I was gonna post this thing I wrote the other day. Same call for the same shit that I don't expect to happen. although it is amusing that the economy has collapsed, albeit who knows if the shell game is really up or if the illusion makers can pull off another convincing scheme to get the majority believing in belief again. I hope it's really on it's permanent way down, not because I wish peoples dreams and expectations to fail, just so we can come up with a real solution when those people finally give up on this shit brained idea of ...... whatever form of expletive capitalism you prefer to call it. The word expletive represents all expletives not any particular one since I couldn't think of just one descriptive word for it.
Believing in belief. sounds absurd doesn't it? The one useful thought I had recently had to do with that old beaten dead horse I always drag out from under my bed for these blogs: the Mohawk Valley Formula. No link, guess you'll have to google it or swallow the big pill and read some of the older shit on here. This interview with Michael Hudson caught my attention and filled in the missing intellectual link.
besides finding his debt writedown solution the only reasonable one so far, this quote caught my attention:
" I learned the reality a few years ago in London, talking to a commercial banker. 'We’ve had an intellectual breakthrough,' he said. 'It’s changed our credit philosophy.'
'What is it?' I asked, imagining that he was about to come out with yet a new magical mathematics formula?
'The poor are honest,' he said, accompanying his words with his jaw dropping open as if to say, “Who would have guessed?'"
There it is. The end result of the formula is a mass audience with some significant portion watching or, reading it for a pastime, finding themselves in the hall of MSM illusions and simulacra believing their artificial and cherry picked narratives which tend to filter heavily any appearance of class. Thus we are given the bootstrap philosophy, the blame the weak philosophy, the rich are just like you and me philosophy... and here we have it, the annointing of the rich as a self made nobility. It scaffolds the illusion of support and legitimacy over our whole society. It redefines their legitimacy in a shared landscape with the default state of existence in the larger culture. While it doesn't share the wealth, it does share in this mystical simulacra common the filtered reflection of reality. This creates a false consciousness bolus among the conventional which lends to the myth that you can work hard and be honest and some day merit a larger share. That being possible makes it a fair system. That myth being extremely unlikely makes it's representation as such the realm of speculation amongst the cynical, the jaded, the agitators, those who appreciate irony, and those who recognize it for what it is. In short it is an enormous, shrouded lie that leads to wasted lives in so many avenues and is of such a scale most people can't recognize it for not being the real sky, because it has filled up the sky for their entire lives and the lives of their recent ancestors.
Maybe no one even believes any of this shit any more beyond the incredibly naive. But of those that do how many possess the aptitude for self reflection to sort out the fact or fiction that models their actions? What I'm looking for is some reason as to why no one reacts. Are they really happy enough as it is? Is it learned helplessness? Is it some combination of fear and greed? Is it some variation of the Milgram experiment and a majority just go along with whatever anyone who seems to fit the archetype of someone who knows what they are doing regardless of the outcome?
The bigger question, and the better one to me is how do we interrupt this meme? Can anybody do anything about it, and could anyone know what the next step is beyond this incredible collective hangover which hasn't seen daylight yet? Do we co-opt it or better yet modify it into a vaccination against obedience to the point of stupidity and self destruction. Or is that a fool's errand? Do we help it crash or do we try to figure out where we can avoid it's chemical reactions as it decomposes violently? I guess reaction is up to the individual. How many out there would rather talk about action in it's pure context, only to find that everything is a reaction from this monstrosity, navigating it's communicative medias, dealing with it's pre-fab opinions, and it's legions of dysfunctional waste. So many things ruined, and when the tsunami comes, then comes a whole new scale of reaction, a whole new set of parameters, a whole new development in the war for control versus decontrol and the possibility for untethered action.
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