national disgrace

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If you abstract enough, you abstract into oblivion.

Nothing actually exists until we make it exist. And we make it exist through thoughts, words, language and models of reality. Reality is nothing at all, has no subdivisions, has no relations, no relationships, no laws and no laws of physics. All of thse things come into existence by our mind breaking down the information it receives into words and concepts and logic and quantities, by a neural circuit that uses its information and invents an internal memory for useless information and abides to some absurd internal rules and regularities. Information itself is not really so until we decide to distinguish it and notice it. Until we delimit and subdivide it according to some arbitrary code. You don’t put a house and a rock and a memory and a number together to mean something do you ? But if you want to it can become an item or the item of most importance, hence no item is really important.

The breakdown was guided by how natural evolution created this completely and totally non-necessary system of atoms and molecules called homo-sapiens, programmed it according to pain/pleasure circuits that map onto logic for survival. Even survival and existence is not necessary and a complete bizarre quirk.

So given our decomposition of reality into a regularity that can only make sense to a quirk combination of atoms and molecules, nothing exists outside of our inventions. Make new inventions and you make a new reality, a new world, a new association between logic, rules, regularity and emotions.

And so what “social reference” ? Any at all, millions of humans can be programmed to act and organize in any of millions of ways. Which is the better, and better for who ? Anyone’s guess, there is no better…

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In many settings today and in many settings in corporations this may be partially true. But in other settings it is NOT. If I need a good doctor, surgeon, dentist, and if I need a good engineer to design a building, the skills must be there, the inequality is real and the good professional must be paid more and often alot more. The problem is when the skill set becomes “fuzzy”, the goals are fuzzy, the corporations are fuzzy, etc. Financial services is a very fuzzy activity and so are insurance companies for example. So where inequality is justified and real, it is good and necessary, where it is not clear then questions arise …

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Why are the poor sad ? because the dominant social goal, construction, implies success, social success, status. So they become as the dominant social model places them, that is sad because they are “poor”, because they were brainwashed that they should be sad, unhappy, that they are losers, that they should manipulate themselves and external reality to try to become or near the social model of “success”. But even when this model is achieved, even when you have everything you discover that you are almost exactly the same, you have the same emotions, only the fact that other people judge you “better” gives you some satisfaction, but the judgment of other people, of “society”, what goes on in other people’s minds is really forever unknown, so you base your satisfaction on ghosts, on what other people assumedly think and judge, you are a slave of other people’s judgment.

Ancient tribes were materially very poor, but they were either mostly indifferent or happy. Why have any goal anyways ? Why have any emotions anyways ? Why think and torture oneselves anyways especially thinking about health care you will lose, a pension that will never materialize, the next layoff ? Thinking and feeling emotions is a jail, a dictatorship, indifference and nothing is better.

In all truth, the USA is not really about money, but about STATUS, social status as understood as socially successful, as understood as being some kind of superstar, a leader, a “team” leader, a person who does so “many activities”, a person who gives to charities so as to even further his already “high” social standing like Bill Gates. It is not enough to have billions of dollars, you also have to have an ethical justification (against the poor, lazy slob losers), a metaphysical justification that he is right, that the world is a good place, that the various Gates are the example of how “the world, a good place, rewards hard work, inventions, and altruistic behavior”.

All this places the losers of Amerika in even further distress, psychological distress, of being failures, unethical and the world being a good place, not deserving status because they are BAD and deserve to be punished. Punishing Amerika, how much fun they have when people lose their jobs because they are laid off, because they get sick and can’t pay the “high technology” health care.

NOTE:

Big business in Texas is calling for a better environment to work, more advantages. Incredible, worldwide companies now control the entire world economy, have a billion disposable workers available at any price, with any skills, in any place, have trillions of dollars in wealth and capital and the poor corporations need “a better environment”.

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Hey n9 you are absolutely wrong on everything. If you work hard and have talent you will be rewarded, END OF STORY. Cut the crap, so who cares if there are millions of “losers” in the world, inequality filters out those that don’t deserve anything, DEAL WITH IT AND ACCEPT REALITY.

Actually if there were strong UNIONS in the USA, very strong unions, they could manage to greatly improve the conditions of millions of workers, and most of all, WOULD GREATLY EXPAND CAPITALISM by improving the lot of the salaried workers. The workers could buy more stuff, consume more therefore make industries expand forever. The real problem of USA Capitalism and worldwide is that there are not enough really strong, tough unions that can finally get worldwide salaries up to at least 1,000 dollars a month, and free health care and cheap housing, to name a few.

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Another aspect of the USA is the “insecurities industry”. All attempts are being made to render life in the USA as insecure as possible. Health care is no longer guaranteed by companies (they have to be competitve, they have to cut “useless” costs, the health of its workers is useless, has zero value, so just cut it), the workers have to take care of themselves and pay it from their own pocket, this is the “free market”, “capitalism”, the survival of the strongest and fittest. Aside from the fact that no one ever questions why health care costs must rise every year, WHO ON EARTH IS GETTING ALL THE MONEY ??? I don’t think it is the doctors…

You have to worry about your future pension, since there will no longer be any “social security”, the ugly “communist” thing they invented in the 20th century. So keep your mind worried on how to invest your money, play that big poker game called stocks, worry about inflation, worry about how not to lose your money, worry about your future, buy insurances and financial services that will “guarantee” your future, the future is a jail, is a dictatorship, just like the past is a dictatorship, you chose the wrong career path, you should have “worked harder”, you should have done any of a million alternative things you didn’t, now you are broke, now you “deserve” to suffer because in the past you didn’t “worry” about your future, you didn’t make the right moves in corporate america, you didn’t play your “hand” right, you are a loser.

The entire industry is a kind of psychological warfare declared on the lower class to keep their mind constantly worried and occupied on how they will survive. The past is all “regret”, the future is all insecure, therefore you must buy secure financial products that will give you a sure return. How much of all this bullshit is really true ? The past is just a sequence of events, that could have gone anywhere, the markets and economy and careers are all casual events most of the time, you can be lucky or unlucky, sometimes you managed to reach a goal, good, it worked out, but the past is irrelevant and could have gone anywhere. As for the future, before all the “insecurites” industry sells you any product they always warn you that “past performance is no guarantee of future performance”, which mean buy at your own risk, if the financial entity decides to simply rob all your money, it is all ok, it is part of the “game”, of “capitalism”, the “risk loving” system where the “hard working” and “talented” are rewarded. What a total rip off the USA has become.

The risk is always on the weakest person, the strong crush the weak, the USA is a psychological jail and will eventually self destruct itself by continuing this insane game of making “profits” of expecting money “to work for you”, of expecting to get something out of nothing. You can only rob so much from the american workers, the rest of the world has unions and are not so brainwashed by all the bullshit the capitalist ideology endorses. The USA is headed towards a civil war of the “losers” against the “winners” also known as class struggle or class warfare. Pump up the insecurities, make people worry more and more about their future and torment themselves aboth their past, “their failings”. The insecurity industry has lots of new products to sell, you can be sure.

Poverty in the USA is different from poverty in the rest of the world, it is a psychological warfare, the shortcomings of people are always exaggerated and greatly emphasized. Poverty in america is amplified by all the psychological warfare that the corporations wage on its workers, the workers are always at fault, always guilty of not being up to date, of not working enough, of not being competitive enough of not having the right skill sets, etc. In other countries, you are just poor, who cares, at least they don’t have this huge psychological burden to bear. The USA is in a sense truly the poorest country on earth.

The most effective work today is to do nothing at all, the model where there are still things to do, work to be done is false, there is very little left to do, computers automated most work, just enjoy and don’t do anything, but the very fact that all these financial companies have to “work” and “do something” is a sure road towards catastrophy.