Adam's Myth: The Wealth of corpoNations.

                                                 Free Market economics needs to be Halo-weaned: 

                                                       Their dark side is that they need enslaved populations

                           to keep the Markets free.

"I've put a Spell on You" ... and now You're mined.

It's a strange thing how a myth can take hold of a people. How a fantasy that is in everyway rebuked by the everyday anyday of spending all day building a doomsday machine via a Wehrmacht more firmly entrenched and more Corporate-run by mega-behemoths umbilically tied to a State that pours vast sums of taxpayer funds into black holes of Private Profiteering from fears stoked so as to wrest the sanctioning of secret munitions engineering and other forms of radioactive radio-silenced indefinite war preparation, planning for the World Without's end, can yet be called a "Free Market". One to which we must give our utter obeisance to or be labelled "Commie", a full generation and a half after the dissolution of the USSR, and despite the uncomfortable reality that the largest, most long-lasting Communist regime, one most obdurately opposed to allowing markets free reign, nor their citizens free speech, is our largest trading partner and largest purchaser of our debt.

Lillian Smith one called slavery, "The Dance that cripples the Human Spirit", and as the world seems lately to be under the spell cast by the Sanderson Sisters in the movie Hocus Pocus, it keeps dancing to a tune that promises to keep it doing so until it drops: The Siren song of the "free" market, whose costs are so onerous, the entire globe is in a program of never-ending slavery, ostensibly labelled "austerity", but in reality corpo-rationing, in order to keep the market that is enslaving it free.

As progressives and conservatives alike kowtow to the vicissitudes demanded by the shamelessly manipulated free market, one would think that at least a smattering of them would  have read the tome that was published the same year as the Revolutionary War broke out in the BRITISH colonies, 1776; the tome: The Wealth of Nations.

Not Corponations, but Nations.

Yet, once there is unrestricted flow of capital over national borders, there is no more nation. All the savings of the populace are not savings at all, but the property of the  propertied, to risk and lose, to use to dance and booze (the attitude of the investor class that using OPM is as intoxicating as an alcoholic romp is so taken for granted that they can use the metaphor of a punchbowl as a symbol for Fed largess with a completely straight  face and with absolutely no need for dissimulation ... they're that sure of our stupidity and helplessness; an assurance we re-enforce time and again by proving them right. Thus has the moronic phrase, "It is what it is," entered the lexicon of the masses as reaction to anything they simply accept (and wish you would do the same), with neither analysis nor comment, as "What's the use?" is really what they're saying. "You want to complain?!, look at these shoes, I've only had them for three weeks ...").

Point of interest: despite the caravan that's approaching the US border for exactly the Right to Work that Capital has deprived them of, there has been nary a question as to why capital, which is all-powerful, has the right to unrestricted flows over national borders, but the workers who create that capital via their labor, are imprisoned within the Nations that call them citizens. Why is there a global enforcement of freedom of capital to move wherever it can to exploit the unrepresented workers of Communist States, States that forcefully prevent their exit should they wish to carry THEIR capital across borders, yet those workers can't freely cross borders to go where the jobs are? In other words Capital demands there be a free market for everything except labor, which is pinned down to its local position while the Wealth of entire Nations is free for Corporations to abscond with, even should it leave those who generated it penniless.


Thus can the richest country in the world demand that Mexico, one of the poorest, bear the burden of housing the refugees the richest one's Corpobosses have created: Since Capital can pour freely over borders, labor must have that same freedom to follow where opportunity leads. Middle-class Americans have no idea what that means, but people in the caravan do. What does THAT say about America's educational system?

 MAGA makes the caravan inevitable: Its stated plan is to become great, and greatness is only achieved in relation to others. A Great America, since its greatness is not in its moral standing, certainly not its generosity, since compassion is derided by the so-called Christians who are the administration's most ardent supporters, it can't be that, nor is its greatness to be derived from its free institutions, such as a free press, that this administration has called the enemy of the people to such a public and large extent that his best buddies on the world stage feel free to massacre and dismember anyone who belongs to the news organization he trumpeted his animosity toward both said organization AND its Owner not a week previously, so that all of those things which most of us had considered to be what actually does make America great have been dragged through the mud, we know it's all considered mere trumpery  by the very person who claims his plan is to restore America's greatness, only leave two things: its military greatness, and its economic sway over other Nations' economies, via adroit manipulation of its currency, which, being the World's reserve Currency, is the very definition of bullying.

And as America launches its trade war, and screams bloody murder over the expansion of the Chinese military, not a voice is raised to point out that neither China's economic miracle nor its military adventurism would be possible if it weren't for US corporations seizing the wealth of the US middle class and using it to build up the pre-eminent Communist country in the world's infrastructure, industries, and military might, none of which would exist without the trillions of dollars of labor-generated profits that were plowed into it. Profits then used to undermine the political might of that burgeoning middle class, given the possibility of the current sadminstration's (sic) existence: had the middle class, and the middle of the country, not been first abandoned, then betrayed, then China would now have nothing but a minor position in the world. It was the Corponation of the United States that purposely created a bulwark against Democracy in this homogeneous One Party communist dictatorship.

Tanks fired on Bicyclists: there were few cars in China in 1989.

 

 

 

 

It's impossible to compete in a free market when the laborers from the competing country are in constant state of terror. If workers strike, they trigger an airstrike being used to silence their uppity selves, so CorpoNations, salivating over the profits to be derived from an enslaved population with zero ability to protest the fouling of their air, the poisoning of their water and the clearing out of the countryside, poured investment into the Communist country even while they fulminated against Communism to get the military funding to fight against it even as they simultaneously funded the country that was its last bastion.

You don't need, given the "It is what it is" shoulder shrug of the US proles, any conspiracy theories to figure this one out: it's right there in front of our faces, yet never never never do you hear a whisper about this Corpotheft as they describe the dislocated workers from yet another besieged "sovereign" nation as an "invading force". But as the tear gas canisters begin to fly, it's apparent that the force is all on the other side, and no one will raise their voice against it, as it is the side of Market Forces, wielding Armed Forces against an unarmed labor force, and one dare not tilt at those rigged windmills.