Condition: BRB

OregonMuse... 02

"Before the rush to canonize this whole 'trans' thing, I think we should remind ourselves of a few basic facts: if a man puts on a dress and calls himself "Charlotte", he's not a woman, he's a mentally ill man with a woman's name wearing a dress. If he starts receiving female hormone injections, he's still not a woman, he's a mentally ill man with a woman's name wearing a dress, with messed up body chemistry. If he undergoes gender reassigment surgery, he's still not a woman, he's a mentally ill man with a woman's name wearing a dress, with messed up body chemistry and no penis. If he gets a document from a court or other government agency saying he's a woman, he's still not a woman, he's a mentally ill man with a woman's name wearing a dress, with messed up body chemistry, no penis, and a legal document that caters to his delusion. And if he and his friends manage to get a law passed that says he must be addressed by the female pronouns he prefers, he's still not a woman, he's a mentally ill man with a woman's name wearing a dress, with messed up body chemistry, no penis, a legal document that caters to his delusion, and backed with the force of law. To sum all of this up: He's still a man, baby! And do you know what the funny part of all this is? The people who are vigorously pushing this like to think of themselves as the party of science."

http://ace.mu.nu/

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https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/03/xx-xy.html

https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2018/11/as-it-is.html

Well, Mr Leibowitz*

I can't help but think what an incredible metaphor this room is for the entire process getting health care and benefits for 9/11 first responders has come to—behind me a filled room of 9/11 first responders and in front of me a nearly empty Congress," "Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak, to no one. Shameful." Jon Stewart

I thank you for your sincere statement, Jon.  It is shameful no one cares anymore.  Did you expect Congress of all people to care?  Why don't you take them to Cuba for medical care, that would be funny.  Oh, right. It's already been done.

Are you rethinking your role in fostering the cognitive dissonance in this country?  A comedian posing as a news anchor for 15 or more years?  Pointing fingers and laughing at everything for a cheap laugh.  Now you are serious, haven't been in your entire public life.  Everything was open to riducule on your show and are you going take responsibility for your dismissive, divissive spawn Colbert, Oliver and Bee?  People now take their schtik as funny.  They are forefront and destructive to rational, concerned thinking. I even blame you for Rachel Maddow.

Saturday Night Live is what represents 'comedy' these days.  Character assassination, overwrought trivial hammerings and bad impersonations.  All for a cheap laugh.  Don't you see, Mr Leibowitz, your role in lowering even the low standards of comedy?  Comedy is weaponized, aimed at your political enemies. And your style and show made it fashionable.  No one takes anything seriously, not when a thousand cuts can be applied. When you get applause, not laughs, it's propaganda.

These first responders may need health care, for sure, but what they really need is the truth.  What is it that they breathed during those few weeks of rescue attempts? Before the melted gold was found and the search stopped?  Nanoparticles, radiation, thermite or what?  Why did all the Scent Dogs die on the same day at Ground Zero?  What caused the building to free fall, Jon?  Pick up that line of thinking.  Be really serious, career ruining serious, and I'll listen.

I do compliment you for your efforts on their behalf.

Tailgunner Joe*

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

by M. Stanton Evans | Nov 24, 2009

Tailgunner Joe

Joe McCarthy is the poster boy for the 'Shoot the Messenger' mindset of this country. In a recent Jeopardy episode an answer was "He never named a Communist", of course, "Who was Senator Joe McCarthy", the question. Tailgunner Joe named hundreds of Communists, removed hundreds of security risks and fulfilled a role no one in government had the backbone to take on. I have learned through this book to admire him greatly.

History has not been kind to St. Joseph of Wisconsin. To get a genuine feel for the man one has to read the times and understand the men involved in context. Throw away the repeated lies, mis-information and disinformation surrounding the Senate investigations during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. Understand that the House committee on UnAmerican Activities, the Dies Commision, was up and running for 10 years before McCarthy showed up in Congress in 1948. McCarthy at first picked up some unfinished investigations and appealed to his Senate colleagues to look into the affairs of the Government, mostly the State Department. Sen. Tidings (D, MD), Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, had the State Department investigate Joe for his uppityness. He was run through the wringer, but had nothing to hide. I'm glad to say it only made him ornrier.

The Truman administration covered for extremely questionable people, and allowed the influence of these advisers to undercut Chiang Kai Chek, allowing and supporting Mao. They yielded and gave away the store at the Yalta conference. Whatever Truman did to put a face on his show anti-Communist policy was done in reaction to McCarthy's persistent questioning. At this time, America was only a few years away from Russia being our ally. There was a transition of diplomats, or was there? At the same time, Kim Philby and the Cambridge 5 spy ring were in the highest levels of the UK. Philby defected when the noose was tightening.

When Eisenhower was sworn in, he had historical bodies needing to stay buried. It was an interesting time of a Republican President surrounded with Democrat advisers. McCarthy became Chairman of the Committee and followed FBI reports highlighting infiltrating agents like Markwood and whistle-blowers Bentley and Chambers. He had some good info on the CP and he was doggedly, with Roy Cohn and Robert Kennedy, following through. (Interestingly, RFK's first child Kathleen has Joe McCarthy as her Godfather. And Roy Cohn was Trump's mentor.) The Venona papers released in 1995 by the KGB archives seems to corroborate his suspicions. It's Joe's speech semi-accusing Gen Marshall of either treason or incompetence in his handling/bumbling of international affairs, particularly the Far East, that got under Eisenhower's skin. His continued looking into security breeches in the US Army, mostly in Monmouth, NJ, coincidentally where the Rosenberg/Sobell cell was centered, that set the General on course to destroy Joe.

The record of Senator McCarthy stands for itself, and I'm glad Stan Evans actually went and read it and brought it forward in this book. The term 'Russian Collusion' is thrown around today by the elitist Democrats even when they can't prove it. In the 50's, the idea was put forward by a homegrown Republican and proven in spades. Fake news and media character assassination at the advent of television on Joe McCarthy were practice runs to the cognitive dissonance the American people suffer from today. Told who to hate by the Idiot Box, the draining of the swamp will not happen because the public believes lying Hollywood movies before their own common sense. 

I'll take Dis-information for 1000, Alex.

Bing.

Inability to see the Truth

What is McCarthyism?

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=blacklisted+by+history+the+untold+story+of+senator+joe+mccarthy&i=stripbooks&crid=E4LWHA8D0RTY&sprefix=blacklisted+in+history%2Caps%2C327&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_22

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 https://www.realhistorychannel.org/joe-mccarthy-vs-joe-welch:-the-real-story

http://tomatobubble.com/eisenhower_destroyed_gop.html

http://tomatobubble.com/id1264.html

Clueless in Chicago*

Clueless In Chicago

Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.) Posted: Jun 10, 2019 https://townhall.com/columnists/sheriffdavidclarke(ret)/2019/06/10/clueless-in-chicago-n2547840

Another summer in the City of Chicago starts with a bang. No pun intended as 52 people were shot, 10 fatally in street violence. On Memorial Day it was 30 shot with five killed. That’s right. You read that correctly: 82 people shot leaving 15 dead—not in the first five months of the year—not in the last 30 days— not even in the previous week! Two weekends is all it took. ...Most violence in the American ghetto involves blacks killing other blacks. This is complicated for liberals and Democrats. They can’t blame this on “whitey,” systemic racism, the police or the National Rifle Association. The cultural rot involved in this violence has the left tied in knots.

... The junk science of liberal critical race theory has convinced judges and prosecutors to look at the race of the offender and all the injustices done to black people over time and give that more weight in sentencing than the perpetrator's action that landed them in a courtroom. The left is systematically ridding the criminal justice system of the vital tool of incarceration. They claim that too many young black men are locked up, even those jailed for serious crimes and those involving repeat offenders. Not locking up violent criminals leaves them on the street to commit more crime because there is no fear of swift and severe consequences for their unwanted behavior.

... Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun ownership laws in America, yet the violence persists. Legal gun ownership occurs throughout the state of Illinois; however, gun violence is not evenly distributed. It is concentrated in the ghetto where black people predominantly reside. That means there is a black cultural connection to the violence. 

... The law-abiding people in the Chicago ghetto deserve better protection than they are getting from these criminal apologist Democratic officials. The mayor needs to demand a plan of action with measurables, not platitudes, from Superintendent Johnson. 

...The stakes are too high for feckless leadership. Bodies are stacking up like cord wood, and the summer has just begun. Johnson is either incapable or incompetent. Lightfoot needs to tell him that if the violence doesn’t start to decrease significantly by July 4th, he’ll be replaced with someone who can and will. Enough is enough. 

Sheriff David Clarke Jr. is former Sheriff of Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, President of AmericasSheriff LLC, Senior Advisor for America First, author of the book Cop Under Fire: Beyond Hashtags of Race Crime and Politics for a Better America. 

To learn more visit www.americassheriff.comCop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better AmericaBy Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. (Hardcover - Feb 28, 2017)$3.01$21.99Rated 5 out of 5 by 651 reviewers on Amazon.comBuy Now 

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https://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2019/01/buh-bye-chicago.html

http://escapedwageslave.blogspot.com/2018/11/crime-is-down.html

https://pjmedia.com/trending/will-chicago-be-the-largest-u-s-city-to-declare-bankruptcy/

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According to Orkin, the pest control company, Chicago is the "rattiest" city in the United States. In 2018, the Second City ranked first in the number of residential and commercial rodent treatments the company performed. For the fifth consecutive year.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/chicago_the_rattiest_city_in_america_according_to_top_pest_control_company.html#ixzz64QZMRoJR

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It also means that in that same period, roughly 26 Chicagoans were shot for every American soldier wounded in Afghanistan.

The vast majority of victims are black: 82.7% of homicide victims in Chicago this year are black, 12.3% Hispanic, and 3.5% White/other, with 1.5% unknown. The racial breakdown of Chicago is 45% white, 32.9% black. Therefore, blacks are roughly 2.5 times more likely to be shot or killed than whites.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/democrats_ignore_mass_shootings_of_blacks_in_chicago.html

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Get the Hell Out
On October 5, I commented Escape Illinois: Get The Hell Out Now, We Are
Goodbye Illinois. Hello Utah. See my reasons for Utah above.
If you can't get out of Illinois, do the second best thing, Get the Hell Out of Chicago.
By the way, Chicago is not "headed" for insolvency, it's already there, but it is just not recognized yet.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock

https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/chicago-headed-for-insolvency-get-the-hell-out-now-xcoqtVa-aU-59yW-lFqYBw/

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2019 MURDERS BY CPD DISTRICTS (through Sunday, November 10th)

Each "x" equals one Murder.

NOTE: The 11th District also leads the City in Total Part I Violent Crimes Index (Murder, Criminal Sexual Assault, Robbery and Aggravated Battery), "Shooting Incidents" and Motor Vehicle Theft. 011 is the only district in which Part I Violent Crimes surpass Part I Property Crimes.

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017: xxxxx (5)

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020: (0)

SOURCE: Chicago Police Department

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Organized shoplifting teams, some taking advantage of children who appeared to be no more than 10-years-old, struck retailers repeatedly this weekend in the Loop, Magnificent Mile, and Lincoln Park, according to police reports.

One crew pepper-sprayed a retail worker. Last Wednesday, another theft team slammed a store employee’s head into a glass merchandise case.

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Retailers are dealing with a wave of organized shoplifting teams that frequently use juveniles to do their dirty work. North Side locations of Forever 21, H&M, Ulta Beauty, DSW, Patagonia, and Burlington have been struck repeatedly — sometimes twice within hours.

https://cwbchicago.com/2019/11/kids-some-only-10-years-old-join-weekend-shoplifting-mobs.html

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THE MASS SHOOTING YOU DIDN’T (AND WON’T) HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT | CHICAGO DOESN’T COUNT
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4za5mxKBsYs/

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Wesley says... 017

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1) NPR's 'Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me' radio show reminds me of snarky high school girls at the lunch room table.

2) The only thing sadder than a delusional person is people humoring a delusional person.

3) Do only fat and unhealthy people go to free outdoor music events?

4) I am bigger fan of Hank WIlliams than Radiohead.

5) Doesn't anyone remember Allan Fish? Bring your mitt.

Pay attention to the game.

6) How much 'togetherness' do you have in your life?

7) Don't care about your genitals or what you do with them. Don't care about your skin color or the bad behavior connected to it.  I care about you.

8) I'm a masculinist.  I'm glad soon all female sports records will be held by dickless biological males.

9) PEOPLE:  Get over yourselves.  You are not special.

10) Anyone notice that the US government states UFOs exist?

AFL-CIO? Crickets.

      This New Robot Will Take Millions Of Warehouse Jobs

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/new-robot-will-take-millions-warehouse-jobs

by Tyler Durden

Tue, 06/04/2019

The automation wave is expected to dramatically reshape the US economy in the 2020s. This disruption will impact the labor force and cause tremendous job losses. By 2030, automation could eliminate 20% to 25% of current jobs -- equivalent to 40 million displaced workers, hitting the bottom 90% of Americans the hardest

.... The collision of automation on the labor force will lead to severe economic dislocation that could depress wages and lead to an even wider gap in wealth inequality that would have significant economic and social ramifications. Nevertheless, millions of Americans will lose their jobs.

Labor is Lost

Laid Off GM Workers in Ohio Fed Up with Ruling Class: ‘Nobody Has Our Backs

by John Binder June 2, 2019

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/02/laid-off-gm-workers-in-ohio-fed-up-with-ruling-class-nobody-has-our-backs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+breitbart+%28Breitbart+News%29

Middle-class Americans whose livelihoods have been thrown off course after being laid off by General Motors (GM) in Lordstown, Ohio, are fed up with the country’s political and business ruling class in Washington, DC.

... Laid off Americans in Lordstown, in interviews with the New York Times, expressed frustration and disdain for the country’s political and business elite, the ruling class that they say has ignored them for decades as free trade deals have gutted the middle class and allowed multinational corporations to send high-paying manufacturing jobs to China and Mexico in order to boost profits and cut costs.

... Shawn Wodogaza, a recently laid off Lordstown GM worker, told the Times he voted for Trump as well but that he is lost politically; he and others feel that the plight of the middle class is lost on the country’s elected political establishments and certainly corporate executives.

“Well, now what? What the heck do we do? Do we go back to beating our heads against the wall? Or do we try something different?” Wodogaza continued.

“I don’t know where to go,” Wodogaza said in an interview with the Times.

Political thoughts... 012

1) Drug addicts like their homelessness.  The truly homeless will find help.

2) As far as the upcoming Presidential election, I'll ask my horse. Maybe my dog should get a vote.

3) Woody Guthrie was a musical propagandist.

4) Every political event is staged.  Politicians are only actors.

5) Abortion is not birth control.

6) We already have a giant asshole as President, Beto. Thanks.

7) I wish all sex would be private.

8) I don't vote for someone who lies.

9) In political discussions, I'm either the stick or the drum. 

10) Red Tie Trump, Blue Tie Trump, No Tie Trump

New Moon Desires... 05

New Moon IN/ Full Moon OUT

1) Breathing good, clean air.

2) Eating food without chemical additives, pesticides or preservatives.

3) Making music that heals.

4) H2O without flouride.

5) Recognizing truth from propaganda.

6) Thinking with intention.

7) Traveling with destination.

8) Loving and caring for those close.

9) Protecting small animals from predators.

10) Asking for help when needed.

Too Stoned

Are You Sleeping Through A Revolution?

by Mike Stone

(henrymakow.com) June 1, 2019

In one of his better-known speeches, Martin Luther King, Jr. urged his audience to remember Washington Irving's story of Rip Van Winkle, the layabout who reclined under a tree and fell asleep for 20 years. King stressed the hidden message that old Rip literally slept through the American Revolution. 

To King, the idea that someone could lie sleeping while the world transformed around them was absolutely horrifying. In King's words: 'There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution." 

Now King was a Communist dupe, and the revolution he was fermenting was designed to destroy America, but he was right: there is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.

As I type these words, a revolution is occurring, both in this country and throughout the world. The target of destruction is predominantly white men, but it includes anyone who holds traditional conservative values. If you're a conservative or even someone who sympathizes with conservative values, there's a target on your back. Sadly, the vast majority of those under attack are not even aware that they are targets. They're literally sleeping through a revolution.

Some of these individuals are beyond repair. The liberals who make up the Democratic Party, the protesters who march down the street in their pink pussy hats, virtually all of Hollywood and Silicon Valley ... That bunch can't be helped. The fires of hell await them.

But why do others refuse to wake up? Why do otherwise intelligent people fail to see the danger and fate that awaits them? 

Many are simply duped. Led by their noses, they believe whatever the gatekeepers of the right tell them. After all, if their favourite fake-conservative radio host or television personality tells them that race is a social construct, that vaccines are safe and effective, or that Israel is our greatest ally, well then it has to be true, doesn't it?

Because most whites and most conservatives are honest in their daily lives, they find it hard to accept that others who look the same as they do and who profess to speak to their same interests could be lying to them. The possibility is simply unfathomable.

This naiveté on their part leads them to underestimate the level of evil being directed against them. They think leftists are merely misguided individuals with an irrational hatred of Donald Trump. "If only those liberals had the facts," these conservatives like to say, "they would think and act just like us."

Fat chance. Truth and honesty are not liberal values. The reality is most leftists would like to see the vast majority of whites and conservatives dead and buried. Six feet under. Rotting in the grave. 

Exactly how these leftists expect the country to function once all the whites are dead is anybody's guess, as history has provided us with countless examples of cities, regions, and even entire countries crumbling into disarray once white people are gone. Indeed, if every white person in the United States and Canada were to disappear tomorrow, within ten years North America would devolve into the biggest shithole in the history of civilization. Try explaining that to your conservative friends. They won't be your friends much longer.

Trying to wake white people up from their slumber is a draining task. No matter what facts you give them, no matter how strong your argument, no matter how convincing the evidence, they will continue to believe what they want to believe. They're too busy binge-watching Netflix (not to mention porn) to be confused with facts.

I used to send five-minute videos to a friend of mine, hoping they would supply enough evidence of Democratic corruption to convince him not to vote their party ticket any longer. He told me to stop sending the videos. Did he watch them, I asked? No, and he didn't want to. He'd rather watch the latest Star Wars movie.

Prior to the 2016 election, a couple of girls at a Farmer's Market booth that I frequent told me they were both voting for Killary. I printed a couple of pages off the internet with details about Benghazi, the Clinton hit list, the Vince Foster murder, and the missing emails. The next time I saw them I gave them each a copy.

Two weeks later I asked if they had read the material. They both shook their heads. "Why not?" I asked. "I was too busy," one replied. "You could read those pages here in five minutes," I said, "while waiting for customers." The busy one shrugged. "If it was a romance novel, I would have read it."

Then there are those who want to believe, who actually do believe, but they're too frightened of being ridiculed or ostracized by their friends, family, or peers to do anything about it. The term "conspiracy theory" was invented for these very people in order to shame them into submission. Utter those two words and you'll see these individuals scurrying under the nearest rock. They care more about social status than they do about truth, justice or even life itself.

One of the hardest life lessons I ever learned was realizing that the vast majority of people on this planet are no different than sheep. They can be herded and controlled, and taught what to think and how to think.

Narcissism plays a part too, as most of them are too prideful to consider the possibility that they've been conned all their life.

As Gil Scott-Heron famously wrote, the revolution will not be televised. There's no need to televise it. People are too busy sleeping.

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Mike Stone is the author of A New America, the first novel of the Alt-Right, a dark comedy set on Election Day 2016 in Los Angeles - - Available on Amazon. His book, "It's OK to be White" was banned by Amazon.

Going Postal II*

I'm not sure if the shooting in Virginia Beach yesterday was another round of bullshit, but it was reported as done by a disgruntled worker, similar to the shooting in Aurora, IL in February.

This is a republish from January 20, 2009 from EWS.

 http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Columbine/dp/1932360824/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231953797&sr=1-1

A must read for any workplace stressed out person in this Century of Despair. The last two decades changed the American minds, capturing and corporatizing it, giving management perspective to any problems confronted. A very usatisfying life for the sensitive, thinking person results if on the plantation, in the workplace or high school grind.

Mark Ames makes a compelling case that shooting rampages in the workplace or schoolyard are analogous to slave rebellions in early American history. Slaves didn't normally revolt, and when they did, they did not get the sympathy of their fellow slaves. Everyone was about maintaining the status quo, screaming about the injustice of it all only makes one mentally ill and harshly dealt with. Now on the moral high round, this society holds John Brown or Nat Turner as heroes, but in their day they were hearing voices in their heads, seeing visions, and planning attacks on "innocent" citizens to call for righting a human wrong. What seems abhorrant to shocked Middle America, the popular status of school shooters like Harris or Klebold or Anorexic Andy or a giddy laugh about postal workers' rage attacks defies the accepted myths of the current culture that we live in the"land of the free." Some people do get it - it's not the sick people doing the awful deeds, it's the sick conditions of the workplace and the schol systems that drive them to act in such an awful manner.

This book begins in the Reagan Revolution - a revolution of the mind that place durring the 80's. Destroying unions to help working people. Attempting to eliminate the Dept of Education to help students. Social services are unneeded as only the undeserrving get it. Turn your head to the homeless, don't care, just don't look into their eyes. War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength, etc. 1984 did arrive right on time and the descriptive background of Orwell is present in the world today. Before going forward with this plan, first it was essential to remove deeply held human components, like compassion and peace, and replace them with competition and stress. This was heralded as the correct way to think and any other expressions were to be degraded, dismissed and devalued, as kindness usually doesn't lead to money. Money being the only reason to exist according to this new world order. Having concern for those of disadvataged means, advocating for human rights, crying for the innocent and injured of the warfare state makes one perceived as mentally ill, not as someone living in a sick society. The state will punish such actions that arise from human compassion ruthlessly, no matter how innocent or inconvenient. This is the Reagan Doctrine.

Parents on the hampster wheel of providing a good home and a good school for their children bring their overworked stress to their already overstressed children, put into a pressure cooker of test grades and college admissions. Striving to get ahead while resources are disappearing in this country, combined with the philisophical fog of "personal responsibility" concerning all choices in ones' life, has created a perculating internalized rage within its' population. Seeking to help people is considered a foolish career move. Cheating in school tests are all too common, as is the parents' careers in finance, real estate and most occupations. The stress is passed, the cycle continues, and the disspirited citizen carries the weight until he or she cracks, feeding the pharmacutical industry and dying slowly inside.

I melted down. I couldn't take it anymore. This book went a long way to explain why the external world seems so harsh and unlivable in this country today. I don't want to cooperate in promoting these crushing concepts put forth as "normal". The structures are corrupt because the personal relationships are corrupt. We see each other as marks, as someone to gain an advantage from. It's deeply ingrained now and the newest generation has no other framework to compare. "Me First" makes perfect sense right from the womb and where exactly can they see another example? I've dropped out because I feel so unwelcome wherever I go, especially the workplace. I want to work in a cooperative manner, live in a cooperative home situation, and surrounded by kind people in my social life. I believe if I wait long enough in my lotus position, all these wishes will come to pass.  Reagan be damned.