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People keep saying that the system has grown out of control. That's a lot of crappy-crap. I'll tell you why, too.

The reason that the system hasn't grown out of control is because it was always out of control. Systems are action patterns that function on their own, with only exterior stimuli necessary to charge the process.

The only reason a system fades gently into a goodnight is because it becomes outdated. If a system doesn't jive with a majority of people, then a new system replaces it. Think evolution. Don't believe me? Wondering how the Cheney org could jive with a majority? Wondering how pinkocloners could support the Waffleman? Wondering how the sub-poverty proles jive with the system? Actually, the answer is both simple and extremely devious.

Systems don't want to die. Systems are built to survive, and they will try their damndest to survive. Just because you despise a system doesn't mean you dont jive with it. Just because you are poor and don't have a house and it rains every day between September and May doesn't mean you've fallen through the cracks in the system. Don't flatter yourself. The system created you the same way that it created Bush1.2 and his older brother the angel of death.

The system needs unhappy crack whores to lean on for when the middle class gets drunk and starry eyed and wants to do some philosphicationizing. And when the middle class gets too edumacated, the upper class knows it has to talk about watchoomacalem, the G-word, the bible dude, to make good buddies of the squalored proles.

The system needs all of us. What about rebels? Especially rebels. How many sixties age-ed hippies are thinking "Man, dude, we had something! Man we were close. Man we got something done, dude!" Well, you age-ed hippies, you did get some stuff done, and you pushed some civil rights stuff through thick skulls like pushing an Hispanic mother with two babies and no health insurance through the Emergency Room.

But now she's back in the waiting room, and she wants some attention.

Not only that, but look how much stronger the system is, now. Ever wonder why? Well, guess what? I've got a few minutes.

The system thought through the problem of WWI and WWII. The Peeps aren't trusting the gov anymore, they are considering that the system is a bit old fashioned. Time to build some rebels! So the system builds some rebels and then says, like that one guy somewhere said, the guy who's name I can not remember, "We'll cross paths again on the long journey to the middle."

Rebellion against the system is just another way of solidifying the validity of the system.

To the guy from Argentina: Man, I hear you. Is there anythjing that sucks worse than a bunch of rich white fuckos in the U.S.A. whining about the systemic tragedy while you're watching your son take a beat-down from scurvy thugs yet again after a 14hour work day?

Yuck. Disgusting. Abominable. Dispicable and worse. I could sit here and tell you not to despair, that there are other people who have it worse (read "other people" to mean "the entire forgotten continent of Africa" that unfortunately for them has no oil or would already be rescued from AIDS from famine from rampant cronyism from genocide and war and yaddayadda).

But the point is that it sucks for you, Argentina, regardless of how much it sucks in Africa, or in Nepal, or in Nazi Germany, or in Compton, or in Utah. It sucks sucks sucks for everyone who the system built for sucking. But you can't fight the system without making it stronger.

Like I've said before, the only way out is to make close, honest friends with the other suckers. Help them move. Walk together after the 14hour work days and learn about the non-aggressive self-defense forms of martial arts. Help your buddies. Have small families you can feed and educate and give solid back massages to when needed. Paying your taxes won't make Cheney king of planet earth or install pinko salad-eaters in bible-writing positions. Just understand that you need to think human to avoid the system.

That's the only way. Instead of rebelling, AVOID it like it was the plague. Make your own small, STRONG systems: grassroots systems. You'll have to forget about the Simpsons, though, and especially the Olsen twins, damn them. Posters of the Olsen twins don't jive very well with listening to your neighbor. The simpsons are the same as drugs and skipping class and not paying your parking tickets: they are consolations created by the system.

If you are doing drugs for reasons unrelated to escape, go ahead and smoke the hippie lettuce if you want. If the reason why you love homer simpson has nothing to do with escape, then fine. But be honest with yourself, huh? You're just consoling yourself, aren't you? Arent you?

Collect your friends. Congregate. Call your mom. Forgive her. Be eloquent and loving. Teach your friend how to spell 'ukulele' instead of ignoring his offensive syntax. Help. Care. "Turn off that smoke stack and that . . . ."

Heard it before? And?

TBT

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yep.

cold beer and olsen twins and political posturing. the only kind of change we want is change that brings us more money to clone olsen twins.

still, we like to blather about politics, pretend we have a moral code worth a good thrust up someone else's arse, and laugh until we cry at jokes told at someone else's expense.

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