amongst other things.
Local capability, capacity and expertise no longer exist in a multitude of disciplines. Globalization is a wonderful thing, isn't it? Ever watch The Jay Walk All Stars on the Tonight Show?
We have a couple of generations that can't tell you what the Bill of Rights is, let alone, where Milk comes from or how its processed.
The real question is what happens at the local level when the distribution chain has outages, or worse yet, completely breaks down? Are we just lost in Suburbia?
Now hush, hush, my Sweet Charlotte, lets not go off on a tangent. That's a nightmare, er, I mean, bedtime story for another bloggin day.
The Dirty Fucking Hippies - Were Right!
If you didn't watch the above video, put it in reverse, you REALLY should.... it's absolutely spot on.
There is no question that our standard of living is better than the early 20th century. Ask yourself these questions and make an assessment on the last 49 years.
Aside from the obvious convenience and health benefits of technological advances, in the last 49 years, is the standard of living really getting better?
Depending on where in the food chain you are observing from, the answer could subjectively be yes or no. From a simple empirical standpoint of CPI dollars, it would seem not.
Have we compromised the future in allowing ourselves to become homogenized hamsters through the blind acceptance of the happy "habitrail" of life so "graciously" provided for us by the privileged few? Aka "The Rat Race".
Have we ultimately sold our souls for technological convenience? Or to "chase the bag"?
Have we been lulled to sleep while the judiciary has run amok eroding our civil rights as guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and Constitution?
Have we taken our priviledge and fortune for granted? And in the process forgotten the reasons why this country was founded? (To escape religious persecution and unfair taxation without representation. Sounds like under both party administrations, we have come full circle.)
Have we no regard for the effort of those who died and sacrificed to put us where we are today, just so we can give it all away on a silver platter?
Is our hedonistic and apathetic nature which appeals to gluttony, avarice and sloth, making us the architects of our own demise?
Things to ponder, tonight in the Naybob Zone.
Overhauled & Updated from 05/13/2005 for 2014.
It's Getting Better? 1 - 2014
It's Getting Better? 2 - 2014
It's Getting Better? 3 - 2014
It's Getting Better? 4 - 2014
It's Getting Better? 5- 2014
The best analogy is: The feudal lords have separated and conquered the masses by opiating them with excess "funny" money, technological contrivances and entertaining distractions.
They have created the illusion of wealth and prosperity through "ownership", appeasing the serfs by lending them money to "buy" plots of land to sharecrop.
In Q2 2014, the share of Americans who own their homes was 64.7% down from 64.8% in Q1. The rate matched the level in the Q2 1995, a nineteen year low.
Real estate for ransom.... Many serfs toiled hard and paid off their sharecropping field (bank mortgage), but now have to borrow to pay the property taxes and make ends meet. Remember baby ducks, you don't own your home and never will.
And while the serf's' are asleep at the wheel, the money shufflers rob them blind, financially, civically, and spiritually. Ask them how they feel about inflation, debauchery and asset bubbles.
So, how does debtors prison feel sharecropper? A bit chaffed? Need some KY? Order it online, then get back to your plow's and keep chanting the mantra, its just getting better all the time.
Consolidation of Chains
In the last 40 years, we have seen the advent and assault of the big box chains, Costco, Wal Mart, Kmart, Lowes, Home Depot, Staples, Subway, McDonalds, Taco Bell etc.
The small local non-chain business and farm is a thing of the past. ADM and Conagra have consolidated their power base world wide through coercive "sanitary" and "health concern" legislation (i.e. mad cow).
The retail, pharmaceutical and food distribution chains are locked down tight and hermetically sealed. Overnight crises can easily be manufactured through the corporate controlled media.
Oil field worker strike in Nigeria, insurgent militia or juntas in Central and South America, Middle Eastern terrorist splinter Gihad's, all are poised to precipitate price shocks at every corner.
The overall distribution chain has become interdependent on a global basis. Oranges from Brazil, beef from Argentina, grain from Canada, oil from the Middle East, replacement parts from China, etc.
In many parts of this country it is next to impossible to find: locally produced milk, meat, fruit or vegetables, replacement parts for a Chinese manufactured item, or someone who knows how to manage water or run a farm, amongst other things.
Local capability, capacity and expertise no longer exist in a multitude of disciplines. Globalization is a wonderful thing, isn't it? Ever watch The Jay Walk All Stars on the Tonight Show?
We have a couple of generations that can't tell you what the Bill of Rights is, let alone, where Milk comes from or how its processed.
The real question is what happens at the local level when the distribution chain has outages, or worse yet, completely breaks down? Are we just lost in Suburbia?
Now hush, hush, my Sweet Charlotte, lets not go off on a tangent. That's a nightmare, er, I mean, bedtime story for another bloggin day.
The Dirty Fucking Hippies - Were Right!
If you didn't watch the above video, put it in reverse, you REALLY should.... it's absolutely spot on.
There is no question that our standard of living is better than the early 20th century. Ask yourself these questions and make an assessment on the last 49 years.
Aside from the obvious convenience and health benefits of technological advances, in the last 49 years, is the standard of living really getting better?
Depending on where in the food chain you are observing from, the answer could subjectively be yes or no. From a simple empirical standpoint of CPI dollars, it would seem not.
Have we compromised the future in allowing ourselves to become homogenized hamsters through the blind acceptance of the happy "habitrail" of life so "graciously" provided for us by the privileged few? Aka "The Rat Race".
Have we ultimately sold our souls for technological convenience? Or to "chase the bag"?
Have we been lulled to sleep while the judiciary has run amok eroding our civil rights as guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and Constitution?
Have we taken our priviledge and fortune for granted? And in the process forgotten the reasons why this country was founded? (To escape religious persecution and unfair taxation without representation. Sounds like under both party administrations, we have come full circle.)
Have we no regard for the effort of those who died and sacrificed to put us where we are today, just so we can give it all away on a silver platter?
Is our hedonistic and apathetic nature which appeals to gluttony, avarice and sloth, making us the architects of our own demise?
Things to ponder, tonight in the Naybob Zone.
Overhauled & Updated from 05/13/2005 for 2014.
It's Getting Better? 1 - 2014
It's Getting Better? 2 - 2014
It's Getting Better? 3 - 2014
It's Getting Better? 4 - 2014
It's Getting Better? 5- 2014
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