Greetings good citizen,
Welcome to the one thousandth post of A Simple Plan! Truth be told I haven’t been keeping track. Blogger tells me when this one hits the net; it will be labeled as post number one thousand.
So whoop de do, good citizen!
And I suppose one thousand posts would be as good a time as any to restate the reason why this blog even exists.
Regular readers may remember me from the original blogger, which, back then, billed itself as a ‘get paid to write site’ based on the popularity of what you wrote. I didn’t go by my current handle then but I’m still pedaling the same ‘ideology’ I was then. So we’re talking the mid-nineties.
Which is to point out that there are a lot more than a thousand posts possibly triple that amount, maybe more.
Like I said, I’m not keeping track.
Posted on Daily Kos for a couple of years before the Libertarians chased me off in that heavily polluted pool, then I joined Conceptual Guerilla and stayed there for about three years.
For the record there is no ‘bad blood’ between Joe and me, he told me he wanted to take the site in a different direction and I respected his request, stopped posting there and started posting here, end of story.
Which brings us back to today and the 1,000th post here.
Same shit, different venue.
But, naturally, (and for me it appears to be consistent thing) I digress…
I was going to explain ‘why’ (my reason) this blog exists, what makes Gegner write?
Um, to say I was born ‘disadvantaged’ would be both an understatement and an exaggeration.
I was never hungry or naked. In this respect I am MUCH ‘luckier’ than my ‘third world’ counterparts who were born (and died) in war torn hellholes where they never stood a chance.
But I found myself at the bottom of the food chain, born to a crippled and uneducated father who had no ‘trade’ to pass on to me.
Ironically, since my ‘trade’ got off-shored, I have nothing to pass on to my son either, an outcome that I find, er, ‘worrisome’.
But it’s not just MY kid who will find himself behind the eight ball when he graduates High School in a couple of years, he’ll have plenty of company.
So this is not a ‘woe is me’ platform where I cry foul for the advantages I never enjoyed because that’s not the point.
This post (and the multitude before it) exists to prove the meme of ‘there’s nothing out there better than capitalism’ is a boldfaced lie!
But is it a lie if you can’t prove there IS a ‘better way?’
Some would say A Simple Plan is ‘unprecedented’ and therefore, ‘unproven’. I would counter that the Native Americans lived under something very close to A Simple Plan and their society flourished for centuries longer than any European civilization ever did!
Um, the more astute would ask how lucky I am to arrive on the scene just as Capitalism enters its death throes?
As you have seen repeated here countless times, nobody can survive in an ‘economic desert’ and capitalism has turn the whole world into a gigantic one with only sporadic oases of wealth scattered around the globe.
It really does boil down to the question of whether civilization exists to help all humans prosper or if it exists to make a few humans wildly prosperous?
We know how things have turned out but we also know this isn’t ‘as advertised’.
Worse, we continue to believe that ‘someday’ it will be ‘our turn’ to live in the big house and play with all of the ‘toys’ until we die…
As irrational as that ‘belief’ is.
Since this model is ‘unsustainable’ it will invariably collapse, and what is poised to replace it, so far, ain’t looking to, er, ‘equitable’.
Part of my ‘goal’ is to point the way to a more equitable future. The rest is centered on raising awareness of the eminent failure of the lifestyle we have all become accustomed to.
The ones who have buttered their bread on both sides are expecting a reasonably smooth transition from their self-destructing ‘free-state’ to the all-powerful slave state.
Which should explain why our bought and paid for politicians are sitting there ‘twiddling their thumbs’ as (what passes for) our justice system sits there, inert.
We all KNOW our civilization is rushing headlong off a cliff, NO ONE denies this, not even the corporate owned media but only a hand full know that this no accident.
That handful has only THEIR best interests in mind, you get what you get (and only after they have determined you deserve it.)
We MUST hunt them down and cast them out or our species is doomed, good citizen.
Some of you think it’s not possible and the simple minded think it’s not desirable but I tell you that the ‘parasites’ among us exist only at the top of our civilization!
Some of you recognize this and it is my intention to show you that you are not alone, others only suspect and it is my purpose is to show you that your suspicions are correct.
If we fail to identify the enemy, they WILL defeat us.
And that’s your ‘thought to ponder’ on this 1,000th post
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Welcome to the one thousandth post of A Simple Plan! Truth be told I haven’t been keeping track. Blogger tells me when this one hits the net; it will be labeled as post number one thousand.
So whoop de do, good citizen!
And I suppose one thousand posts would be as good a time as any to restate the reason why this blog even exists.
Regular readers may remember me from the original blogger, which, back then, billed itself as a ‘get paid to write site’ based on the popularity of what you wrote. I didn’t go by my current handle then but I’m still pedaling the same ‘ideology’ I was then. So we’re talking the mid-nineties.
Which is to point out that there are a lot more than a thousand posts possibly triple that amount, maybe more.
Like I said, I’m not keeping track.
Posted on Daily Kos for a couple of years before the Libertarians chased me off in that heavily polluted pool, then I joined Conceptual Guerilla and stayed there for about three years.
For the record there is no ‘bad blood’ between Joe and me, he told me he wanted to take the site in a different direction and I respected his request, stopped posting there and started posting here, end of story.
Which brings us back to today and the 1,000th post here.
Same shit, different venue.
But, naturally, (and for me it appears to be consistent thing) I digress…
I was going to explain ‘why’ (my reason) this blog exists, what makes Gegner write?
Um, to say I was born ‘disadvantaged’ would be both an understatement and an exaggeration.
I was never hungry or naked. In this respect I am MUCH ‘luckier’ than my ‘third world’ counterparts who were born (and died) in war torn hellholes where they never stood a chance.
But I found myself at the bottom of the food chain, born to a crippled and uneducated father who had no ‘trade’ to pass on to me.
Ironically, since my ‘trade’ got off-shored, I have nothing to pass on to my son either, an outcome that I find, er, ‘worrisome’.
But it’s not just MY kid who will find himself behind the eight ball when he graduates High School in a couple of years, he’ll have plenty of company.
So this is not a ‘woe is me’ platform where I cry foul for the advantages I never enjoyed because that’s not the point.
This post (and the multitude before it) exists to prove the meme of ‘there’s nothing out there better than capitalism’ is a boldfaced lie!
But is it a lie if you can’t prove there IS a ‘better way?’
Some would say A Simple Plan is ‘unprecedented’ and therefore, ‘unproven’. I would counter that the Native Americans lived under something very close to A Simple Plan and their society flourished for centuries longer than any European civilization ever did!
Um, the more astute would ask how lucky I am to arrive on the scene just as Capitalism enters its death throes?
As you have seen repeated here countless times, nobody can survive in an ‘economic desert’ and capitalism has turn the whole world into a gigantic one with only sporadic oases of wealth scattered around the globe.
It really does boil down to the question of whether civilization exists to help all humans prosper or if it exists to make a few humans wildly prosperous?
We know how things have turned out but we also know this isn’t ‘as advertised’.
Worse, we continue to believe that ‘someday’ it will be ‘our turn’ to live in the big house and play with all of the ‘toys’ until we die…
As irrational as that ‘belief’ is.
Since this model is ‘unsustainable’ it will invariably collapse, and what is poised to replace it, so far, ain’t looking to, er, ‘equitable’.
Part of my ‘goal’ is to point the way to a more equitable future. The rest is centered on raising awareness of the eminent failure of the lifestyle we have all become accustomed to.
The ones who have buttered their bread on both sides are expecting a reasonably smooth transition from their self-destructing ‘free-state’ to the all-powerful slave state.
Which should explain why our bought and paid for politicians are sitting there ‘twiddling their thumbs’ as (what passes for) our justice system sits there, inert.
We all KNOW our civilization is rushing headlong off a cliff, NO ONE denies this, not even the corporate owned media but only a hand full know that this no accident.
That handful has only THEIR best interests in mind, you get what you get (and only after they have determined you deserve it.)
We MUST hunt them down and cast them out or our species is doomed, good citizen.
Some of you think it’s not possible and the simple minded think it’s not desirable but I tell you that the ‘parasites’ among us exist only at the top of our civilization!
Some of you recognize this and it is my intention to show you that you are not alone, others only suspect and it is my purpose is to show you that your suspicions are correct.
If we fail to identify the enemy, they WILL defeat us.
And that’s your ‘thought to ponder’ on this 1,000th post
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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