Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Generations Lost

Social Media has connected the world as no other medium before it. Everything we do with our GPS enabled smart phone is tracked, logged, collated, copied, and filed away - and probably fed into some data crunching super computer in order to predict consumer/terrorist behavior.

Prick head Zuckerburg (please don't delete my FB account) has the largest stockpile of personal data ever compiled and you best believe that shit is getting thoroughly mined.  

But what would the Silent Generation say about this obsession with ourselves? Because that's what it boils down to - this Social Media business. It is an obsession with airing our shit out so we can make others feel inferior or gain their sympathy or get them to buy our product or convince them of some cockamamie belief.

I can only speculate but this generation is defined by William Strauss and Neil Howe as an Artist/Adaptive generation born during a crisis, spending its rising adult years in a new high, spending its midlife in an awakening, and spending its old age in an unraveling. They were artistic leaders that have been advocates of fairness and the politics of inclusion, irrepressible in the wake of failure. Most counterculture figures were Silent Generation, including rock singers and individuals such as Ken Kesey, George Carlin, Allen Ginsberg, and Abbie Hoffman.

I suppose you could argue that this ultra high-tech connected society makes the world a better place - and maybe it does. But maybe it also gives nefarious scumbags the ultimate tool to exploit and create chaos. Just sayin - as I tweet this and post it on Facebook and Google+ - ؟

The March of Tyranny

Public Employees Must Be Stopped

Today, Ohio Gov. Kasich signed SB5 which curbs collective bargaining rights for those greedy fucking teachers, fire fighters, and police officers. The great Governor is really standing up for the common folk* by keeping these public servants in check.

Public employees are known for their excessiveness - from jaunts in the Mediterranean on private yachts to their penchant for thoroughbred race horses - they must be stopped and SB5 is just the first step in breaking the icy grip of this elitist class on the common people's* tax dollars.

The wastefulness of public employees and their generous retirement plans cannot be tolerated if the common folk are to subside.

*'common folk' and 'common people' refer to corporate American and Wall Street bankers

Dead Peasants

Evil has won – triumphantly placing its boot upon the neck of human freedom, justice, and decency.

We are taught from their books.

We believe their history. A crafty lie it is – one that keeps us content to live as slaves.

We accrue debt to foolishly broaden our minds.

We toil away for our corporate-fascist masters to fulfill our obligations.

We are worth more dead to them than alive.

Freedom is not being able to think unmolested by propaganda, but owning more material than the next.

How can we rise from our deathbeds?

Walmart and the DHS are teaming up - Do you feel safer?

Digital Internment Camps

Imagine if the Nazis had Facebook - the power of such a tool for nefarious activities is terrifying.

Fortunately the modern day world lives in peaceful harmony with one another and governments are altruistic. Therefore Facebook and the entire social web - where everything is public knowledge - could never be a tool of oppression - right?

It's inconceivable to imagine that the Information Awareness Office would use personal Facebook profiles to predict national security threats - isn't it? 

And our personal information would never be shared with credit card, pharmaceutical, and defense companies - correct?  

Why would they possibly want to know where we are, what we're doing, who we're with, what we ate, our deepest fears, our loves, our hates, our employment history, our martial status, and our favorite ice cream flavor?

How could any of this information be useful if there's a massive energy shortage? Or terrorist attack? Or environmental meltdown? It's not like they would need to control large swaths of the population or anything. 

The Terrorists Have Won

Democracy has died, liberty has perished, and the American dream has become a nightmare. Islands of oil soaked avian corpses have replaced amber waves of grain and the Tea Party now bears the Gadsden flag.

It truly is the end of fucking days - corporate fascism has become our creed and killing brown people in oil laden countries our deed.  

We have a brown President - but even he makes Uncle Tom  look like Malcolm X.

Just how far has our union fallen?

The very tenant of our society - Freedom - is being shat upon by those that claim to be the most patriotic.

Let them build a fucking Mosque next to the Gorund Zero. Hell, let them build a god damn Mosque on Ground Zero.

Why? It will prove to the world - and those who hate our foreign policy and government (no one hates our freedom) - that we are directed by our ideals about liberty and personal freedom, that we are not reactionary xenophobes, that the rights of everyone no matter race or religion are sacred.

But of course this is kool-aid drinking bullshit liberal fluff - ban Islamic teachings and begin construction of internment camps for 'rehabilitation', elect Sarah Palin President, Rush Limbaugh Minister of Propaganda, and Glenn Beck Secretary of State. Let's get this shit over with.

iGenocide

I agree with Ted Kaczynski's views on industrialized civilization. I don't agree with his whole killing people letter campaign, but the dude had a point. 

Ted on giving up modern conveniences that rely on petroleum:

"I don't think it can be done. In part because of the human tendency, for most people, there are exceptions, to take the path of least resistance. They'll take the easy way out, and giving up your car, your television set, your electricity, is not the path of least resistance for most people."  —Ted Kaczynski

While he was insane - as most geniuses are - his manifesto foreshadowed much of what society is going through now. 

We are faced with a stark decision; continue our lives of convenience or take drastic steps to change. The choice is obvious and we in fact don't really have a choice. 

Wars will continue to be fought for 'liberty' and 'freedom'. 

Oil companies will continue to commit heinous acts in the name of our addiction, as demonstrated here, here, and here. 

The iPhone and other gadgets will continue to require Coltan, which is mined by slaves in Congo and assembled by suicidal sweat shop workers in China. 

And BP will keep on being BP. 

Yes indeed, I agree with Ted, in that I don't think it can be done - an oil free modern society. But only to a degree. Where he was wrong - suggesting that violent provocation might hasten collapse. It will come naturally, and be great entertainment - what's better than watching unmanned drones rain missiles upon concrete grottoes, tarred sea-life clamor for oxygen, and indigenous people shed native garb for hazmat suits?     

The BP Oil Spill is a Blessing

Few things make me as ill as the desecration of wildlife.

However, this catastrophe may be a blessing, in that it will illuminate the innate corruption of our representatives.

The US Government is to blame for this disaster – BP is simply a parasitic twin with a black card (pun indented).

Our representatives essentially rapine pillaged the fuck out of the Gulf of Mexico and disguised their transgressions with ‘executive privilege’ as they covered up the inner workings of the secret energy task force.

The Bobby Jindal and the Minerals Management Service were for sale, scumbag senators sold the drilling rights, and Halliburton poured the concrete.

One of the most important ecosystems on Earth was irreparably damaged, thousands have lost their livelihoods, and millions of gallons of some shit called Corexit was dumped into the ocean without fully understanding its effects on wildlife and humans. Yeah, with a name like Corexit, it must be environmentally friendly.

While this is a great tragedy that is bound to get worse, I take solace in knowing that perhaps this will light a fire under the asses of the goaded masses, forcing them to realize that they have been on the receiving end of arcane capitalist rape for the past hundred years. But, it probably won’t. 

Pink sky at night is a sailor's delight.

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