How to Serve Man? “The Narcotic Effect of Thinking We are a Democracy”
Inspired by the 1962 Twilight Zone episode How to Serve Man
this writer uses that to make some cogent points about our corporate
and political system. We have (too) large corporations that do as little
as possible to make we working stiffs’ life easier. Instead, they
continue to attack our
pocketbooks and our bodies with inferior products
and services.
Imagine how the banking system
overcharges for us keeping our money with them, or using our money
through them. An overdraft or stop payment fee should be a few dollars,
instead of the average of $34 and $32 for both. Overdraft fees hit
consumers for over $34 billion a year at last count. Where were out
great politicians to stop this? Recently, with the prime rate at around
5.5 %, the average interest rate charge for an overdue card balance is
at 17+%! The aforementioned Shylock charges have been going on for
decades! Yet, the politicians from both parties , especially those who
get uber donations from the banking industry, do squat!
We have military spending at over 50% of our federal tax revenue. Recently, most of the Republican Senators and 38 Democratic Senators just passed an over $750 billion military spending bill. The Democratic controlled House said ‘Too much’ and suggested an increase over
last year’s bill to $733 billion. Real progressive, right, when it
comes to holding the Pentagon’s hand down the rabbit hole of fiscal
insolvency. Meanwhile, the roads and bridges, railroads, schools, health
care and ALL safety nets remain broken… along with the futures for
working stiffs nationwide.
All the embedded in empire mainstream
media cares about is how much this new crop of presidential pretenders
and current ‘Reality TV‘ president are raising for their campaigns. When
there is any new crisis like this Tropical Storm Barry, they are always
all over it. Yet, they always fail to mention that ALL the major
hurricanes and tornadoes which devastate our cities could have been
better received if our infrastructure in those areas was better secured.
After such devastation, as with Katrina, Sandy, Mathew, Maria and Irma,
if Uncle Sam didn’t spend most of our tax dollars in keeping our
military in the ‘hornet’s nest’ of the Middle East (it cost taxpayers
over $1,000,000 a year to keep ONE soldier in Afghanistan) the
poor survivors of said hurricanes would be properly cared for. Bush Jr.
telling his buddy Michael Brown “Good job Brownie” when the Katrina
aftermath was boldly mishandled, and Trump throwing toilet paper to the
Puerto Rican survivors of Hurricane Maria were examples of how NOT to
serve man.
Like serfs on some feudal estate, most of my fellow Americans continue to be, in the words of the late, great Malcolm X, to be ‘Conned, Hoodwinked, Bamboozled, Led Astray and Run Amuck’.
The narcotic effect of thinking we are a democracy has seeped into
their psyches. Many have already, for generations of families, just
given up. Others are more concerned with the 24/7 sports and media
driven gossip to care about their own future and that of their kids and
grandkids. Then we have those who crave a leader to show them the
way. Regardless of all the above, the end of this Amerikan culture will
be like the end of that Twilight Zone Episode. As the people file onto
the spaceship of ‘friendly‘ alien visitors, the code breaker runs up and
shouts to them “I found out that their book ‘How to Serve Man‘ is a cookbook!
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Philip A Farruggio is
a contributing editor for The Greanville Post. He is also frequently
posted on Global Research, Nation of Change, World News Trust and Off
Guardian sites. He is the son and grandson of Brooklyn NYC longshoremen
and a graduate of Brooklyn College, class of 1974. Since the 2000
election debacle Philip has written over 300 columns on the Military
Industrial Empire and other facets of life in an upside down America. He
is also host of the ‘It’s the Empire… Stupid‘ radio show, co produced
by Chuck Gregory. Philip can be reached at paf1222@bellsouth.net.
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