Lifted from an old post on my sister blog Annarky1:
Society based on Capitalism,Religion,Authority and Patriotism.
C.R.A.P. for short.
Any alien looking in on our society must come to the conclusion that we
earthlings love CRAP. It is all they will see as we scurry about
working in CRAP jobs for CRAP wages and in what little “leisure” time we
have we rush around buying CRAP. We spend precious time discussing the
benefits of this piece of CRAP as opposed to that piece of CRAP. We
weigh up the difference between this pair of CRAP trainers and that pair
of CRAP trainers, this CRAP label and that CRAP label. We consider we
have choices when we select this CRAP newspaper or that CRAP magazine
from the avalanche of CRAP paper pulp on offer. One CRAP supermarket
after another offers us an array of CRAP food and TV vomits endless CRAP
into our homes and we flick from CRAP Big-Brother to CRAP house
make-overs, from CRAP lifestyle programs to CRAP celebrity chat shows.
Move to the realms of the “serious” CRAP and we have on offer CRAP
political parties throwing up a display of smiling CRAP politicians,
who, come election time, prance about offering CRAP policies in the hope
that they can take their place in that CRAP institution at Westminster.
What we get from the CRAP government of the day is such things as the
CRAP war on drugs, that doesn’t work, CRAP tough on crime, that
criminalizes poverty, CRAP war on terrorism, that is counterproductive,
Capitalism,
can produce nothing but an abundance of CRAP as profit is the only motive.
Religion,
produces CRAP freedom destroying dogma, based on the supposed mutterings of some airy-fairy gods.
Authority,
gives us a CRAP life based on surveillance and strict unbending laws.
Patriotism,
the last refuge of the scoundrel gives us CRAP racism and generates canon fodder for the state’s endless CRAP wars.
Is this the type of society that we want to bequeath to our children
and our grandchildren? Should we not be taking control of our own
affairs and producing to all our needs based on sustainability? A world of
free association, voluntary co-operation and mutual aid is possible, a
world that accommodates us all as equals and prepares the world for the
next generation rather than rob them of an existence.
First we have to get rid of C. R. A. P. Let’s start now.
