Unfortunately, yes we need a lot of people buying what they have to have--and don’t need--to keep not only our but China’s economy growing at a certain percentage growth rate. A percentage growth rate is an exponential growth rate and is always unstable unless supported by other variables such as bountiful resources to exploit.
As has been predicted for a long time, the greedy exploitation of Mother Earth is now biting all of us in the ass and the greedy choose to not see what is in front of them. Greed, religion, population growth will probably not destroy the world as there will be corrections like epidemics, wars, revolutions, natural calamities and the poor and defenseless will continue to suffer the brunt of the corrections.
Now imagine hundreds of different employees all taking a small bite. The summation of the little bites can eventually drain all accounts, especially small accounts.
So in our society the poor and the lower incomes people are more vulnerable to the multitude of blood sucking ticks. I’d guess corporate ticks are one of the reasons for rising homelessness especially two larger ticks know as the medical and pharmaceutical ticks. In addition, These two larger ticks are carriers of different infections some that bribe all politicians, others that flood all airwaves and forms of communications with lies called advertisements, advertisements that take advantage of psychology and marketing research to influence the behavior of the herds of people.
I recommend you have a look at Jessica DeFino and her The unpublishable. It's all about the world of cosmetics mostly the junk sold in drug stores and department stores but really talks about the way women in particular and now I see the sea of men wanting a better look from LGBTQ+ to the businessman who wants a close shave, manscapes, and might do some light foundation if it promises sun screen. It's what has come over us in a really only a decade or 15 years, the sector dabbles with surgery and botox, costs a fortune to maintain and is terrible for ones health. Now there is salesmanship. It's how Kimberly Gilfole and so many others go from very pretty woman first, a loss of perspective imho, and now closer to the weird cat lady of plastic surgery. What started in the 30's as a way to fix broken faces has turned into a quest for perfection from the Bronx to the Golden Gate. We don't have better ways to make jobs for people I guess. Everyone need money to buy stuff. Our jobs if you're not able to lift more than 50 pounds are hospitality, phones. Sales. We actually need the junk that kills us and the planet to sell so we can make the world go round?
Thank you for writing this. I believe I understand where you are coming from. However, even though I agree about how bad Trump is, I do not believe that focusing all our anger on trump helps us see the more underlying problems that is not only obvious. In Trump but is endemic in our society in general but also in humanity itself.
Trump is not the first or last crazy but is representative of a destructive and cancerous problem that has infected all history and most likely prehistory. To save humanity from ultimate destruction with all our weapons, I believe we--thoughtful people like you and hopefully me--need to become more cognizant of this underlying force of inherited and learned--think epigenetic--that always devolves into destructive tribalism.
As always, I recognize I may be totally full of shit.
I see some errors in what I wrote but this program does not allow me to edit. However, the essence of my response should still be clear. Fighting Trump and Trumpism is fighting a battle but not fighting the war.
I wrote this piece as usual, with a need to answer the buzz I was hearing all day about the current court trial with the company etc. the noise about the lies. The constant single note of the media leaves a picture of the family that is incomplete. My thoughts include the human tragedy we are witnessing. The parade of lies and obfuscation we see is the clown show. There is real human cost too. I want people to have the correct impression. Crazy clown which I have supported till now for all of them. With the two wars looking as though in particular, Israel could easily spiral out of control for Bibi and all, I wanted to do a character sketch rather than news. I have some people on my thread that register voters. Although not talking to them directly, this is more information for folks to have if not in their minds, in their hearts as they talk to Republicans to help register them as Democrats..the man is not a monster at work and then all Lovey covey at home with the kids. He’s selfish, hurtful, did I mention selfish. He rapes young women before they know what happened. He’s been involved in all that trafficking. By involved I mean supportive and has knowledge. His part was higher up the chain. He doesn’t belong in polite or political or any kind of society. I’m beyond making light or hoping people won’t be offended by calling the deranged man what he is. I have strong memories of the left over war effort from WWII. Hitler and others in cartoons and the movies shown at dawn o’clock on Saturdays in the 50’s. Goose stepping ans saluting.The planned extermination of the Jews. I’m not scared, I’m angry. Trump opened and courted this door to Russia and China.
No point in beating this dead clown? Maybe. I think people are moving on by your comment, which is appreciated.
Writing about the wars is so tricky. The situation seems a bit more consistent and stable in what it is for the moment, frought with lies and misconceptions. High emotions. I too am rocking with the changes. I have the heart and the mind of my convictions but the atmosphere seems volatile even on Substack. When I have a voice to add to the more truly important news I’ll add it. My views match with so many who support both Israel and democracy but cry for what Bibi has not done and done. Most of which I’m blind to as are others but not all. I simply don’t know and can’t talk about it and certainly can’t defend a real need these days.
I’m here. If I’m not wring often, I’m still here and thing about it. 👋
I agree with everything you are saying. I just take it up to include the evils of corporations and their subservience to the capitalist structure creating millions of blood sucking ticks slowly draining the life out of the corpus humanity.
This includes oil companies, Amazon, banks, large agriculture companies, Nike, pro sports, world news organizations, now universities, coal companies, the entertainment industry, organized religions, and almost all big corporations.
It is an evil that will keep us at war and hating each other and I see no remedy.
I believe there is a complex of personality traits that are bent towards winning as a first priority. Then also use any method to prevail. One more layer… one mustn’t APPEAR to be acting differently or disingenuously.
Quick example. I knew a woman who worked for a huge bank - in the 70’s. She and a co worker were in a position to shave some tiny amount of a cent from who know s how many accounts. We lost touch. She told me in confidence, I don’t know but it’s the plan that matters anyway. I’m pretty sure she did it. Other point is, it does hurt others. Seems like not, so big payday. Small hurt to all seems tolerated while big hurt to a few is criminal. All criminal, the man gonna get ya for the big stuff though.
Unfortunately, yes we need a lot of people buying what they have to have--and don’t need--to keep not only our but China’s economy growing at a certain percentage growth rate. A percentage growth rate is an exponential growth rate and is always unstable unless supported by other variables such as bountiful resources to exploit.
As has been predicted for a long time, the greedy exploitation of Mother Earth is now biting all of us in the ass and the greedy choose to not see what is in front of them. Greed, religion, population growth will probably not destroy the world as there will be corrections like epidemics, wars, revolutions, natural calamities and the poor and defenseless will continue to suffer the brunt of the corrections.
Now imagine hundreds of different employees all taking a small bite. The summation of the little bites can eventually drain all accounts, especially small accounts.
So in our society the poor and the lower incomes people are more vulnerable to the multitude of blood sucking ticks. I’d guess corporate ticks are one of the reasons for rising homelessness especially two larger ticks know as the medical and pharmaceutical ticks. In addition, These two larger ticks are carriers of different infections some that bribe all politicians, others that flood all airwaves and forms of communications with lies called advertisements, advertisements that take advantage of psychology and marketing research to influence the behavior of the herds of people.
I recommend you have a look at Jessica DeFino and her The unpublishable. It's all about the world of cosmetics mostly the junk sold in drug stores and department stores but really talks about the way women in particular and now I see the sea of men wanting a better look from LGBTQ+ to the businessman who wants a close shave, manscapes, and might do some light foundation if it promises sun screen. It's what has come over us in a really only a decade or 15 years, the sector dabbles with surgery and botox, costs a fortune to maintain and is terrible for ones health. Now there is salesmanship. It's how Kimberly Gilfole and so many others go from very pretty woman first, a loss of perspective imho, and now closer to the weird cat lady of plastic surgery. What started in the 30's as a way to fix broken faces has turned into a quest for perfection from the Bronx to the Golden Gate. We don't have better ways to make jobs for people I guess. Everyone need money to buy stuff. Our jobs if you're not able to lift more than 50 pounds are hospitality, phones. Sales. We actually need the junk that kills us and the planet to sell so we can make the world go round?
Thank you for writing this. I believe I understand where you are coming from. However, even though I agree about how bad Trump is, I do not believe that focusing all our anger on trump helps us see the more underlying problems that is not only obvious. In Trump but is endemic in our society in general but also in humanity itself.
Trump is not the first or last crazy but is representative of a destructive and cancerous problem that has infected all history and most likely prehistory. To save humanity from ultimate destruction with all our weapons, I believe we--thoughtful people like you and hopefully me--need to become more cognizant of this underlying force of inherited and learned--think epigenetic--that always devolves into destructive tribalism.
As always, I recognize I may be totally full of shit.
I see some errors in what I wrote but this program does not allow me to edit. However, the essence of my response should still be clear. Fighting Trump and Trumpism is fighting a battle but not fighting the war.
Morning.
I wrote this piece as usual, with a need to answer the buzz I was hearing all day about the current court trial with the company etc. the noise about the lies. The constant single note of the media leaves a picture of the family that is incomplete. My thoughts include the human tragedy we are witnessing. The parade of lies and obfuscation we see is the clown show. There is real human cost too. I want people to have the correct impression. Crazy clown which I have supported till now for all of them. With the two wars looking as though in particular, Israel could easily spiral out of control for Bibi and all, I wanted to do a character sketch rather than news. I have some people on my thread that register voters. Although not talking to them directly, this is more information for folks to have if not in their minds, in their hearts as they talk to Republicans to help register them as Democrats..the man is not a monster at work and then all Lovey covey at home with the kids. He’s selfish, hurtful, did I mention selfish. He rapes young women before they know what happened. He’s been involved in all that trafficking. By involved I mean supportive and has knowledge. His part was higher up the chain. He doesn’t belong in polite or political or any kind of society. I’m beyond making light or hoping people won’t be offended by calling the deranged man what he is. I have strong memories of the left over war effort from WWII. Hitler and others in cartoons and the movies shown at dawn o’clock on Saturdays in the 50’s. Goose stepping ans saluting.The planned extermination of the Jews. I’m not scared, I’m angry. Trump opened and courted this door to Russia and China.
No point in beating this dead clown? Maybe. I think people are moving on by your comment, which is appreciated.
Writing about the wars is so tricky. The situation seems a bit more consistent and stable in what it is for the moment, frought with lies and misconceptions. High emotions. I too am rocking with the changes. I have the heart and the mind of my convictions but the atmosphere seems volatile even on Substack. When I have a voice to add to the more truly important news I’ll add it. My views match with so many who support both Israel and democracy but cry for what Bibi has not done and done. Most of which I’m blind to as are others but not all. I simply don’t know and can’t talk about it and certainly can’t defend a real need these days.
I’m here. If I’m not wring often, I’m still here and thing about it. 👋
I agree with everything you are saying. I just take it up to include the evils of corporations and their subservience to the capitalist structure creating millions of blood sucking ticks slowly draining the life out of the corpus humanity.
This includes oil companies, Amazon, banks, large agriculture companies, Nike, pro sports, world news organizations, now universities, coal companies, the entertainment industry, organized religions, and almost all big corporations.
It is an evil that will keep us at war and hating each other and I see no remedy.
It’s a behavior pattern for sure.
I believe there is a complex of personality traits that are bent towards winning as a first priority. Then also use any method to prevail. One more layer… one mustn’t APPEAR to be acting differently or disingenuously.
Quick example. I knew a woman who worked for a huge bank - in the 70’s. She and a co worker were in a position to shave some tiny amount of a cent from who know s how many accounts. We lost touch. She told me in confidence, I don’t know but it’s the plan that matters anyway. I’m pretty sure she did it. Other point is, it does hurt others. Seems like not, so big payday. Small hurt to all seems tolerated while big hurt to a few is criminal. All criminal, the man gonna get ya for the big stuff though.