The indoctrination is complete. Our collective imaginations and memories have been wiped. Not surprising since collectivity has been wiped, too. True individuality has been replaced with a simulation of individuality. If you don’t look too closely, you can’t see the pixels.
Liberals and conservatives — two sides of the same free market transaction. No one carries change anymore. Liberals are all we have left, conservatives are always right or never right. What happened? All these books talk about things that used to exist: socialism, communism, labor, worker’s parties, antiauthoritarians, anarchists, social democrats, progressive labor. Now the books talk about the left . What’s left?
Why do we have an 8-hour work day, 5-day work week, overtime pay, workers comp, child labor laws? Wealth inequality is at an all-time high. Can you even imagine a 3-day work week? It would kill the small businesses. Tell me the last riches-to-rags story you heard. Who’s Saint Monday?
Liberals fight for freedom and equality. Everyone has an equal right to be depressed. Everyone has an equal right to eat at McDonalds and drink Coke. Everyone has an equal right to kill the pain with opiates, for now at least.
Certain possibilities didn’t survive the compression algorithm. With a whimper, I guess. Does anyone remember when solidarity died? Is there anybody left?