Please, #Occupy Wall Street without those idiotic Guy Fawkes masks!
As a terrorist who wanted to subject England to Spain, Guy Fawkes set Catholic emancipation back to 1830.
But deeper than this, wearing a mask makes a sickening statement: that you’re more important than an ordinary person and have a Secret Identity, the basic Male Fantasy when you desire to avoid facing, with sober senses, the real conditions of your life.
Look at the fixed smirk on the mask. It is oh so superior, pitying and in the know, and the wearer is usually one of those annoying lunatics, who, having been cheated out of an education by universities that no longer impose core requirements, thinks that dismantling civilization in the form of public schools or the Federal Reserve will bring us all to some sort of ill defined Zion.
Men are afraid so afraid today. My sons don’t hate me, I know, they just don’t call is all because they are trying to be strong silent types. Heck with that, we used to stay up all night talking in the 1960s.
Whereas women expose their faces to the world at the risk of getting Maced (when idiots aren’t forcing them to veil against their will). They produce half the wealth of the world, holding up half the sky in a literal sense. They aren’t paid at all for housework and they STILL make about 60 cents on the dollar world wide.
LET THAT be your “fiat money”; it’s payment for labor that is unpaid.
Since the abandonment of the gold standard, which was “necessary” to finance the carnage of World War I without discommoding the comfortable classes, governments have exercised what IS a sovereign power: the power to print money. Boo hoo. Nice work to have, and in a Constitutional republic, we need a Federal Reserve simply to ensure that the People of the United States have control, ultimately, over the central bank.
Credit extension has taken the place of the absolute need to reproduce labor that is extracted without payment. Today’s hypercapitalism extracts labor without paying because that is gold to them. Here are some forms:
1. Working a software developer 16 hours a day while paying him for eight while brow-beating him, lowering his self-esteem and destroying his family.
2. Forcing his wife to care for two children and pick up after them and him 24/7 while in untreated post-partum depression whilst software boy fills the house with smoke and triggers serious asthma in his eldest son, while not being able to afford the psychotherapy that might have ended his addiction to nicotine.
3. Paying that wife too little when after the resulting divorce, she uses her perfect grammar and spelling to record the minutes of City Council meetings that last well into the evening, in which rich homeowners tear into renters in her community.
4. Working a teacher five years at six days a week without a raise despite the fact that the children love his kindness and the books he buys to read to them especially Madeline of Paris, and despite the fact that he brings in new business.
5. Destroying his ex-wife’s access to health care and day care and offering instead predatory loans.
6. Stealing the grown son’s last paycheck at more than one job.
7. Marshalling resentment against the other son’s good looks and failure to be a predator, just a hard working entrepreneur.
This specific laundry list has only to be multiplied billions of times to include the Beijing teacher who dares not ask for a raise because his grandfather was a landlord, the scholarship boy in the UK who can’t afford posh accent classes, the French woman who fails the Bac and the Mongolian yak herder who is too kind to his frigging yaks.
Take it seriously people. Bourdieu (the French philosopher and social theorist) calls it The Weight of the World. Because economists are, despite their pretension, NOT scientists, only charlatans and whores who confuse scientific asceticism with science, they, unlike physicists, will not speak of this Weight of the World, this “dark matter”, this Satanic extraction of surplus value.
But Marx did.
We need to face this. We’ve worked for free because a white collar economy makes it easy to extract our time. This is the problem and not the Federal Reserve.
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