State of the Union Address

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1984, Auschwitz, collectivism, freedom, Government, inaugural speech, Obama, Orwell, Politics, Social Security, socialism

America has been in quite a decline in the last four years.  There are many indicators, yet I’d like to point out one in particular: the differences between the first and second inaugural addresses of Obama.

In both, one can see the obvious appeal to America’s “glorious” past and the greatness of its people. In the first, one sees a number of concerns to the citizens, such as health care costs, etc. Yet, the first is spoken more to Americans as individuals and that the greatness of the nation springs from them.

In the second, something else is raising its ugly head into full view : collectivism/socialism. This is apparent in such phrasing as “the preserving of individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.”

Upon a closer reading, one will find many of these things could have been written in Orwell’s 1984 as declarations made by the various Ministries:

Ministry of Peace (War) : “America…will renew the institutions that extend our capacity to manage crises abroad, for none has a greater stake in a PEACEFUL world than its most POWERFUL nation.”

Ministry of Plenty : “Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they do not make us a nation of takers.”

Ministry of Truth : “A decade of war is ending. An economic recovery has begun.”, “A free market only thrives when there are rules” , and “Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be cured through government alone.”

The Ministry of Love is in full swing since the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act which allows for indefinite detention of Americans without trial.

Last, and not least, let’s recall these words : “the wages of honest labor liberate(s) families from the brink of hardship”, “we must empower our citizens…to work harder” so that our nation “rewards the effort and determination of every single American.”

  Doesn’t this remind one of the slogan placed over the entrance of the German concentration camp, Auschwitz? : “Arbeit macht frei” or “Work will make you free”.

Work Makes Free

Mental Strike!

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Anarchy, atheism, freedom, Government, liberty, Politics, Religion, Slavery

Very few men can actually say that they live a free life. Nearly the only ones who can make that claim are those that attempt to live freely at the edges of this society of slavery, or those that live atop this grandest of pyramid schemes. The Pharaohs of old still build their monuments today. The building blocks are no longer of sandstone, but of every material and of every man, woman, and child. The one thing that hasn’t changed is that they build themselves above the masses by the once blatant, but now more gossamer threads that most refuse to see.

Our bodies have been sold into this modern slavery. We toil for our lives in the pretense of liberty; but, ultimately, we have become slaves of this machine. We have been chained to it by the bold lie of democracy; and, as of old, we are bound to it by the ties of family and sociability. And yes, our parents have unwittingly sold us into this bondage. To break these physical binding of slavery is quite difficult; and yet, there is a more difficult battle to be won.

That battle is the one being waged for your mind. The absolutely best slave is the one who believes he is free. Most go through life believing the stories they’ve been told. If we were free, we would not have to hear the propaganda on a near daily basis. This is why our children are herded into the public education system. This is why the national faith (were it not so!) encourages the submission to the “powers that be”. These powers that steal from the would be free Peter to aid the collective Paul.

It is bad enough that our bodies are used to lubricate the wheels of slavery. Let us not use up our minds by improving upon the machine so efficiently grinding up our lives and loves into dusty servitude. Let us remove our minds from their equation, and add them to a mental strike. Let our minds be on strike, so that the state will eventually fail, as it slows by its terrible inefficiency and collapses under its own weight as an obese elephant being carried by a pale and sickly mule.

Pretense Will Get You There

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Dumbo, Economy, Lies, money, Perpetual Motion, Pinocchio, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Sonnet, Tigger, Tinkerbell

Forget the fairy dust, for flying wanes.
The magic clay malignantly will ground
The deftly, dumb and blind to lower planes
To meet Leviathan of Fiscal Sound.
Perhaps the Tigger, bounding and rebound
Can show the moneyed men impossibly
The way to float the dollar and the pound
By printing on perpet machinery.
But wait, the answer lies quite truthfully,
For loose-lipped donkey, clumsy mastodon,
So fast to soar with ears outspread,  Hear me!
Is where to pin the tail to drive it on.
It is the time to practice what you speak
And lie your ass off on the puppet’s peak!