MC Mirth

I like Making movies. I love Music.
I am a debater...

Yes that's right, everyday millions of Americans vote. Every dollar you spend is more like a vote for a particular company or corporation. Each time you by a Nike product or buy gas at Shell you are saying, "I support your evil company and the particular way in which you exploit and/or pollute my environment". Shell, if you haven't heard already, is a less than admirable business. They have been polluting the Niger River delta, home of the Ogoni people, for the last 40+ years. The traditional farming and fishing habits of the Ogoni people have been devastated as a result. Also, the Niger River delta has been declared as the most polluted river delta in the world in direct relation to Shell's exploitation. And yes WE(everyone who has ever bought something at Shell) have been contributing to it. Speaking of evil companies, Nike can't be so bad. They just make good shoes, right? Not really, they have closed American factories and reopened them over seas, leaving thousand of Americans without jobs and paying their new employees as low as 67, yes 67 pennies an hour. Now that is the real American way. While I'm on the subject of clothing companies I'll mention another corrupt organization. When you buy Guess clothing you are supporting the sweat shops that they run in southern California. By allowing these types of sweat shops to stay open we are allowing wages to be pushed to the lowest possible dollar amount. Not only are we allowing Guess to hurt the poor and oppressed people of southern California, we are allowing them to hurt every working class citizen indirectly. What can you do? Simply don't buy their products. Also, find out what companies exploit people and the environment and then spread the word and boycott them to. Also, Use LINEX instead of Microsoft for your computer. The new programs are just as easy to use and you will be happy that you stopped helping Bill "I'll belligerently steal existing technology" Gates to corner and monopolize the market. When you notice a company is taking part in the centralization of capitalism simply stop voting for them.
I wish to propose a salubrious anarchy, a deliberate renunciation of fealty to country, society, and government, an assertion of independence from folly and moral decay. Permit me to offer a taxing political idea: When a society ceases to be worthy of support, it is reasonable to withdraw support. The time, I submit, has come.
Here I do not mean to urge crime or counsel treason, but to suggest quiet renunciation of the national disaster. Ask yourself how much of American life pleases you. The schools are run by fools to manufacture fools, government grows more intrusive by the day, and culture is determined by the triple cloacae of New York, Hollywood, and Washington. Freedom withers, not only in the ominous encroachment of police powers, but in the loss of control over schools, church, hiring, daily life. We are no longer our own. The United States is not the country we are told it is, and not the country it was.
How to escape? The beginning, and the most difficult, is a moral distancing. Those who care must disentangle themselves from the cobweb loyalties and factitious duties with which we have been unconsciously encumbered. From childhood we learn patriotism, that one must vote, that if our way is not perfect it is at least best, that we must support anything however bad because we were were born in a particular place. Why?
Let me suggest that one owes loyalty to one's family and friends, to common decency, and to nothing else. Render under Caesar what you must, keep what you can, and swear allegiance to nothing. Here I do not mean just the government, but the zeitgeist, the miasmic fetor of trashy culture, the desperate consumerism, the entire psychic odor of a society in decomposition.
Begin with things so fundamental as seldom to be reflected upon. For example, do not imagine that you are under an obligation to marry, or to have children, or to raise them as the government requires. Procreate if you choose, but only if you genuinely want to procreate. It is not your job to perpetuate a civilization that is daily less deserving of perpetuation.
You will still read of the rot and running sores of a declining culture, but it will bother you less. These things are your problem only to the extent that you feel yourself to be part of the society that produces them. Don't fight the government, as it will win. Don't try to reform society, because you can't. Laugh at it. Live well. Read much.