In countries all over the world, we are being commercialized, we are being groomed; through advertising and public relations, to be a consumerist society and shopping culture. In this kind of society, our cultures, religions, attire, foods, and other things that make each group of us unique in some way, is being sold at auction.
This uniqueness equation of our cultures are homogenized, cooked, remodeled, packaged, and sold on the open market to people around the world to meet desires for peoples' curiosities. These curiosities are created, supported, nurtured, and become dependent on our commercial conglomerates which, together with our individual governments (federal/fiefdom/state/county/city/village/etc) all over the world are moving us into the realm of rule by business fascism. The difference is in the products being sold (since everything is a product, from religion, to bubble gum) by major corporations who receive extreme favoritism by our various governmental/administrative/clerical/official representatives.
This favoritism of our government (in any form what so ever) and the corporate conglomerates they represent is called business fascism. Business fascism is having the middle classes support and protect these 'special people' by bailouts of $700 billion dollars. The threat is that if these guys are not supported, we will all face (especially in the USA) a life in purgatory for the next ten years, then we will be relegated to third world status after that. This threat includes having the dollar valued to less than the peso, or drachma, and we become jobless louts wondering as our grandfathers did during the Great Depression of the 1930's.
The president is holding us hostage with terms like unending recession, severe job losses, and vast numbers of people thrown out of their houses. This threat seems so real, so intense, and so horrific that we seem to have no choice but to bow to the gods of Wall Street and sing their tune. We are to bail out our wealthiest classes from their abuse, greed, shallow pride, lack of moral and ethical courage, and plain old honesty. But there is, in times of collapse, the crocodile tears that flow from their eyes when they run to the Fed to save their lives.
We must change governments, and this is the best time. Congress has the lowest rate of civilian faith and confidence in history, yet we voted these thieves into office, and we must never forget we can vote them out. But vote them out we must. Can you imagine four more years of Republican rule? Can you justify spending another 3, 5, or 7 years in Iraq carrying on a police action. Each one at this point cannot be trusted unless he has been faith full upholding the trust of your vote over the business fascists of your areas of the country.
The fascist world of business, which permeates our entire lives, from pablum to casket and has reduced us to numbers on ledgers. Insurance has its actuary tables on every type of body style, ethnic group, and family history. Market research has finally discovered and revealed to these conglomerates the kinds of tooth brushes we will be most likely to buy, icecream we eat, shoes we wear, dinner ware we eat off of, televisions we watch, coverings on a couch, and so on ad nausea.
I will be hard to dislodge this new form of fascism, that is because it is commercially embedded in our society from advertising, and public relations companies. These companies have so much money that they literally buy each other out, and do this to corner markets, eliminate competition, and price fix. Once a market is held captive, it is a hostage to the corporation that has it cornered, like a dog trapped by the hound pound.
Who are these fascist conglomerates? Just think, you already know them because you buy their products everyday. Just open your closet and look at the labels, open your pantry and look at who manufactures your food, how many car manufacturers are there (not styles of cars), how many petroleum companies are left (after muggers), how many major brewers (not variety of beers), and how many candy companies. You will find, these and many other industries completely dominate markets and set prices, reduce supplies to markets to control prices.
What happens when major mergers occur between two or more competing companies? All over lapping jobs will be cut (people fired), and all duplicated products eliminated with the most popular brands keeping their labels while the lower selling labels get dropped. Business fascism, business Sun Yat Sen. each company is at war for market share, higher share prices, and more price control. The only way to stop it is to legislate it out of existence. To legislate the carnivorous characteristic of businesses out of existence, so as to give this planet back to the people.
Very good article. A stand must be taken now, I think most people realise this and there have been some serious rumblings going on in Europe and within the US. Veiled as those comments are, its clear what is meant.
The last time the world walked this path, fascist states ended up treading on each others toes and WWII was born.
Let's hope those lessons have not been forgotten.
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