And that concept of “safety” belies a deeper, more unsettling truth about the oligarchy: that the waste of dollars on maintaining their power structures undermines the technological progress we could be making instead of the paltry progress we are currently making.
For example, it is well-known that obesity and smoking are epidemic. They exert unparalleled drag on the economy and health status of the nation, trillions of dollars worth. And yet, public health dollars are scarce to fight them and put them back into proportion to the population.
Why? Because those dollars go to supporting the war machine and the business interests of the oligarchy controlling the legislatures that vote on the appropriations.
Until the oligarchs are overthrown, we have only our wits to help us survive. They don’t care about you and me. They don’t want you to have opportunities and a happy life. They want your compliance and your sweat and money, so that they can have happy lives.
Don’t give it to them. Don’t play their game. Play your own game, even if it means poverty in an external sense. I could go on and on and on about this, but I’ll save it for other threads. There are ways to play your own game and not starve, and also not feed the monsters… gotta get wise to their system and outplay it…
