[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The only thing that bugs me a bit is that there seems to be some idea that anyone actually "has it good" . There is a tiny minority of individuals (not "white men" ffs, I'm talking about a TINY minority of < 1 million people in a world of 7 billion) who hold all of the power, all of the influence, and all of the real freedom. The rest of us scrabble for the various scraps that are allowed to us. Do some get a few more scraps than others? Sure. But it's all just scraps. Ants in an ant farm squabbling over who got the extra grain of rice, ignoring the fact that every last one of us is being ****ed over, every single day. But of course, that's exactly how they want / need us to be.

Definitely..its what 'they' want for sure. It works too..always. Look at how they are setting younger people against the 'baby boomers'. Older people now think younger are lazy bastards who waste every penny on iphones where as if they didn't drink costa for a year they could buy a house outright (like they did in their youth). Where young people blame the world ills on older people and are bitter that the older ones 'had it easy'.

Its all so sad, and just a neverending circle.

Mind its impossible to go after those who truly are 'elite' compared to us mere plebs. So squabble among ourselves we do...

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The only thing that bugs me a bit is that there seems to be some idea that anyone actually "has it good" . There is a tiny minority of individuals (not "white men" ffs, I'm talking about a TINY minority of < 1 million people in a world of 7 billion) who hold all of the power, all of the influence, and all of the real freedom. The rest of us scrabble for the various scraps that are allowed to us. Do some get a few more scraps than others? Sure. But it's all just scraps. Ants in an ant farm squabbling over who got the extra grain of rice, ignoring the fact that every last one of us is being ****ed over, every single day. But of course, that's exactly how they want / need us to be.

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Definitely..its what 'they' want for sure. It works too..always. Look at how they are setting younger people against the 'baby boomers'. Older people now think younger are lazy bastards who waste every penny on iphones where as if they didn't drink costa for a year they could buy a house outright (like they did in their youth). Where young people blame the world ills on older people and are bitter that the older ones 'had it easy'.

Its all so sad, and just a neverending circle.

Mind its impossible to go after those who truly are 'elite' compared to us mere plebs. So squabble among ourselves we do...

But then all of those "lucky" boomers who do own their own homes and fell into jobs with decent salaries (which a lot did) are NOT happy... If anything, a content pig in a cage is even more advantageous than one who is broken and angry. Content day to day. Docile. A docile piggy is a quiet piggy... but chip off the veneer and most of those "happy boomers" are unfulfilled, low-level alcoholics, desperately trying to fill their lives with distraction just like the rest of us. Home improvement for a pretty cage. Third cruise in a year to get the **** out of the pretty cage for a little while and feel alive (drunk on the all inclusive). I think people inherently feel that it's a ****ing shambles but they can't piece it together and so they argue about this, and this, and this and that and desperately try to tell themselves that everything is fine because it's "good enough" and they have it "better than some" while they slide passively into their coffins. **** it, I keep saying "they". I should be saying "we". I'm one of them. I see all of this SO clearly but I don't have the energy to do anything about it.

The world needs to stand up and absolutely ****ing rage but we won't. Not ever.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

But then all of those "lucky" boomers who do own their own homes and fell into jobs with decent salaries (which a lot did) are NOT happy... If anything, a content pig in a cage is even more advantageous than one who is broken and angry. Content day to day. Docile. A docile piggy is a quiet piggy... but chip off the veneer and most of those "happy boomers" are unfulfilled, low-level alcoholics, desperately trying to fill their lives with distraction just like the rest of us. Home improvement for a pretty cage. Third cruise in a year to get the **** out of the pretty cage for a little while and feel alive (drunk on the all inclusive). I think people inherently feel that it's a ****ing shambles but they can't piece it together and so they argue about this, and this, and this and that and desperately try to tell themselves that everything is fine because it's "good enough" and they have it "better than some" while they slide passively into their coffins. **** it, I keep saying "they". I should be saying "we". I'm one of them.

The world needs to stand up and absolutely ****ing rage but we won't. Not ever.

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