The AmeriKan Aristocracy’s Ability to Waste
When I was a little boy, I lived with my alcoholic mother and my two sisters in Tomoka Swamp in central Florida until the family court proved that my mother was unfit.
. Most of the time I would fish or hunt just to put something on the diner table. My mom was a great cook and she would cook up what ever fish, quail, rabbit or deer that my friends and I would kill while hunting in the swamp.
I was forced to abandon my mother at the age of thirteen and went to live with my alcoholic father.
My Dad inherited a lot of money from his father in the 1930′s, he lived on a large estate called ‘Hunter’s Hill” in Penna. He would get drunk, grab a rifle and take me for walks around his estate shooting at ground hogs, rabbits or at any living thing that he thought that he could hit along the way for target practice, leaving the dead and wounded where they lay. It was on such a “hunt” when he told me that he thought that America’s greatest asset was it’s ability to waste.
That conversation took place in a field in Penna. in 1963. My reaction to my Dad’s statement and his type of “hunting” was of disgust and disbelief because even at the age of thirteen, I knew that nobody should act like that… in the real world without getting their ass beat.
By 1967 I had rejected my Dad’s capitalist concept that our greatest national asset was our ability to waste and started doing anti-war concerts in California and Arizona protesting the Vietnam war. Six years later I was playing Christmas shows at the Apollo Theater and touring with the “Main Ingredients” whose singer was/is Cuba Gooding … the anti- war movement and the American struggle for civil liberties interested me more than figuring out how to waste stuff just to make a buck. The study and manipulation of words seemed futile to me because we all know that it is the study of nature that will solve our problems … And now, decades later…
Same old, same old, the war criminal Dick Cheney bragging back in 2006 about how Americans have more trash than the Germans or the Japanese … and what is really weird is that my Dad and the war criminal Cheney never sustained their own bodies : nitro-popping, over indulgent, fat heart patients doing the absolute wrong things.
The world of unearned reward is where you will find Amerikan Aristocracy selling their false claims to anyone who has money or who is stupid enough to piss into a jar for a drug test in order to qualify for work.
An ongoing executive power-grab in Washington, Credit default swaps, derivatives, murder by drone, ignoring the Geneva Convention, on-going corporate wars of aggression for oil all over the world ( the executive branch’s C.I.A. is an army now), and the acceptance of a corporate volunteer military whose budget has bankrupted our nation are the tools of the new Amerikan aristocracy.
Register and vote! All politics is local. Support your local organic farms.
If you have not seen “the Future of Food” on hulu at You Tube it could be a good idea to check it out. It is a good example of the W.T.O.’s end game and a perfect picture of what unearned reward looks like.
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