The Simple Society

The Simple Society

This is my effort at explaining the current state of things, Karl Marx couldn't explain shit to the kids of today, so here is my attempt.
I'll start with a brief explanation of free markets and what that term actually means. To begin with for those that don't know free market economics is the basic model of the big world governments.
This is just a brief explanation of the current way of things if people want to expand it further then there are many books out there on capitalism and free market economics.

Free market is the idea that if the economic system is free from restraints it will balance itself out all in good time, price rises and job losses are all part of this balancing out. What the economists sitting at the top of the chain forget to mention is the idea of profit.
Profit that lines the pockets of the wealthy shareholders and company executives. This profit comes from the worker. For example a contract scaffolder may be getting paid £10 an hour to help rig up some scaffold, now the actual contract for this could be worth thousands to the company.
They pay the scaffolder his £10 an hour, yet within that hour his work to the company could be worth £500 so that other £490 is then profit.
Simple enough. Now the problem lies in the circle the worker finds himself in. Why do most people work, because they have a family to feed and bills to pay.
The food they buy comes from the big supermarkets, the same people who sit on the boards of the super market are the same people who are the major shareholders in other massive corporations. So we go to work and use our pay to buy more things. Our money is constantly in a cycle. But each time it passes through the cycle more profit is made for the wealthy share holders.
These wealthy share holders are often the family of the exact same wealthy upper class families that Marx written about all those years ago.
Still with me?
Good then, the next part of the trick is the television, newspapers and media coverage in general . This elite group then of shareholders also happen to own most of the media from television to newspapers, think Rupert Murdok and sky television, The idea of this then is to keep the worker in a constant state of false happiness, to keep the worker occupied with things that are irrelevant to the real state of affairs brought about by this free market system, or if you like capitalism.
They do this by using all sorts of psychological tricks. Imagine a guy like Derren Brown being employed by the head of advertising to help sell a product. Well more than likely they do employ someone like that.
There are endless amounts of shows on television designed to keep us in our bubbles and not pay much notice to the real world outside but if I was too begin to start a list I would be there for a good while.
A lot of people see capitalism as the only way, but in historic times like these people need to start educating themselves on other methods.
These days communism seems like a dirty word, but the actual principle behind communism is well natured if only it could be agreed on.
The next part of the simple society relies on state fear, once again this power that is used on society comes through the media. We all seen the Chilean miners rescue, but how many questioned its authenticity and instead just accepted that the media would not tell us lies?
Fear is used to confuse and segregate. This is probably one of the oldest tricks those in power have used on the working majority, an old example would be the fear of God, the old religious institutions founded great empires on this fear of the unknown.
Be good children or you will go to hell.
With an estimated £850 Billion passed onto the UK banks from the UK government in 2009 the question remains as to what did that money actually go towards?
Simply so those in power did not lose their grip on us?
Because from where I'm sitting it looks an awful lot like a swindle to keep the rich, rich.
As I'm trying to keep this brief and most importantly understandable I will end it here. But a brief summary goes like this, we work for the wealthy owners, we put our wages into the wealthy owners banking systems, we watch television owned by the wealthy. We spend our money on food and clothing, owned by the wealthy, who over produce far more than needed simply to keep a new appearance emerging. As it goes a friend of mine was recently sacked from his job for using the company van on a weekend to transport some furniture. Fact is all through the week he is using that van to make the company huge profits but when he wanted to use it for his own benefit he was punished by way of the sack. Is that really how company's treat those who make them profit? Unfortunately it is exactly how they treat us.
Until we are free from the shackles they place us in, all some of us can do is watch from the sidelines and try and remember the words of the great man Peter Kropotkin, “treat others how you would be treated yourself”

That's all folks...........