I am not disputing any federal laws broken by any trespasser and destructor of federal property on Jan 6th, 2021, and I acknowledge that laws were broken by an unruly mob; and they should be justly and fairly prosecuted for every individual crime. It should have been so cut and dry that the event should have left us all with a boring conversation we had once or twice last year over a couple of beers about a stupid moment in our history.
But that’s not what we have here, and it’s not a Democrat vs Republican thing, or a BLM vs MAGA thing. The narrative manipulation and control of it is something deeper, and more entrenched in a struggle that is as old as time. It’s all about class. The ruling class, and the bourgeoisie is never more offended then when the working class decides to speak up. Now one could argue that ANTIFA and BLM represent the working class in a different way. Well, yes and no. Where ANTIFA and BLM fall differently into that category is their leaders, and decrees are largely based in secular and academic post-modern philosophical musings. Whereas the MAGA, Not-Left, Anti-Socialist crowd is far more rooted in the lessons of the bible, working a trade and/or skill, and raising a family.
Now let’s simplify those modern perspectives even further to truly understand how this is a struggle as old as time. About class, not race, and not partisan.
The Royalty, The Lords, Soviets, NAZIS, - Largely Secular, Progressive, always values large-state federal mandated legislation as the backbone for order and safety; therefore, individuals with skills to serve the state are a priority. Family-- especially for the lower classes in these societies is always marginalized and looked at as something that should be very small and manageable as the goal. A child or two; no more than needed. Crowd gathering unless state sanctioned very much restricted.
Working Class - Spiritual, and always searching for a set of skills that provide economic sovereignty from the state, and a partner to engage in unchecked breeding, i.e., community building for the future. Leaving a legacy with your name attached to the next generation is the goal. In love with simple traditions such as nights at the local pub, church groups, and sports.
I know I am oversimplifying the concept of the ruling class versus the working class over the last few hundred years; but at it’s core it is these values pitted up against each other, and now more than ever is a growing issue. With the more concentrated spread of wealth in the upper middle classes, and upper classes it has increasingly expanded the reach and growth of whom is accepted into the ruling class. For perhaps the first time upper-middle classes who for most of history felt culturally closer to the serfs are now in lock step with the Lords, and they like it. Just as any new power feels good when it’s fresh-- our neighbors, the proud progressive voters who have never seen a paycheck under 90k since their early twenties are now the standard bearers, the front line, and the arbiters for The Ruling Class, and The New Lords of our days. Whereas all other past times of turmoil, societal decay, and mass propaganda the upper middle class at the very least commiserated with the lower classes and the middle class.
This concentration of wealth and their new popular power in the social hierarchy is intoxicating—and when it comes to the simple economics of it these two groups are not even in the same world of access. For the American Median income is $31,138 p/year. While the average Income for midlevel corporate professionals in all high density popular cosmopolitan areas of our country is $120-$150k p/year. That’s not just a divide that’s literally living in two different times in history. A time machine would be needed for each group to remotely understand each other. Let that sink in.
A quick example once again. Nowadays you turn on the radio, or TV from CBS to NBC you will no doubt within minutes whether it be subtle and passive, or completely in your face be presented with a monologue or interview that suggests the working class, the hick, the street tough, the union worker, etc. basically needs to be re-educated to be accepted into our new perfect vision of the future. Their grievances are old-fashioned, racist, a “threat to our democracy.” Well call me old-fashioned but when an entire nation’s majority of net margin of capital is being stripped away little by little from the working class of all race, color, and creed and being systemically and purposely redistributed by a conglomerate of a few corporations; and then applauded by journalists, and the government—I would maybe begin my intellectual musings about all this with:
“Hey maybe their grievances are completely warranted.”
But like I said I guess I am just an old-fashioned bigot that prefers the old days when the upper classes, the academia, and journalists helped the backward lower class scum workers of the industrial revolution get better wages and human working conditions. Or women the right to vote. Or fighting against the drafting of 18-year-old boys for a war that made no sense. If it’s racist and ignorant to stop and give the working-class protest, and demonstrations a platform and a voice then slap a giant R on my chest like Superman.
But why has such a logical and humanely moral way of thinking been eroded, and so quickly? I believe due to the spread of corruption by wealth and greed to what use to be our neighbors that resided similarly in the same classes as us working schlubs. The construction worker, the carpenter, and the businessman salaries were separate by maybe 25%--now it’s 100-200 percentage points. It’s grotesque and it’s archaic.
It’s very Medieval actually—que your memories of Braveheart or Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Because here we are in 2022 and you are either working for The Lords or you toil the land. Although you may think we are far from those primal times of barbaric conflict, and you will look to your iPhone or Jeff Bezos jerking off to his Dildo Rocket for confirmation; and I am too blown away by these remarkable modern feats. But all that aside we are headed right towards the class struggle as old as time.
The rise of the corporation, and the corporatist economy versus a true free capitalistic one has created these old conflicts to be new again. It also has turned our neighbors into cronies for the corporate powers who feed marching orders to the government and the state. Causing an almost incurable divide in our country that is on its last leg of divorce proceedings heading for an absolute haul by the upper classes and corporations.
For when you have 60-70% percent of the country’s upper classes/capital wealth concentrated in 10-20% of a country’s geography all the while answering fervently to Their Lord’s Orders (Their employers-- mainly large immoral corporations that dictate now how the government sees morality and ethics who also are primarily located in even a lower percentage of the country’s landscape—you might as well be seeing the witches in Macbeth as these corporations.) And, just as they undid the sanity and moral compass of Macbeth—these inorganic rises of a new social hierarchy and concentration of wealth are decaying all fragile social cohesion we have relied on for centuries, by undoing the morality and sanity of the majority of wealthy Americans.
It’s quite simple and it’s what made the American experiment special for our entire existence as a young nation. The men and women who have busted their ass and broke their backs have always in the end generation after generation have been rewarded with the next wave of social change and progress landing on their sides based on their grievances being listen to. And why wouldn’t you listen to the people building the base of the metaphorical pyramid? Any sane man knows the base must be strong and sturdy or else collapse is inevitable. It has been the absolute spine of success and sustainability as a nation. Sure, we have strayed from time to time, and the country has made disastrous decisions hurting this concept, but it always has been led back to its proper track.
And, yet now we are heading towards uncharted waters as Americans, and they are dangerous, and shark infested. Our leaders both socially and economically are not only toying with the idea-- but implementing through education, journalism, and regulatory practices that the proper future of social change and progress is looking to the American’s that bust their ass and break their backs (for not much money) as the villains in this newly designed play that would have Shakespeare rolling over in his grave.
Come this Jan 6th the anniversary of “The Insurrection,” what a laughable description; we will all no doubt read and see from the talking heads comparing this event to 9/11, World War II, Islamic Terrorism, and bigotry and racism. While you are all being fed fearful propaganda to keep you in line, take a second and think no matter how destructive the demonstration might have been, have I ever in my life demonized a broke, outsourced, struggling working class bloke down on his luck?
The answer if you’re being honest with yourself, and you allow yourself to think back to your true childhood like sense of right or wrong is a big old “No.”
So please no matter how comfortable you feel on your couch in your one bedroom apartment with your legal weed watching more television than any human will ever need in a lifetime with a decent paying job, just take a second and do not look at these people on TV as smarter than you, or having better ethical or moral practices than you. They get paid to read a teleprompter of news that they don’t write themselves paid by the very companies that would love nothing more than a forever submissive powerless working class. Jan 6th if it can be cemented as a tragic moment in time with the likes of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor it will for at least a generation or two be a societal narrative blow to the BLACK, WHITE, BROWN, and PURPLE men, and women who truly work their asses off to make this country function. Look at their transgressions on Jan 6th, 2021 as a whole class of people not able to take it anymore. Not as our enemy. As our neighbors who need to be heard just as much as every other struggling demographic of our society.
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