Day #3 - Capitalism

Day three of this series promises to be good.  Let's go, shall we?

I don't really have to say what Capitalism is, do I America?  Let's be honest, deep down in our greedy souls, we all know what this is.  Don't make me define it.  If you're still not ABSOLUTELY positive as to what capitalism entails, well...look around.  It isn't too hard to miss.  Heck, even that brownie on the corner selling lemonade has it lasered into her brain at a young age.

 Capitalism, not unlike Democracy, is all well and good.  It's been proven to be a good system.  It has, and could well again, work for us.  Only one thing I gotta think, here.  We just have to get rid of that pesky GREED thing!!  It's there...always Getting...in the WAY!!  It really messes everything up, ya Know?

Well, you know as well as I do America, that our Father (No, not THAT Father) the GOVERNMENT is greed supreme, and a heck of a tutor.  Our billion-dollar corps have learned about all they can, and learned it well.  They've been out of the nest for quite a while now, flying high all on their own and doing very well, of this there is no doubt.  And the trickle-down doesn't end there kids....noooo...those greed lessons have obviously been offered to the general public as well.  I remember one of our generations...I couldn't tell you which one, nor do I care, mostly, because if the label has been applied to that one, it's WRONG.  What did  they say??  The ME generation.  I'm sorry America, but there isn't a ME generation.  Oh, to be sure, there's most certainly a ME century...and it's the one we're in now.  Only the latter part of the 20th were we just getting started; it was most certainly a preview.  But this is it.  Scope out some simple things...greed is everyplace.  No one pays the price people ask for on Craigslist, or what an item is worth.  Answers to ads tend to always have a preclusion that entails offering a heck of a lot less...then we laugh, but we always file it away, just in case we can't sell it.  Oh, but when we go to buy those things!!  Sheesh.  I used to get $5 for used CD's back in the day.  Now I can't get 25 cents a piece for 'em.  DVD sets I paid over $100 for, I can't pawn for over $1 apiece.  I paid $2,010 for a brand new 4 poster bed...and a year later was lucky to get $800 for it.  The computer I bought for close to $800?  If it's out of box at all, I'm looking at $400 if I'm lucky, and I just bought it a month ago.

"Oh, c'mon now...it's not all that, is it?"  Nope.  Not yet anyway.  You see, under the S category of our sins, we have yet another, besides the one I plan to cover, when we get there.  What's that?  Socialism.  Oh, we're not socialist, we're capitalist.  Ohhhhh.  Really.

OK, so let's compare notes, shall we?  We, the people, are most certainly capitalists.  The government we have, however, is not.  Oh, it LOOKS like it is, but it's not.  That's a cover.  See, there are recognized signs that are widely approved, that indicate a move to socialism.  Fraudulent vote counts (Remember G.W.?  You really think we loved that man that much?  That we voted him in twice?  No way Jose.)  A President that ignores (and passes law that ignores) in place and nationally voted-upon legislation (G.W., again...and now Obama, at least 10 times worse).  A police state, and a cry going up from the public that this is happening (check out Youtube and copblock.com).  Media that sees this and reports it (see the same places).  This, even though a lot of you have no idea about it, is happening...NOW.  For example, did you know that we gave away our cold war military weapons and gear....to our LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT???  Yup.  Congress passed the law to do so back in 1994.  Here.  It's unreal.  Here's what worries me though.  Before, we were paying attention.  We could see what was happening.  Mostly because we had very little to distract us.  But not anymore...

NOW we have computers.  Laptops.  The internet.  Cell phones.  iPads/iPhones.  PS4's/Xboxes.  And games.  Every single item I just mentioned has CAMERAS, some front and back.  Oh my lord, at the very least, 3/4 of our free time is all about the games we play.  Slots.  Candy Crush.  You name it, we play it.  Everywhere.  On the bus.  At work, on break, at the doctor's office.  The other quarter of our free time, we're messaging.  It's nuts.  Oh yeah, I'm guilty.  I have tons of things to do, and it's actually hard work to quit playing or Facebooking long enough to do those things.  It's a wonder I've actually managed to make time to do this series at all.  Not unlike a coke habit, I've actually DREAMED ABOUT PLAYING THESE GAMES...that's not a lie.  And, the more we stare down, the less we see.  We're not paying attention.  So one of two majorly bad things are bound to happen here.  Either a country (not unlike China, who's been bursting at the seams and piling people on top of each other for a good century now) is gonna whomp in and take over, or our own government, when it sees it can get away with stuff, starts pulling the wool over our eyes and turning out the lights so we don't notice what's going on, then gets too big for it's britches and huddles all the power to the mount on which it sits.

So what does this all have to do with our sin of Capitalism you ask?  Should be obvious.  Can't believe I even have to explain it.  Corporations, hand in hand with the government, are turning us into socialists, using capitalism as a cover.  And we're not looking.  We don't pay attention to it anymore.  The time is ripe for some kind of takeover, and from what I understand, we might be in the middle of it right....this....minute.

I'm on level 190 of Candy Crush.  Tomorrow I might be in handcuffs, or, thanks to Socialist sign #4, I might just be a victim of "The Assassination of key public figures."  Only next week will tell.