From the Internet:
Money trumps everything. The underlying rule when it comes to unregulated capitalism.
No shit.
I hate to say it, but to live under unregulated capitalism (US capitalism) in a lot of ways is to live in a world of shit. I guess you can always pop open a beer and vow not to think about reality anymore, but denial and repression only do so much good, and then the insanity of unregulated capitalism is punching you in the face again.
What is most frustrating about living under unregulated capitalism is how helpless all the sane people feel. Really nothing can be done. Any political party of any reasonable size is controlled by the unregulated capitalists, so they run government at all levels. Elections are a pitiful joke, pitting one whore for the unregulated capitalists against another one, with both of them yelling as hard as they can that they are really not whores but are actually for the people themselves, when in fact none of them are.
The mainstream media is completely useless. Large newspapers are always just shills for the unregulated capitalists. In addition, they are totally controlled by whatever is the main industry in the region. State governments are worse than useless as they also are controlled by the largest industries in the state. National governments are corporate controlled, with the “regulators” cycling back and forth from the very industries they are supposed to be regulating. Pitiful.
We, the people, feel like mutes. We scream as loud as we can, but no one can hear us, or if they do, they pretend they don’t. We are constantly organizing wildly outspent campaigns against the unregulated capitalists. Some we win, some we lose. As soon as we get through fighting one battle, we have to pick ourselves up from the floor of the ring and go another round. It’s all so exhausting.
Towards the end of his life, Marlon Brando, who was as fat as an island himself, moved his very large ass out to a Polynesian island where he set himself up in a grass hut and said FTW (fuck the world).
I am getting more and more tempted.
