so we see, in various ways, the alienation of people
in the U.S…those who support conspiracies are just one group…
those who say, “Pox on both houses”… referring to the political parties…
are another group…the fact that 50% of all possible voters stayed home
last election is just another indication of the alienation of people…
the thought is that why do anything when nothing will change…
you see that alienated thought even around here…
I would guess that at least 25% of all Americans fit into this alienation…
or perhaps between 80 and 100 million Americans are alienated from
society and the government…and I am guessing that among those who actually
voted, they voted largely for IQ45…
which leads us to the point that no society can survive with so many
people feeling alienated from the society or government…
so is there an answer to bring these people back from being alienated?
is there an solution to this problem and I do suggest it is a problem when
a quarter of your population just couldn’t care less if the society/government
succeeds or failed because they think it doesn’t affect them in any way, shape, or form…
I think this problem stems from two factors… political and economic…
the political is obvious, the feeling that the government serves the wealthy
and powerful instead of the people on main street…the government is bought
and paid for by the wealthy… and we have no voice in America any longer…
over 300 million Americans are left voiceless because of the selling of America
continues on…the recent tax law is just another example of this…
a majority of Americans opposed the tax bill and no one in Washington
could have cared less because they no longer serve the American people…
that is one source of the alienation of America and the other source is
the economic… in two ways, first it is no longer true that we
have a society that is open to those who work hard get rewarded
equally well… the economic system has been rigged, with the help
of bought and paid for politicians, to reward those who are already wealthy,
and punish those who are middle or lower class… and the second way is
the mind boggling nihilistic manner in which the workers are treated
by corporations… workers are used and abused and then discarded
when they have no financial value… money/profit is valued higher
then workers or their lives or their values… we are a society that
prays to money and profit and anything that is not about money/profit
is crushed, denied, forsaken, abandoned, discarded…and this
is when profits are valued higher then people lives… this pursuit
of profits that is nihilistic has feed into alienation of American’s…
we don’t need to be told we have less value then money/profit…
we see this every single day in the words and actions of corporate
america where causing the deaths of thousands of people is simple
the cost of doing business and written off in a tax break…
no loss for the business if it causes peoples lives to be ruined
or wasted or finished… they have bought off the politicians
to escape responsbility for their actions… and we continue
the path to the alienation of America… and what is our role
in the alienation? we are complict when we say silent and
hide behind the lie that it is nothing personal, it is the system,
the blind impersonal system that decides the winners and losers…
but that is a lie…because corporate america has rigged the game,
so they are the only winners in the system…
and we stay silent and complicit in this shell game…
the march for our lives yesterday is an example of
people no longer being silent and complicit in the rigged game…
you say, you are wrong Kropotkin… but you are lying, to me and to
yourself… for you know the truth… in modern America, workers
are simply cannon fodder to be sacrificed in the name of profits…
and by being silent, you accept this… by doing nothing, you accept this…
the alienation of America has lead us to this point… but what is the solution
to the alienation of America?
Kropotkin