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Re: Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, March 16 2012, 14:33:07 (UTC)
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...damn me...I moved to Mexico for exactly the same reasons, plus a few more, like weather and an affordable lifestyle.

My moment of realizing that America was bound for the shitter, as all "great" empires have headed...was back in the early 60s when I saw a new commercial on teevee...I think the brand of potato chip was Laura Scudder, or maybe Granny Goose, doesn't matter really....the ad showed a pretty little girl in a pretty little dress sitting in a pretty living room in what could only have been a pretty suburb...she was watching teevee herself and munching from a bag of said potato chip....next thing you know daddy enters, obviously tired from a long commute, his necktie loose, jacket over his shoulder...he slumps down next to his daughter, eyes her potato chips, as she ignores him completely...and asks if he can have one...just one.

Without acknowledging his presence in any other way, eyes glued to the screen, as mine were, she says a simple "no". The idea being these chips are so damned good Daddy can drop dead before his girl will share any....Daddy smiles and the screen fades. The message is supposed to mean that Daddy, and Mommy and little Timmy too will each have to get their own bag of chips, hence more sales for the manufacturer...cute, no?

I knew then that a society that places such virtue in selfishness and greed was already in distress.

If someone, in the very suburb, and on the same block, had suggested that ten families chip in and buy one power lawn mower, using it on alternate days and providing a collective fund for repairs etc., that it would cost them all much less and instead of ten idle lawnmowers parked in garages, there would be only one and with the money saved the families could spend on other more personal items...that person would truly be Un-American...because America is all about getting as many lawnmowers sold as possible...because this creates JOBS...as does a demand for potato chips from EVERY member of every family....and we need Jobs to make America work.

Any capitalist system is a system of progressive greed,,,it HAS to be...and any system ruled by a profit motive will first destroy its air and water and trees and next itself....it will happen ever time....no mystery.



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