Somehow the keepers of the media and banking systems and the corporate overlords of commerce have elevated themselves into a de facto royalty fawned upon by the image control systems.

Take a look around and you see it everywhere. We see it everywhere in the selection process of appointments to positions of power. You see it in the icons of success. Most of these individuals would die of exposure locked out of their house. Yet the solutions sought are only accredited if the source of these solutions has obtained wealth legally or illegally not withstanding. We should view obscene wealth as criminality in most cases. Now they are carried by a well leashed media into manufactured acceptance ( I've adopted and modified a Chomskyism for the ones who accuse me of plagiarizing ) and admiration for the amount of this accumulation.

I do believe that the most effective method of resistance is the rejection of Wealth worship and denouncing its manifestations in the entertainment medias. Wealth carries incredible burdens to the ones blessed/cursed with it. As much as it is difficult to feel even the smallest compassion for these powerful makers of policy is because they have treacherous enemies of their own making. They cannot trust they, cannot really love. They deserve pity for their sickness and derision for their greed. Recognize it and refute it where ever and when ever you see this. It resonates. It cuts across class and race lines like a knife through butter. I believe it is a reasonable platform for organization at any level.

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You know what they say about people like sheepdog:

Those that believe money is evil have never had to go without it.

Until you're ready to cast off the restraints of money and live a meager pauper-like existence, why would you expect the rest of us to snap-to at your whim?

You can start by getting that internet connection turned off, since that's a frivalous waste of money. Then sell that computer that you own; it's a symbol of elitism to the poverty-stricken masses of the third world.

And don't claim that you're not wealthy either. Wealth is ambiguous and subjective. If you make more than 0 per month you are wealthy to most people of the world.

sorry about the rant, I was up too long and in a cranky frame of mind after a coffee plus day. It was a somewhat disjointed over bearing and arrogant. I get that way. However.

I do pity the wealthy. You know, the 1% that controls 90% of the material and institutional wealth in the USA. They have so much on their minds. Not the things we have on our minds like rent/mortgage payments, food transportation and health care but the encroaching cunning and stab in the back relationships they deal with.

They need to stop bleeding the society white in their infantile game of hording and role playing. They treat the earth like a convenience whore house.

Some times it's a matter of seeing the problem as a evolutionary step. The means of change are at hand with us at this moment and all it would take for it to happen would be an idea. Probably not any of mine but I'm optimistic about the slippery yet irresistible force of humanity.

if you pity rich folks BECAUSE they are rich, or because they mite lose their wealth thru competition, fraud, neglect,etc..it may mean you have an attachment to them..maybe?

The fraudulence of the left's concern about poverty is exposed by their utter lack of interest in ways of increasing the nation's wealth. Wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty. The reason there is less poverty today is not because the poor got a bigger slice of the pie but because the whole pie got a lot bigger -- no thanks to the left.

We should go about doing this.. Not just a few families. I have no objection to a better life which is real wealth. For everyone who wants it.

The criminal elite have tripped over their teny weenies into the information age. No longer able to control the information as was a critical method of repression and stasis in the Old age, it's far too late to put the Genie into the bottle of a society that sees its hard won rights and even privileges, in this country, threatened. They can only hope to convince us to be frightened into ' go fucking ourselves' as they try to pull this bluff.

Right not, the right wing are just out to increase the wealth of rich people, not everyone. The pie is getting larger, but people are getting a smaller and smaller piece of it. People are working longer hours, and not seeing raises. Periodic raises only happen for the affluent.

Education is ossifying into a system of handing out privileges, operated by well paid bureaucrats who send their kids to private school. Public health is being cut again, while the number of people without insurance is on the rise. We've seen in the past two decades, the return of tuberculosis and syphillis, two curable diseases that we thought we'd eradicated. They're back because poverty is on the rise. Government statisticians are always coming up with ways to reclassify the unemployed, so they vanish from the numbers.

Yes, we have cheap goods to satiate us, and 99 cent burgers coming out the ass (literaly), but, how is the future looking? Are we going to be fat and sitting on resin lawn chairs, dumb and happy? Is that the future?

This is thanks to Reaganomics, right-wing debt-war spending and irresponsibility. Don't even try to tack these faults on the Left. The rich, and their suck-ups caused it all to happen, and the Left has been fighting tooth and nail to retain social services for everyone, to solidify a working class to operate things in their own interests, while the Democrats have often given their souls over to corporations and big money unions.

I appreciate the input, Mr. rational.

Real Wealth. It means not having to struggle against unfair burdens others put upon one to make the world a more just, safer and more creative life for the next generations. Intrinsicly there is little more to wish for in a sane ideology.

Ya can't take it with you.

I have a difficult time being able to fathom the karmic burden some of these blythe doughboys in ties bring with them. The creatures they hire to rape the people of the world under the shadow of fire and steel. Shudder.

Hell most of these handicapped individuals can't even enjoy a tiny fraction of what they do have. A pitiable psychosis. They belong on a nice island like Malta.

What a board twerp, someone kick his ass off here.

This is an old Clifford Harper picture I found on Wikipedia. He's an old anarchist, a once-young miscreant who found himself and became an artist and rebel, who illustrated some popular utopian anarchist images.

So, Max was asking what anarchism is. Here it is in pixels, and it's somewhat close to what I imagine. My utopia would have different shaped houses, and the garden plots would not line up so straight.

There's a lot of wealth depicted in this picture. There's the wealth of stability, of food, of community, and even a certain wealth of boredom. In fact, in most anarchist fantasies, the most striking thing is that they depict a world not dissimilar to a Norman Rockwell painting, except with less excitement, more crowds, and a bank burning (perhaps). "Just another labor day picnic in the Federated non-states of America." This may stem from the fact that many anarchist lives are chaotic, and, in fact, are "anarchistic" or without order.

I don't see any chaos in the drawing, more like ultra-organized arrangement, and that in itself is horrible. Where is the room for lounging, bbqing or just plain walking around--NONE--. You can see almost every square inch of space used as growing space..groan..

just wondering, but where would the anarchists in this picture get power, garbage removal, sewer, heat, etc. from and with what exchange? of course barter, a real step up, eh?

Power can be derived from the garbage and sewer wastes as well as solar power whether or not it's photo voltaic or direct.

Where are these services now? Underground, I guess.

Don't take the picture so literally. As far as political propaganda goes, it's pretty mild. It's not like the propaganda that gets spewed on television.

Look at right-wing propaganda. It's usually eagles and flags. They don't even show the eagle in a habitat, or a flag being produced in a factory.