On Politics and the endless spin on things

Prices keep soaring, especially stapple food, the basics. They keep talking about it in the news, they even gave the crisis a fancy name: credit crunch. That sounds way cooler than “corporations are thieves” don’t you think? How funny to think that the crisis intensified roughly one year before the Games in China and that as we approach the opening ceremony prices are going even higher... I mean, let’s face it,olympic games
cost a fortune, especially in countries still developing and already in debt like all the rest, and there are the rich fat cats coming to town that will need feeding... I like how politicians keep warning US of hard times ahead, yet the next day they give away millions, if not billions, they don’t even have to “help” struggling countries...I’d say nothing if only that money reached the populations that need it but it’s more likely to be used to build new bloody gold toilet seats for corrupt officials than anything else. There isn’t much to unveil diving into my void but I wouldn’t recommend that of people higher in the chain; there must be tons of skeletons half-buried down there. 

But hey, aren’t we, us poor sods, dispensable at the end of the day? Of course we are. The truth is every single person is. The difference is that for those in power, those who wield any kind of power over others, they have the option to become indispensable in the eyes of a majority. They can protect themselves from what they impose on us and because they are so far removed from our daily hardships they see us as little more than human cattle that can always reproduce to make up for the loss. In the greater scheme of life there is always a chain. Cats will feed on the fish and the birds, the lion on other herbivorous animals, maggots will feed on rotten food...We feed on many animals but just like we use a cow in many ways to our own benefit we use other people in pretty much the same way. A cow is a wonderful creation of nature: it produces milk and we can make so much out of it...Well, the same can be said of people in power over the little people. It makes me laugh that we fight viruses so much for they really are our most fearsome predators and boy are they resilient and adaptable! Viruses are a plague to humans just like humans are the virus of our planet. It only seems fitting that both virus and man always clash.

By the way, the price of bread- the edible kind- is now at least a pound and the cheapest one that used to cost barely more than 0.18p because of its rotten quality has now skyrocketted to over 50p... Pasta can be bought for no less than 78p when three months ago the same pack would have cost you around 40p max. The funniest thing is how supermarkets can now dictate what you’re going to eat for the week... How thoughtful of them to slash prices on selected products every now and then, meaning that if you were to go shopping on a restricted budget you’d end up buying whatever they have been kind enough to reduce in price. So last week I was able to eat cherry tomatoes, peppers, pizza, mushrooms...This week I might get apples, cucumber and whatnot, but cherry tomatoes will be back to their crazy price. It will be rather interesting to see what happens with meat, since they’re introducing cloned meat on the market that doesn’t even have to be labelled as such. They couldn’t honestly tell us because of course very few people would buy it. Call this democracy if you wish, I call this another sham. There is no such thing as democracy, there’s only an illusion of it, a word or notion that’s little more than an ideal. 

What we take for democracy is in fact an intricate propaganda machine that seems to give freedom from one end and take everything else from the other: that is NOT democracy. That’s taking people for morrons.

The truth is that if I don’t start playing the game I’ll end up losing anyway. I’ll remain a prisoner because I am poor. Poor people have no voice, not even in so-called western countries. Oh, they do feel sometimes like they have one but it is a carefully monitored stream of voices controlled from above. Who needs a God when we have puppet masters?