This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

How will we explain the absence of a future for our children? The automation and sublimation of society which has been improved by the arts of science and machine, that no longer needs them or wants them. Where the music is all written by AI and movies are three-hour cartoons created by CGI. Singing songs glorifying a capitalism of which they are locked out of. Ask anyone in the know about new cars and they will tell you, they are crap. Cheap cars or expensive cars, all crap. Underpowered and overpriced. Filled with gimmicks and gadgets and lacking in durability.

A corporatized media which never questions anything. Who wouldn’t tell you about Ludwig Von Mises even at gunpoint. Their secret Santa, their lord of the flies. In their Bible of self-justification. It’s really very simple and requires no stone tablets for direction or explanation. Simply put; there are no rights. You have no rights. It’s all imaginary and made up. Only property rights are real. And since they own all the property, why don’t you just shut up. I’m sure you’ve heard their mantra, “Taxation is theft.” Husker do? Do you understand? They say taxation is theft because it is their world alone, not yours. And you have no right to take from them. According to them, you have no rights at all, period.

They can rape children if they want to because it’s their world and children have no rights. They can rape the environment because you have no rights. Trump cuts off AID to the world and children starve. Because to them. We have enough children in this world. Let them eat…nothing! Let them starve in their shithole country. The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt bought up the farmer’s grain and stored it away against famine. It kept the farmers viable when a good crop drove down prices. But our modern Pharaohs have no such obligation to help anyone, but themselves. If the farmers go broke, that’s just too bad, isn’t it?

In ruby red Nebraska, Tyson foods is closing a meat packing plant. Because they want to. Decimating the town of Lexington, Nebraska. The red state politicians offer solace and kind words. You know, we’re all Nebraskans and when times get hard, we all stick together. Because we’re tough and don’t shirk in the face of adversity. In other words, you’re on your own. Thoughts and prayers everybody! Thoughts and prayers.

Why should they support education? Taxation is theft. Besides, an ignorant, uneducated mob is easier to sway. There is a TV commercial for Cascade dishwashing soap where a grown woman finishes her meal and wipes her mouth with the back of her hand, like a bum or a field hand. A kid licks his plate in a display of unrefined crass peasantry. Dignity or table manners? What’s that? Watch closely and see how you are portrayed by the media. As stupid, inept, slow-witted and always needing help. You can’t walk a dog or fix a flat tire without help.

Why should billionaires be forced to pay for a new sports stadium? Let the little people pay. Then we can charge hundreds of dollars for a ticket, which they will never be able to afford. They won’t even be able to watch the game on TV, unless they are willing to shell out. The fans and the cities are meaningless, and if the billionaires don’t get what they want, they will pack their bags and move to somewhere else. They welcome organized gambling into their sports because it means more money. Even if it destroys the game.

Scandals in baseball, basketball, and college football are all neatly suppressed and disregarded. I no longer trust the NFL. I’ve seen too many miraculous comebacks. Too many catches that were ruled not catches. Too many passes called fumbles and too many fumbles called passes. Announcers screaming like the Hindenburg disaster over first down and ten. Color men on staff to explain to you what you just watched. Like yesterday’s weather report. “His legs make good decisions. I bet they worked on that play in practice. Reciting meaningless statistics and endless instant replays, making the game tedious and tiresome.

A completely lawless criminal for a chief executive. A craven congress and a complicit and purchased court system. Trump pardons 1,500 violent criminals on day one, and then tells you about Joe Biden’s autopen. Trump pardons one of the largest drug smugglers ever captured and then murders fishermen who were not charged, not arrested, but murdered as alleged drug smugglers. The media focus on the second missile strike, when the first strike was murder! We aren’t at war with Venezuela! Congress hasn’t authorized any military action. The United Nations hasn’t issued any decrees and the world court is silent.

What they do to someone else’s children today. They will do to your children tomorrow. Law and justice have ceased to exist. You’re guilty, if they say you are, and Perry Mason couldn’t save you. Of course, if you could afford Perry Mason. You wouldn’t be charged in the first place. Money gives you rights and poverty gives you a good swift kick in the ass.

The state of Kentucky gave Ford Motor Company two hundred and fifty million tax dollars to build a new factory. You see, the states must now bid, hat in hand, against each other for new jobs. Ford took the money and promised 5,000 new jobs by 2027. Aw, but gee, business hasn’t so good lately. So Ford will keep the money and lay off half the workers. Sound fair to you? Ford makes a mistake and the people of Kentucky get to pay for it. Of course it’s fair. Ford has rights and the citizens of Kentucky don’t.

What will we tell our children? Will they even care? What does a future even mean to them if it’s no good and not coming, anyway?

“When we went to tell him our grievances, he said we were all his “children.” Pullman, both the man and the town, is an ulcer on the body politic. He owns the houses, the schoolhouses, and churches of God in the town he gave his once humble name. The revenue he derives from these, the wages he pays out with one hand—the Pullman Palace Car Company, he takes back with the other—the Pullman Land Association. He is able by this to bid under any contract car shop in this country. His competitors in business, to meet this, must reduce the wages of their men. This gives him the excuse to reduce ours to conform to the market. His business rivals must in turn scale down; so must he. And thus the merry war— the dance of skeletons bathed in human tears—goes on, and it will go on, brothers, forever, unless you, the American Railway Union, stop it; end it; crush it out.” – Eugene Debs

“Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live- for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live- for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken. And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept…” ― John Steinbeck.