taliendo

There is no better place to see the machine that is American than a major shopping center or mall. Not just the customers moving lemming like through the isles, nodding absent mindedly with the over head music, and finally being herded out the doors through the turnstile like checkouts, one must also examine the employees. Here we see the fusion of what was once a mercantile industry with the service industry; a melding that becomes corporate America at its lowest. I’ve worked retail almost non stop for the last six years, since I was 16 and could get a legal paying job. The most disgusting aspect of retail is the corporation themselves. Day in and day out some big-wigs in an office building in a huge city sit and dream up ways to scam and lie to Joe Consumer (always with a smile.) These people, too good to ever good to even drop by to see what it is like to be one of their employees, fail at their job every day. I’m not sure how many times orders have been sent down from corporate - instructions on a new way to stock shelving or hang signing or charge a customer’s debit card. These people have one objective in mind and that is to pinch the penny. There has to be one more way to get an extra three cent an item.

My question is this - How much money is enough? How much of this earth’s land do you want to fill with Targets, and Blockbusters, and McDonalds? What’s wrong with small business? And there’s the catch. Capitalism is making its way to becoming a socialistic society, where the power resides in the hands of the few and everyone else derives their wealth from those centers. And what makes capitalism so great? Because of the lies that they tell - any man can make it big, any one with enough good work ethic and a good idea can be the next president.

And so I ask - who in their right mind would want to captain a sinking ship? The shit is going down. All because people stopped believing in what those founding fathers wrote hundreds of years ago: What about, “all men created equal?” What about “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” And every man’s God given right to seek after those things. What if he is a Muslim? What if he is an Iraqi? What about these people's liberty to live life how they see fit? A dictatorship you say? The abuse and torment of the proletariat by the ruling class? I say let them rise up. Let them start their revolution and if they ask for assistance then please, by all means, go and help them. Did we not cry out to France and Spain? Did they not seriously aid us in our battle against the red coats those many years ago? What they did not do was invade our land and try and push their government and politics upon us. Doing that is no better than Napoleon or Constantine. That is raising and empire.

Our McDonald’s mentality has crept into our world affairs and this country has started to raise franchises across the globe. The reality is a horrowshow. We give the people their freedom and then abandon them in it. Now, with a dictatorship spoiled, and a freedom that no man asked for, the people are left holding themselves unsure about how to proceed. Living in a torrential atmosphere, the suddenness of it leaves a gap only to be filled by some other preformed power coming in a forming yet another dictatorship. Only this time the government is masked in the light of the “democracy” that we “gave” the people. This all leaves the world where? The super power dying while continuously setting up failing franchises based upon itself, and the world – well, the world will be ok. Perhaps even a better place.

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NOTE: I am not anti-American, but this really bothers me. and on a side note this was written a while ago (bout when Bush jr declared war) and I thought perhaps it would raise some discussion on this forum. Please, by all means, discuss.

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