Please Pay Your Snob Support
Otherwise You’ll Be Called Lazy
To hear the snobs tell it, people just don’t want to work. This idea is blasted from the digital rooftops like church bells ringing across the landscapes of old when an enemy attacked.
Or tornado sirens. Take your metaphorical pick.
There is definitely a slow-moving catastrophe befalling us. But the snobs ringing the church bells are screaming: “Your neighbor is coming! Your neighbor is coming! Your neighbor doesn’t want to work! Summon the garrisons!”
Them Is Us
The only problem is, your neighbor is you and you are your neighbor. There is no difference when defending a community. So which of us in the garrison needs to attack which others in the garrison? It makes no sense.
The only thing that astounds me about this is how easy it is to convince people that other people with no power or resources can somehow be responsible for a mass crisis.
It reminds me of the twin crises of crack cocaine and HIV that began in the 1980s. Only now it’s opioids and the “labor shortage” which, as it turns out, is actually a chronic illness crisis. Your neighbor (i.e.: you) is literally unable to work. And it’s their (your) fault.
The Snob Playbook
So we’ve seen this playbook before, but this time it’s aimed at the entire working class, not just parts of it. But fortunately, because we’ve seen it before, we can analyze our current situation for what it is, not what we’re being told it is.
The Situation Today
The snobs who own our media own most of our other industries too. They are the ones who benefit the most from your cheap labor. This spring, 2009 came to them in their sugarplum dreams and sang sweet lullabies of low cost servants efficiently sweating in their factories, retail outlets, warehouses, and pedicure shops.
But then they woke up in the morning and realized — alas — it was just a dream! And they fervently rang their little bells and blew their dog whistles and all the spokesmodels in the land received their talking points via the MDMA (Magic Demagoguery Mystery Apparatus).
This wouldn’t be a problem if they couldn’t actually convince everyone that you are to blame for your own flattened house. I mean why on earth do you live there? If you weren’t lazy, and worked really hard like they do, you could afford that beach cottage, where there are no tornadoes. But don’t you dare mention the $10 million beach cottages that you paid to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy dunked them into the surf.
What You Need to Believe
You see, when tragedy befalls them, it’s your responsibility to bail them out, because they worked hard to get what they have. But when tragedy befalls you, it’s your fault because you don’t want to work. You’re also sick because you don’t want to work. And you are addicted because you don’t want to work. It has nothing to do with snobs gleefully duping your doctor into being prescribing dangerous drugs to you. It has nothing to do forcing their empty “food” onto your grocery shelves. It has nothing to do with the algorithms they set up to fire you over and over again so they can hire you back more desperate than the last time.
Oopsie!
Gee. I wonder why we’re in the middle of a mental and physical health catastrophe?
Who could have known that a sick and exhausted population would be abjectly vulnerable to a nasty virus and that it would throw millions of families into new forms of misery?
Such a mystery.
Who is really surprised that slapping the labor force across its face during a pandemic was the straw that broke the labor force’s back?
Never fear though. Snobs, freed from empathy by their own hard work, responded by rebranding it as a labor shortage. Then they broke out the 80-year-old Scotch to celebrate their propaganda victory.
Bravo! And bully for them! Now they are relieved of the responsibility to do anything about it, even though they’re the only ones with the resources to do anything about anything. Instead, they can whine for more corporate welfare, a.k.a. Snob Support.
The Right Kind of Ignorance
It’s a neat trick — getting the victims to accept the blame for their own abuse and making them pay for it too. But ignorance is the way out of this mess. Counterintuitive? Yes. Who advocates for ignorance?
Hear me out, please. If you ignore someone, you become ignorant of them. You’ve decided to employ ignore-ance.
And if you want to repair your relations with your family, friends, and neighbors, everyone needs to act in ignorance of the messages the perpetrators use to turn us against each other.
I know this sounds like a small bucket of water compared to the raging fires in our culture right now.
But if we throw this small bucket of water on the Wicked Snobs of the West and their flying monkeys, maybe they will melt away from our lives — free to sail wherever they want on the yachts they worked so hard for. Let their flying monkeys join them and continue serving them in return for a few scraps of validation every blue moon.
Just remember, whenever you see or hear some variation of “you/they don’t want to work” you’ll know who you’re dealing with so you can ignore them.
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