http://brendancalling.com/2008/07/09/third-worlding/ "living in an alternative universe of permanent outrage and relentless negativity fostered and fueled by the blogosphere." Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:18:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://brendancalling.com/2008/07/09/third-worlding/comment-page-1/#comment-11753 Tim Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:23:20 +0000 http://brendancalling.com/2008/07/09/third-worlding/#comment-11753 That's actually my (admittedly half-baked) theory: the goal of the fuck-you-rich minority controlling the government and its increasingly-strangled media-aided political distract-a-thon (divide and conquer, anyone?) is precisely to turn the US into a third world country. When everybody is poor, we become that much easier to rule/suppress/control. We are all too busy bickering about gay marriage, black presidents, illegal immigrants, flag pendants, Britney's dingy pastrami noodle, the fucking Red Sox, etc. to notice or care about the rapid erosion of everything that once safeguarded our freedom and ability to merely make do -- screw the idea of getting ahead. Keep your nose to the grindstone. Keep gobbling up those hot buttons. Keep finding ways to hate the other crumbsuckers around you. Keep watching America's Next Top Distraction. Keep forgetting that everything -- fuel, mortgages, the environment -- is already beyond repair. Keep losing sight of who is the real fucking enemy. That’s actually my (admittedly half-baked) theory: the goal of the fuck-you-rich minority controlling the government and its increasingly-strangled media-aided political distract-a-thon (divide and conquer, anyone?) is precisely to turn the US into a third world country. When everybody is poor, we become that much easier to rule/suppress/control. We are all too busy bickering about gay marriage, black presidents, illegal immigrants, flag pendants, Britney’s dingy pastrami noodle, the fucking Red Sox, etc. to notice or care about the rapid erosion of everything that once safeguarded our freedom and ability to merely make do — screw the idea of getting ahead. Keep your nose to the grindstone. Keep gobbling up those hot buttons. Keep finding ways to hate the other crumbsuckers around you. Keep watching America’s Next Top Distraction. Keep forgetting that everything — fuel, mortgages, the environment — is already beyond repair. Keep losing sight of who is the real fucking enemy.

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