Sunday, August 22, 2010

Debt Slavery

Life in the industrialized world is predicated on debt. We buy our homes, our cars, our toys with money we do not have. Virtually everyone is in debt to one degree or another.

In poor area's of our communities we see all sorts of "lending institutions", all competing with each other for a slice of some poor schmoes debt. We have entire sectors of our economy built upon collecting debt from people, from Repo men, lawyers to the most hated of all debt collectors who literally drive people to suicide with their constant harassment.

Don't kid yourself and think that is where the problem of debt ends. Every middle class neighbourhood you see, or upper class area is full of debt. Those million dollar homes, giant SUV's pools etc, they don't pay for the themselves!

So we are all in debt, so what?!?! Debt robs the people of their power, you can't afford to take action, to protest, to be active in your community for fear of losing what little we actually own! Debt is fear, debt is what keeps the masses down, debt is the new opiate of the masses. Where religion was once the tool to keep the people passive, it is now debt.

We can't afford to do anything to fix our societies, we can't afford to stand up and say enough is enough, because we are all scared.

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