Capitalist Swine!

Where capitalism
goes sour is when
people assume that
with great power
doesn't necessarily
come great responsibility.

I'm just a little
sick of revisionist
history. Let the facts
fall where they may,
not where you'd
like them to, or
how the popular voices
would interpret them.

The Clintonians sat
on one of America's
greatest eras of
prosperity, and took
it all for granted.

They sat by and
played politics
while the New Fade
started to chug
along by itself,
willfully guiding
a train to globalization
without representation.

The corporate machine
took over, and made
good on the slogan
"Greed is Good."

It was around this time
that Scott Adams
first envisioned
the cubicle slave
Dilbert, the man with
the upturned tie,
who began a narrative
of the culture as
it steamrolled to
the current depression.

It astounds me that
we debate the ethics
of war and the need
for global prosperity
while Bono tries
to be a rockstar and
a humanist, and no one
much cares for either one;
he may be Lennon's
successor, his better,
but you would never know it.

Money over happiness,
"realism" over optimism,
the needs of the few
past the needs of the many,
demand over supply,
the idea that gross natural product
must be gross, it's hard
to look up when the sky's
always falling.

Sometimes it's difficult
to admit I'm American.