It is no good, but not bad neither.
Economically, Marx turned out to be right, unfortunately. He warned at the beginning of industrialisation that our market system would end in monopoles, that the way of the society he lived in would be doomed to fail and gave improvement suggestions based on village life examples, which were turned into a system even worse than ours by those most likely badly misunderstanding him.
When we go into a shop, we see hundreds of different brands selling the same item, like Spaghetti or a Blue-Ray Player, but it is only a few companies and even fewer investment companies actually being in charge of these brands competing with each other. This is not real competition by our own market laws definition of competition.
Battery cars are supposed to be the next big thing and arguments are fancy words, white papers suggesting average life spans on up to 18 years for car and battery and no one sais that we managed to burn fossile fuels down to about 50 to 60 years remaining availability. All high tech materials from Carbon Fibre to Nylon Fibres need fossile raw materials, too.
We buy trash we don't need, that makes us happy for about 3 months until we start checking out the next another luxurious watch we need, and all know about it. Like Charly Chaplin failed to stop the nightmare of the second world war come true by his movie The Dictator being called a comedy, Fight Club does not stop our marketing ruled all advert markets from exploiting the working poor no matter how smart or intelligent, because it is just an action movie.
Stocks are no shares no more and investment banker means trader, but as in speculation or gambling trying to find the next big shot increasing stock price instead of becoming a partial owner of the company and all those having extra cash for the broker app consider their green number profit, as if a product in a shelf made profit based on the price tag instead of some one cashing it out at the cashier.
Some might even know that the worst crash in Wall Street history was created by investments based on credit. So, in the 1920, the same time Kokain was legally available and hit the streets over the pharmacy counter, bankers gave as security for a loan their stock portfolio and bought even more stocks to than again take a loan. In a previous post I linked a Wall Street Journal headline about the rich spending based on credits against their stock portfolio. A yacht creates ROI over stocks?
A Virus hit us hard and the political leadership went all in for the biggest medical experiment in human history. We already managed to create super resistant bacteria in hospitals, by most likely cleaning way to ambitiously everything and all creating that horrible hospital smell everybody ignores. A cold is over killed by anit-biotics initially created to help us going through sever injuries avoiding wound infections instead of about two weeks at home. Immune system over reaction appear to be even worse than a immune system total collaps by the HIV virus of which how it jumps from one to another is not really fully logically explained in the net anywhere, but by sexual intercause. (If I jerk of me seed into her pussy, who do I get HIV, especially since my spit is anti bacterial and eating pussy is or is not infectious as I wanna lick it before I stick it? If the anal first part in, has more HIV viruses how does it get into my blood, if I have no open wounds on my thingy and the tiny whole is a one way out passage?)
The entire school system is based on repetition no further questions asked and learning does not require understanding, but is based on a plan for all instead of individual interests and research. All follow one and Charlies are as rare in that system as dead poet societies, while fraternities with open or hidden agendas against freedom are plenty and influential without being in the movies.
The military has problems recruiting and blames the youngsters getting soft instead of reconsidering their principles. Even so it got better from Verdun, where Officers practically murdered their soldiers, movies based on real missions such as from Black Hawk Down to The Valley do not give the impression that today's military leadership got any wiser. What do they think will happen, if a platoon of soldiers gets out of a trench into an open field full of barbwire and runs into a machine gun line of fire? Any chance that driving with light armoured vehicles to get civilians into unprotected trucks out of an urban chaos play ground of armed militias on drugs outnumbering the own forces by about 10 to 1 is a bad idea? Who would have thought that a stronghold in a deep valley surrounded by steep mountain walls is a death trap, considering that castles are build on top of mountains since about ever?
Secret Services are today by leaks known to be the best organised and most safe, because legal, entities breaking laws from their own to those of allies, enemy and even and most fundamental human rights turning constitutions and the UN human rights charta into web page poetry.
And than YouTube told me that the biggest swimming slum based in Lagos, Nigeria, has no Police yet a little crime rate making me wonder if this is because there is no reason to commit a crime based on nothing to go for by real poverty, the laws create no crime by absence or, if they proof that we neither need teachers or education as suggested by Pink Floyd nor a controlling Police force, if we are all just all poor fucks as in have nothing at all.
Fight Club ends in the total destruction of all credit records by brute force. That minute after the buildings collapsing, you own only those things you can physically touch within your reach and you have a key to. If along with those files also all asset records are gone some might have trouble proofing that that pool on that islands really is their own, despite the key, companies might have forgotten which real estate complex they rule and who the actual owner of that ware house is. Would that be full chaos armed or full freeze shocked?
The only thing that annoys me is, if we all go back to what was normal before Corona. Work based on certificates that daily life proofs to be overrated at least for the job getting done, yet are deciding the wage level and corporate titel, week-end excess to cope with the work days torture, recreation by drug use, fake smiles and even worse compliments to get promoted for cash for even more future trash produced far away we need to impress others and for unwanted surprise presents twice a year.
I was two years a Clochard de Paris and ten years a corporate guy on a tiny but nice career path. I take the Clochard anytime again over just another month at a corporate desk. I take Black Hawk Down for real getting shot over the Wolf of Street even altering the end by cancelling prison time, Fight Club over Suites and the Punisher over Good Will Hunting. I am a Cyberpunk...within nations failing, but in ignorance leading themselves only.
