Saturday, September 8, 2012

Stockholder Mentality vs Social Equity


I've reached the conclusion that the fundamental problem with society is the Stockholder Mentality, which is the opposite of Social Equity. Gandhi is no longer the crowned king of philanthropy. No, the social activist award has to be given to Sir Wilfred Grenfell of Labrador via England. His work was done on the behalf of god and the only profit he earned was the ability to live in a thriving healthy society. If you think that is not enough profit then you are a fucking asshole who probably owns Apple stock. I'm not done investigating the source of this poisonous mental delusion that would make someone invest in a company with the sole aim of benefiting financially. It's childish and fucked up and selfish and pathetic. That our whole country's economic system is basically one of rampant exploitation in order to better reward a handful of stockholders is proof that something is terribly wrong. 1940 America was absolutely no different than today. Proportionately there is the same amount of poverty and working class poor. If you say that the standard of living is better it's probably because your standard of living is primarily provided for by strangers working their asses off in fields that you will never see doing work that you'll never appreciate. The demand of procreating has led to an abundance of labor that lowers wages. It's simple math to see that not everyone can own their own electrical repair business and not everyone can be an electrical repair man. The pizza price war in NY goes on everywhere with plumbers underbidding each other until death.

But the stockholder mentality has deeper implications that I can't explain. Grenfell knew that his work would elevate man and that would let him live with elevated men. Steve Jobs knew that his product would increase productivity for business and so it would be valuable and would make money. The chasm of philosophical affectation is so dramatic. Jobs is worshiped; Grenfell is unknown. My statement is that the only reward or profit you should be interested in is a community that is healthy and stable and self-sufficient. If you quibble with that they you have been totally brainwashed by the federal reserve ponzi scheme insanity. It's crazy that I would need to explain this and defend it like it's some kind of subversive theory of satanic proportions but it bears repeating: All you should be interested in a return on your investment is a healthy community with stable members and strong support systems. If your first concern is your stockholder statement then you have sold your soul and the 30 million prisoners and juvenile detention centers and hundreds of millions of welfare families eating fake government cheese are completely caused by your selfish grasping and short-sighted lunacy. Whatever justification you have for amassing fortunes by investing financially are defeated if one merely scratches the surface of your pathetic institutions and your complacent idiocy. Your ten seconds of security are stolen from ten decades of crippled destruction. All that matters is your community. Grenfell is the model of social equity, reinvesting his own labor and profit into the community, taking nothing more than he expected others to have, believing that every person can have a high quality of life as long as that is the chief goal of the members of the community. And why shouldn't it be? The absentee landlord attitude is repulsive to me and a sign of degraded philosophy and geometry. People cluck their tongues and shake their heads at the very deprivation they cause with the rape of resources to uplift gate communities. We're in dark dark ages and must be too depraved to recover. But this central battle between two opposites can't be abandoned. I'm telling you that evil forces have enveloped the media with their stockholding madness and we must resist them. Simplify. Beautify. Tangible profits require trust in your neighbor and not building gates to lock them out. Let me say that the difference between St. Anthony, New Foundland and Corpus Christi, Texas is like night and day and the reason is one was developed under the influence of social equity and the other was developed for stockholder profit. I could travel for weeks in Labrador before I met someone who was a convicted felon and if I did meet one he'd probably be American.



It's a big surprise I'm eating alone.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The way you describe listening to your compatriots is just the thing Brad would get me to do back in the day. We didn't have to respect anyone, we didn't have to care, we didn't even have to like them, all we had to do is search out and listen to the craziest, sickest, most depraved shit we could. Or even if it was just boring it was good to listen to them. Shit look at walt, that was half the reason we spent so much time with him, the guy could spin a yarn and who cared if he was telling the truth or lying.
As for your writing and what anonymous said, bullshit he writes for me. He knows I will read it and comment cause I know he is fucked. He got on his own special shit train, the stops are his, the yards are his and he can get on or off when ever he likes. It is his train. I tried to have a blog and you commented on it. I wanted to be the unknown 200 million. It didn't work and I clammed up. I sit sometimes and run through stories in my head and edit them and work them through and have outlines and all that shit but I will be damned if I sit and write that shit down for someone I know to see. Because of facebook, google + and whatever else I will not participate. You won't see my rants and late night thoughts.

...hecomeback has balls. I wouldn't be able to write those things down. I told him that. Even now I have to come up with another handle cause you outed me in this post, bitch.

I am counting on you to keep calling rush limbaugh a cunt. If you don't I will stop reading. It won't be the same.

I guess the other alternative to writing the blog is going back to reading your chicken scratch in letters, but it wouldn't be the same as I don't think I would get the full oggy effect. Videos, photos, complete essays, all of the ramblings. If you went back to letter writing I would only get select items meant for me. this way I get it all. I can pick and chose.

Ok then Fuck the marketing. Keep writing for me. I will keep on reading.....
Poncho (bitch)

Oggy Bleacher said...

thanks for the comments. The Honduran library cop is escorting me out the door.

Oggy Bleacher said...

Rush Limbaugh is a fuck hole. hahahaha

Oggy Bleacher said...

As for writing, it's not easy to do it when you're fed and happy with a roof over your head. No one can remember hard times and write about them when they are living the good life. And good times don't make good writing. It's the paradox of the craft. When William .T Vollmann writes I'm convinced he's truthful. When I'm in a nice apartment with no police at my door my writing isn't as good. I need the conflict to inspire me and the conflict is actually killing me slowly so it translates to the page. I'm a sinking boat and writing helps me describe how big the hole is. And no one wants to read about a boat that never leaks. Either you invent problems or you live problems. If I could write about my past problems as well as I can write about my current problems I'd be in good shape. Don't listen to me. I live in a van.

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