Comments on: What Glenn Beck Can Teach Us About Consumerism http://moreminimal.com/2009/10/what-glenn-beck-can-teach-us-about-consumerism/ Making More of Less Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Uncle Bhttp://moreminimal.com/2009/10/what-glenn-beck-can-teach-us-about-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-563 Uncle B Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:24:22 +0000 http://moreminimal.com/?p=381#comment-563 The next, natural, and anticipated, down-cycle of the American capitalistic economy is likely to bring with it the greater depression, great suffering for the proletariat, sadness, deprivation to the peons, conscription in America, just to maintain the current military commitment Status Quo, a dollar so weak as to be almost worthless paper to the American citizen who will commonly see five, six and seven figures or more, on his credit cards, and find actual paper money too bulky to be convenient. We will drive Asian cars, European cars almost exclusively, and larger groups of "Unemployables" will collect in slums, soup kitchens, Hoovervilles, Tent cities, and on outskirts of large cities, hungry and cold, but doped up to passivity, and away from Anarchy, by new, permissive, weakly enforced, weed laws. Psycho-consumerism will live on for the very polarized and shrinking population of "Haves" and not exist at all, among the growing "Have Nots" in America. This gap is growing in eponential proportion as we speak. Prisons will fill until conditions, through cut backs by the well isolated, polarized "Haves" reach inhumane and disgusting proportions, and fewer poor seek shelter there. There will be fewer, but larger and more extravagant limousines on the roads, the smaller "Proletariat" cars, like the "Volt" will disappear entirely, and busing and bullet trains with factory dorms gaining popularity, will be the call of the day! Americans will serve, by the monthly contract, in semi-surfdom, in dormed factories, much as the old mining town bunkhouse system worked, then retire with their spoils to slums and remote survivalist shelters away from high cost of living areas, and recuperate, for their next exploitation session in the factories, much as the Chinese do today - all the while, the "Elite" haves will psycho-consume, and over-charge the bedraggled worker for even his crust of bread in the slums, and beat him out of every hard earned cent, forcing him back to the dorms, the bunkhouses of the factories after a short period of unemployment with little or no assistance, and much depravity, on his own! This cycle of misery is the new Uber-Rich Capitalist tool of exploitation used so successfully in Asia and China especially, by the new multi-national Capitalist and Corporatist "Elite" that now reside on the Beijing, Shanghai, and Hang Seng stock markets and will rule world commerce from their, with impunity from American law, or any law, and they do so today, smashing American patent laws, labor laws, union standards, and humane treatment regulations for the working class the world over! Only darkness awaits the obeise, spoiled, pampered, American workforce, they will compete with the efficient, veggie and rice fed, low maintenance costs, Asian semi-slavery or die horrible deaths in the slums of America, of disease and starvation - This has already come to be in America, don't trust my say-so, SEE: http://uprooted.jessicareeder.com/2009/09/detroit-and-the-100-dollar-house/comment-page-1/#comment-3003 God help us, the great hulking American laborers, Once the pride of America, now, Neanderthals of today's computer driven working world, now the "Legacy Workers" of a once strong and free America, lined up in soup kitchens, starving on low calorie diets we cannot survive on, begging for our daily bread, without medical care or decent living quarters, without adequate education, even without transportation, while our compatriots sell us out to the Asians, drive imported limosines and fancy sports cars, live in McMansions, and drink French wines, their children in private schools, their dogs eat more meat each day than we do, and we built this country in trust for them! Greater is the sorrow! Where did we go wrong? Glen Beck gently over-steps the true controversy, and elegantly avoids the real truth in America and for Capitalism and free trade! He gently builds his image while we dumpster dive, and go to bed cold and hungry - America's new reality, only a decade old and worsening by the moment! Thank You Glen, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. The next, natural, and anticipated, down-cycle of the American capitalistic economy is likely to bring with it the greater depression, great suffering for the proletariat, sadness, deprivation to the peons, conscription in America, just to maintain the current military commitment Status Quo, a dollar so weak as to be almost worthless paper to the American citizen who will commonly see five, six and seven figures or more, on his credit cards, and find actual paper money too bulky to be convenient. We will drive Asian cars, European cars almost exclusively, and larger groups of “Unemployables” will collect in slums, soup kitchens, Hoovervilles, Tent cities, and on outskirts of large cities, hungry and cold, but doped up to passivity, and away from Anarchy, by new, permissive, weakly enforced, weed laws. Psycho-consumerism will live on for the very polarized and shrinking population of “Haves” and not exist at all, among the growing “Have Nots” in America. This gap is growing in eponential proportion as we speak. Prisons will fill until conditions, through cut backs by the well isolated, polarized “Haves” reach inhumane and disgusting proportions, and fewer poor seek shelter there. There will be fewer, but larger and more extravagant limousines on the roads, the smaller “Proletariat” cars, like the “Volt” will disappear entirely, and busing and bullet trains with factory dorms gaining popularity, will be the call of the day! Americans will serve, by the monthly contract, in semi-surfdom, in dormed factories, much as the old mining town bunkhouse system worked, then retire with their spoils to slums and remote survivalist shelters away from high cost of living areas, and recuperate, for their next exploitation session in the factories, much as the Chinese do today – all the while, the “Elite” haves will psycho-consume, and over-charge the bedraggled worker for even his crust of bread in the slums, and beat him out of every hard earned cent, forcing him back to the dorms, the bunkhouses of the factories after a short period of unemployment with little or no assistance, and much depravity, on his own! This cycle of misery is the new Uber-Rich Capitalist tool of exploitation used so successfully in Asia and China especially, by the new multi-national Capitalist and Corporatist “Elite” that now reside on the Beijing, Shanghai, and Hang Seng stock markets and will rule world commerce from their, with impunity from American law, or any law, and they do so today, smashing American patent laws, labor laws, union standards, and humane treatment regulations for the working class the world over! Only darkness awaits the obeise, spoiled, pampered, American workforce, they will compete with the efficient, veggie and rice fed, low maintenance costs, Asian semi-slavery or die horrible deaths in the slums of America, of disease and starvation – This has already come to be in America, don’t trust my say-so, SEE: http://uprooted.jessicareeder.com/2009/09/detroit-and-the-100-dollar-house/comment-page-1/#comment-3003 God help us, the great hulking American laborers, Once the pride of America, now, Neanderthals of today’s computer driven working world, now the “Legacy Workers” of a once strong and free America, lined up in soup kitchens, starving on low calorie diets we cannot survive on, begging for our daily bread, without medical care or decent living quarters, without adequate education, even without transportation, while our compatriots sell us out to the Asians, drive imported limosines and fancy sports cars, live in McMansions, and drink French wines, their children in private schools, their dogs eat more meat each day than we do, and we built this country in trust for them! Greater is the sorrow! Where did we go wrong? Glen Beck gently over-steps the true controversy, and elegantly avoids the real truth in America and for Capitalism and free trade! He gently builds his image while we dumpster dive, and go to bed cold and hungry – America’s new reality, only a decade old and worsening by the moment! Thank You Glen, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

]]> By: David - green thoughtshttp://moreminimal.com/2009/10/what-glenn-beck-can-teach-us-about-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-561 David - green thoughts Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:54:49 +0000 http://moreminimal.com/?p=381#comment-561 Hi, Chris. Nice observations, you are right on target.I wonder whether Glenn Beck was "thoughtful" enough to require payment from the advertisers in order to be one of those shown in his "memory lane".Fortunately I have never heard that show, and barely heard the name of that fool. Hi, Chris. Nice observations, you are right on target.

I wonder whether Glenn Beck was “thoughtful” enough to require payment from the advertisers in order to be one of those shown in his “memory lane”.

Fortunately I have never heard that show, and barely heard the name of that fool.

]]> By: Chris Baskindhttp://moreminimal.com/2009/10/what-glenn-beck-can-teach-us-about-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Chris Baskind Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:38:15 +0000 http://moreminimal.com/?p=381#comment-757 It's hard to tell where he wanted to go with that. Away from us, I hope. ;-) It's hard to tell where he wanted to go with that. Away from us, I hope. ;-)

]]> By: chrisbaskindhttp://moreminimal.com/2009/10/what-glenn-beck-can-teach-us-about-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-586 chrisbaskind Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:38:15 +0000 http://moreminimal.com/?p=381#comment-586 It's hard to tell where he wanted to go with that. Away from us, I hope. ;-) It's hard to tell where he wanted to go with that. Away from us, I hope. ;-)

]]> By: Jeff McIntire-Strasburghttp://moreminimal.com/2009/10/what-glenn-beck-can-teach-us-about-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Jeff McIntire-Strasburg Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:12:00 +0000 http://moreminimal.com/?p=381#comment-555 This is a bit bizarre... I think the actual concept of simple living may be something that environmentalists and conservatives can find some common ground on... but this is just weird... This is a bit bizarre… I think the actual concept of simple living may be something that environmentalists and conservatives can find some common ground on… but this is just weird…

]]> By: uberVU - social commentshttp://moreminimal.com/2009/10/what-glenn-beck-can-teach-us-about-consumerism/comment-page-1/#comment-540 uberVU - social comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:45:55 +0000 http://moreminimal.com/?p=381#comment-540 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong>This post was mentioned on Friendfeed by Chris Baskind: Professional crybaby Glenn Beck takes a trip down memory lane -- only to arrive at Madison Avenue.... Social comments and analytics for this post…

This post was mentioned on Friendfeed by Chris Baskind: Professional crybaby Glenn Beck takes a trip down memory lane — only to arrive at Madison Avenue….

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