Facebook is probably the predominant media force around. It is how hundreds of millions of people interact and communicate. Because of the impact FB has on the social landscape, it also has the power to shape the way people think – which is especially alarming when THINKING among the masses is at such a minimum these days. Thus, it is my goal to show how the (un)thinking promoted throughout Facebook (and beyond) threatens to destroy us all. Seriously! No hyperbole!
For example, I've noticed a lot of these political "cut and paste into your status if you agree" messages appearing at an increased frequency. First, what gets me is the fact that now dumb people don’t even participate politically by repeating a jargonistic phrase or slogan, which the thoughtful among us will acknowledge is parasitic groupthink at best and oppressive anti-democracy at worst. But no, we've reached to such pathetic lows that we cut and paste and send it along without a thought about what it says and means. We don’t even have to process the words enough to let it escape our own mouths and/or come from our own fingers. Below is one that I’ve come across recently:
“You pass the North Korean border illegally you get 12 yrs. hard labor, you pass the Afghan border illegally you get shot, you pass the American border illegally you get a job, driver’s license, allowance for a place to live, health care, education, billions of dollars spent so you can read a document. We carry passports in other countries or face jail time. Repost this if you agree.”
Most of these are blatant lies, and the others are oversimplifications that demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of the issue. 1) Undocumented workers only get a job because some greedy corporation wants to take advantage of them, so who is at fault here? 2) No one can get a driver’s license without a birth certificate, which is odd since people will repost this knowing the process they had to go through to get THEIRS. 3) THEY DON’T GET FUCKING WELFARE. 4) THEY DON’T GET HEALTH CARE – shit I DON’T and I’ve been a full-blown citizen for 30 years (my entire lifespan). Ok, the emergency rooms, but that is a different issue entirely and something the reform bill was trying to fix, and if you think we should turn away people who are dying or severely injured, then you’re beyond a piece of shit! 5) Yes, immigrants can attend school but under some of the worst conditions – I should know I’ve taught in them. Also, to all you anti-tax pricks: you want to spend more money to create new bureaucracies to PREVENT these kids from going to school. Not to mention that we’d have an even more uneducated group of people on our hands, and that usually has far-reaching consequences with crime and property value and all kinds of shit. So, until you can mindfully offer better alternatives, shut the fuck up! 6) WHAT? Bullshit! 7) Okay, I have no idea what you’re even saying.
Aside from the bullshit factor, do people not realize that PEOPLE AREN’T saying these things? This is likely something some asshole in a corporate ivory tower wrote to poison the discourse so he and his fellow pricks can benefit from having a retarded electorate. For example, some oil lobby wants to get Republicans in office because they know Republicans provide them oral sex and favorable policy – this because they pay to get these assholes elected. Well, Corporate America are experts in the art of distractive politics, so they have a board meeting and decide that because liberals and democrats are eroding their influence and power, they have to do something about it. So, they think about what has worked in the past. They spread their bullshit lies to the masses through underground marketing – things like FB stati these days – and inform the Republicans to use the same talking points. In 2004 Republicans used Gay Marriage as an issue to stir up the fascist moronic masses, urging them to ignore Bush’s Armageddon-esque approach to running things. Also, anyone remember the Swift Boaters? Now it is immigration. These issues aren’t real. They are invented by the powered elite to get us pissed off at a group that has nothing to do with anything – this so we don’t notice how they’re fucking us. If you know your history you know both fascist Germany and authoritarian Russia did this. This is BASIC political strategy people. Stupefy the masses and you can accomplish any narrowed issue you want – even if it fucks the people! And all you have to do is cut and paste these fabricated messages to spread this disease. Brilliant!
Then what happens is these messages get repeated over and over and over and over. And, because people don’t think, truth = repetition. Meaning, you hear it enough and don’t think about it you start to believe it. If I said that shit tastes like watermelon enough times, and people posted that over and over on Facebook, and politicians and corporate elites were talking about watermelon-flavored shit, you’d be at your local Wal-Mart in a millisecond BEGGING to get your fill of shit! Oh, but not you. You’re smart and don’t let these forces manipulate you. Bullshit! We’re all subject to these forces because we’re only one person and can’t know everything – we have to believe others the same way we have to believe our mothers that touching a glowing-red stove will burn us. If we’re not informed we have to rely on others to help us understand that which we don’t understand. That and our focus is on basic survival and not knowledge because we don’t have our basic needs met – this is another cog in the machine that allows our masters to own us, but I will have to leave this discussion for a later time. However, the difference among morons and thoughtful people is that thoughtful people won’t repost this and will THINK about what is said before they agree with it. We’re all cogs in the machine, but I know it and do all I can to speak out against it. Morons are convinced being a cog benefits them.
So I fucking beg you to STOP IT! Define your own values and beliefs. Think before you speak/ post things on Facebook. This is important because the consequences of acting on this misinformation is 1) innocent people get scapegoated and fucked, and 2) nothing gets resolved. Fascist politics means that once we’re done bitching about immigrants it will be something else. It doesn’t matter. So long as we’re not bitching about U.S. trade policies written by U.S. corporations that economically fuck Mexico and urge Mexicans to come here to survive. The real problem is our exploitation of the country and Mexico’s participating elite. You think Mexicans really want to come here to pick lettuce and be paid shit and be treated like shit by a bunch of asshole fascist gringos? They do it to survive, and any one of you pasty white assholes would do the same in the similar situation. And you know it! Even if you’re too dumb to acknowledge it. You know it!
Furthermore, this affects us because we watch our role and power erode with every election cycle. The bailouts show that our needs and concerns don’t matter. There is still NO JOB growth, yet corporate America is making record profits. This can’t sustain. Eventually the system will collapse because the greedy elites will have sucked everything dry. To use a metaphor, the pigs will eat everything in sight and we will all starve. And while they eat we fight amongst ourselves and ignore the real problem: Greedy pig assholes.
So stop being a fucking tool. Think for yourself. I know what I said will not get through to the people who would most benefit from reading this rant. This is 1,444 words after all, and they don’t read because to do so involves thinking. And that is the real sad part. So in the end I am preaching only to the interested choir, which sadly is very small in numbers. But to you I say this: CHALLENGE THESE MORONS AT EVERY TURN! This is getting ugly, and we will all suffer from this ignorance. ¡Necesitamos Una Revolución de la Mente y Alma! We Need a Revolution of the Mind and Soul!
And DON’T copy and paste this if you agree. Write your own! Think! Challenge this parasitic bullshit that threatens to destroy us all. Please.
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