The older I get the more I realize that American culture for the past 60 years has been nothing but grifters capitalizing on lazy consumerist suckers.
I know I'm not gonna fall for it but I'm done wasting my breath trying to stop everyone else. My family and I will be fine. That's all I have control over.
The older I get the more I realize that American culture for the past 60 years has been nothing but grifters capitalizing on lazy consumerist suckers.
Worse. Much worse. That would be bad enough, but this is grifters capturing the government (subsidies, mandates, protections, etc.) and using that to push their shit.
Grifters grifting directly to lazy consumerists would be a massive improvement. We're that far down the hole.
There was a quote from a century ago about how everything in America always turns into a grift or con after time. Can't remember the exact details of the quote. Even normies conservative outlets have been bringing up America being one big grift lately though.
Even early on the elite and merchants were breaking labor laws. American commerce has always relied upon cheap labor. The English stopped being the number one demographic way back in the late 1800s due to German and Irish immigration, who were used to settle uncharted territory. All of the bitching about black slavery ignores all of the white slaves that existed back then. And of course, during the wild West era cheap Chinese, Irish and African labor were used to build the railroads.
Read "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays. The rise of "public relations" (i.e. propaganda in the form of advertising) is responsible for driving this, and in that book Bernays gleefully preaches how that is a good thing (because those in power obviously know better than everyone else) and gives plenty of examples of the manipulative methods used to sell stuff.
The older I get the more I realize that American culture for the past 60 years has been nothing but grifters capitalizing on lazy consumerist suckers.
I know I'm not gonna fall for it but I'm done wasting my breath trying to stop everyone else. My family and I will be fine. That's all I have control over.
Worse. Much worse. That would be bad enough, but this is grifters capturing the government (subsidies, mandates, protections, etc.) and using that to push their shit.
Grifters grifting directly to lazy consumerists would be a massive improvement. We're that far down the hole.
There was a quote from a century ago about how everything in America always turns into a grift or con after time. Can't remember the exact details of the quote. Even normies conservative outlets have been bringing up America being one big grift lately though.
Even early on the elite and merchants were breaking labor laws. American commerce has always relied upon cheap labor. The English stopped being the number one demographic way back in the late 1800s due to German and Irish immigration, who were used to settle uncharted territory. All of the bitching about black slavery ignores all of the white slaves that existed back then. And of course, during the wild West era cheap Chinese, Irish and African labor were used to build the railroads.
The biggest grift of all is the US Dollar, where we pretend our green pieces of paper are equivalent to real commodities such as steel or oil.
They took the nation off the gold standard so they could manipulate the imaginary numbers however they please.
Read "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays. The rise of "public relations" (i.e. propaganda in the form of advertising) is responsible for driving this, and in that book Bernays gleefully preaches how that is a good thing (because those in power obviously know better than everyone else) and gives plenty of examples of the manipulative methods used to sell stuff.
Three guesses as to what the early life section of Bernays’ Wikipedia article says