Farewell DU

[PatrickforB]

115. OK...you know general strikes kind of got killed clear back in 1947 with the Taft-Hartley Act

But have any of you wondered what would happen if we stopped cooperating completely for a few weeks? Don't buy anything but the necessities, and just go to work. No hits on websites, no Facebook, Instagram, nothing, and no streaming news? And no buying stuff.

Oh, really hard to do and nobody really pays attention to it. But what would happen if...? It is a nice thought. Because I get so tired of a consumer culture that barrages us 7/24/365 with ads dreamed up by people who are trying to create a false sense of urgency so we will spend money we don't have to buy stuff we don't really need. It sucks away all meaning from life.

And I get dozens of texts and emails too - SELL, SELL, SELL!!! DONATE, DONATE, DONATE!!!

I'm done. We have not been watching the news at all because even MSNBC is publicly traded so the fiduciary responsibility of their senior producers is never about truth in news and always about generating shareholder profits. And Fox? We won't even go there because it is nothing more than a right wing propaganda organ. I'm sick of biased media coverage because we have not gotten anything like the whole story on anything since 1987 when Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine. That got rid of the last of the Murrow/Cronkite, Huntley-Brinkley people and gave us dregs like Hannity and Carlson.

You know, I'm not going to purchase any big ticket items unless something goes out and I have to. I work from home mostly so I'm not going to drive much.

But how do you say 'no' to something like Amazon? Doordash? Trumpy is unleashing these billionaire parasites on the treasury and they are going to do their best to strip it clean and leave the rest of us flapping in the wind. I mean, you wouldn't want any of these people in your house because you'd be afraid they would steal the silver. They aren't even close to being normal human beings - they have become so distorted by avarice - just sheer greed - they are barely human. They spend their entire life force amassing wealth, and for what? When the reaper comes, and it will for every one of us, we won't be taking any money with us when we go. Nor will we be taking any political power or economic power. None of that.

Have you ever wondered what the real reason is for human life? Why we were created? What we are supposed to be producing in our compressed sojourns on this planet? I do. I have, actually, since I was a child. Because we've gotten so just basic survival is so distorted, so commercialized, that it is devoid of any kind of meaning or sense.

I guess we will be living much more simply as we can.