"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed...don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live." —John Yossarian from "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller
For those of us here in the Belly of the Beast who were weaned, raised, and educated on her toxic mix of capitalism and propaganda, the word "revolution" automatically conjures up images of The American Revolutionary War. But as Dmitry Orlov points out; "The American Revolution wasn't a revolution at all because the slave-owning, genocidal sponsors of international piracy remained in power under the new administration." In the end, after all the bodies had been buried, King George was out, President George was in, and it was business as usual among the wealthy upper crust, their underlings, and the slaves. An actual revolution requires a change in ideology. The main change here was in the profit margins. No more pesky taxes to pay to the British Crown. This was no revolution. More like just a bloody rebellion against upper management.
Today's multi-national slave-owners know no borders. Fascism (the merger of state and corporate power, by Mussolini's own definition) has swiftly and stealthily become the world-wide status quo. So-called democracy now boils down to a choice between a swift kick in the ass or a sharp stick in the eye. Countries refusing to comply with the rules of the game are poked, prodded, hounded, bribed, raped, murdered, and bombed until they cry "uncle" and start toeing the line. The underlings (middle class) and impoverished (slaves) are merging into one vast human commodity. On the new level playing field of Fascism, there are just two classes; slave-owners and slave laborers. Ethnicity, nationality, and religion perform no function other than to distract the minions of slaves, playing them against each other, lest they notice their owners behind the curtain, pulling the levers and controlling media misinformation while playing patriotic songs, maintaining a constant state of warfare, carrying on a seemingly odd combination of drug distribution and a war against drugs, polluting food, water, and air, and poisoning children's minds while picking slave pockets clean of the last few remnants of wealth. Zbigniew Brezinski, may he burn in Hell, one of the top poster boys for the beast called Fascism, described the situation concisely and accurately; "People, governments, and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations." Emphasis on "must", and not included, but implied; "or else".
Paddy Chayefsky's brilliant script for the movie Network (1976), includes this memorable speech by Ned Beatty (as Megacorp CEO Arthur Jensen), learning the self-appointed prophet of the airwaves (Beale, played by Peter Finch), that "the world is a corporation, and that money is everything." Art imitating life imitating art. All that talk about patriotism, nationality, heroism, means nothing to these people.
"The World is a Business Mr Beale"
In "Catch 22" John Yossarian found himself in a paradoxical double bind. As a U.S. Army B-25 bombardier stationed in Europe during World War II, he had come to consider his commanding officers the true enemies. Each mission flown looked like it might be the last, as his fellow pilots were being shot from the sky, their numbers dwindling daily. Yossarian had no aspirations to become a dead hero, but the only apparent way to avoid duty was to be declared crazy and be grounded. There was only one catch, and that was Catch 22. It stated that any pilot making application to be declared mentally unfit for duty was showing a perfectly rational concern for his own safety, and was therefore sane and fit for duty.
The slave-owners who control and handle her, maintain a keen eye on the far horizon. Today the world, tomorrow the universe. Like The Beast herself, the slave-owners have grown ever fatter, and have become completely oblivious to the concept of ever having enough. No matter what the cost and to whom. There’s a name for this, and it’s either psychopathy or sociopathy. I’ve always had trouble understanding the difference. The Beast has a name too. She is called Fascism.
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Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces , ergo Fascism (male). To call it female and keep referring to it as ‘she’ must surely delight women readers. btw it is a very male -oriented philosophy.