Quote from nitro:
I am coming to the conclusion, albeit slowly, that the course of events taking place are completely natural, and that we should actually embrace it. Let me explain.
You see, if in fact the tens (hundreds ?) of millions of people were appeased by crumbs being thrown at them, they would probably go back to the miserable existence of being corporate zombies and pretending that having to work 9+ hour days with 2 weeks a year off is life. Taking the blue pill no longer works.
Instead, things will get much much worse. The top 1% will continue to amass wealth, at an ever increasing rate, the people in the middle terrified of hanging on to what they have, many slipping beyond that point where it takes exponentially more effort to get out of poverty. The resentment this will create will build, decade after decade, until either something truly wonderful happens, or something truly horrible. Either way, deconstruction through destruction will occur.
Hinduism teaches that before you can create, something must first be destroyed. There is a calm that comes over you when you realize that non of what we see should be surprising, that in fact it is the natural outcome of a set of systems, one piled on top of another, without any idea of what the mindless machine is doing on human scales.
The people that occupy wall street and other powerful venues are so poor at articulating what they want, and yet they know what they feel and see around them no longer makes sense. Many of them have already taken the red pill, but realize that their is no escape from having to live the life of a slave to pay rent and other necessities - forget about having children, that will be for the rich only soon, and if you do manage to afford one, their future has been sold to the machine. But forget about children, first we have to learn to save ourselves. So, any job will no longer suffice, but a job that offers the ability to live a reasonable life outside of work is the true new American dream. Unfortunately, there is no middle ground in America because you either sacrifice your life to work, or you are homeless. Mistakenly, we assume that the people that have wealth are at fault, when in fact they may be as powerless as anyone else to change the system - not even the President of the United States has the power to change the system (he risks being called all sorts of names, most likely socialist or communist) - the system has nearly achieved a life of its own, and it is likely beyond the power of even extremely wealthy people like Warren Buffet to even nudge it. No, the only way is probably some sort of apocalyptic future. I see no other way. I hope I am wrong and that I have missed something, which is very probable...
Hopefully, that experience will survive into the history books for future generations to analyze and make sense of, if for no other reason to not repeat it.
