The War, and other filthy Socialism

[mnaz]

I went to see a man about a horse,
and a horse went to see about a man,
see how he held up under his own crushing speech,
and the pundits out on K Street, trading pornography,
carving up ancient bloodlines and selling them off.
Uplift the race, for a suitable sum.

Socialism is a failed state, and it surely rots the will,
coerced into sending another billion to feed the troops,
to fight the scourge of socialism, or latest ism,
to become the scourge, for a suitable sum,
to collect thy mercenary welfare,
for a suitable sum.

[stilltrucking]

well done

[Totenkopf]

Interesting. A bit Thomas Hardy like. War profiteering is a rather sinister business however: practiced by all sorts of imperialists.

Rather superior to most of the wannabe Bukowski dreck one sees on online writing sites.

(It could be some bubblegum rock band: The Wannabe Bukowskis! Yeah yeah yeah. Just scribble some obscenities about strippers, booze, a bit of dope, set to toe-tapping beat: goils go crazay.)

Carry on.

0600 hour.

[Arcadia]

K Street... I already heard that somewhere!!

[mnaz]

The good, god-fearin' 'Mehr-ri-can people be hatin' the socialism thing fer shere, but are (in)curiously numb to corrupt, runaway corporate war and welfare... Odd thing.

[stilltrucking]

"If you are so smart, why ain't you rich"

I am a rugged individualist myself.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five, speaking through Howard W. Campbell, 1966:

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, "It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be." It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: "If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?" There will also be an American flag no larger than a child's hand -- glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.