\nI was reading blogs the other night (like I usually do) and buried in a long comment on one particular blog was the following sentence:<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica will be as strong as the businesses and corporations allow.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had to go back and reread the comment and the stream it was in three more times just to make sure I read what I read. I slept on it and read it again the next day. Maybe I took it wrong. I wanted to ask what was actually meant by the statement, but I didn\u2019t want to possibly disrupt the flow of the page by questioning anything. So I took it as the white words on black background that it was.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know, maybe it was the time period that I was raised in. Maybe it was the experiences of my parents and grandparents that I was raised under. Maybe it\u2019s what I was fed as a child by the media, the education system, and society as a whole. Maybe it\u2019s just the way I feel about it.<\/p>\n
That statement scares the crap out of me.<\/p>\n
I do not like the movie \u201cIt\u2019s a Wonderful Life\u201d. Never have. The first time I watched it, I was in my teens and I thought the story, along with every character in it, was so unbelievably sappy and just truly annoying. I still find the movie annoying, just not as unbelievable. Now, unfortunately, I find the movie to be a bit prophetic in its unbelievably sappy way.<\/p>\n
Potterville is a possibility that\u2019s becoming more probable and we (as a Country) are selling off everything of ourselves towards that end. Sadly, our lives are not a movie. I doubt there\u2019s a Clarence the Angel that will come along to make us see how things could be. Sure, in the movie it\u2019s all just a dream, but to see the possibilities of our reality, you just have to look at the history of corporate mentality and behavior.<\/p>\n
I really don\u2019t want to live in a company town. I truly don\u2019t want to see indentured servitude brought back as the best option to survive. That\u2019s all been done before. It usually didn\u2019t work out well for anyone\/anything, except the companies.<\/p>\n
If we are to believe that businesses and corporations are to control whether America will be strong or weak, as that statement suggests, I think we may be doomed already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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