What's going on with me? Well, I use Twitter much less now. Prolly this summer, I was all about it, but now I've got all these random strangers following me, and I don't know what they want to hear. It's too much pressure being that funny in texts.
Ok, so there's more to my life than Twitter. Improv is going strong. Loving it. Got a great troupe and really getting to know them.
Work is crazy but that's cuz it's the holidays. Whadya expect?
Roommate is moving out. And it's prolly for the best. We found another roommate so all is good. My other roommate is good.
In fact, last night we had a conversation, in which I professed that the U.S. is moving towards a communist/socialist state. Capitalism has run its course, and we are starting to see our downfall. I predict that we'll have 2 or 3 more recessions, with very light periods of upturn in the middle that will give us false hope. Each of these recessions will serve to widen the gulf between the super-rich and the poverty class, and dwindle the middle classes (with most of them becoming poverty-stricken). When we've reached the point where we have virtually no middle class (or people who are posing as middle class, but actually deeply in dept - oh wait, no, we have that already), government will no longer have a substantial tax base. Unable to support itself, government has 2 options.
A. To be bailed (bought) out by the super-rich, thus creating a plutarchy (Plutocracy + oligarchy). Some would claim that we will/have become a "corporatocracy." But I think we've seen the start of the decline of certain corporations. Anything can happen from there on out; after all this is AMERICA! But it's worth it to mention that "Marxism-Leninism believes that all capitalist countries follow a plutocratic government mixed with imperialism, and that the only way to change it is through a mass revolution by the proletariat. The plutocratic government's social mobility deficiency is a result of exploitation of the masses, preventing the workers from moving up." I've copied that from Wikipedia. Anyhoo, this option puts us at a workers' revolt.
The other option ...
2. To take control of industries/corporations/businesses in order to support itself. These businesses become government-run and/or subsidized. (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bueller?) The government now controls prices, either through subsidizing or by being competitive (think FDR's New Deal), therefore they also control wages.* The middle class begins to expand again. Because profits from these industries go back in to the government's coffer, the services that government can provide expand.** Moreover, the industries that government now controls become part of the services that they can provide. It could start with something as small as ... say ... health care. Just saying.
*As long as government is not paying factories in other countries, which would be difficult given how many corporations have moved factories to other countries for cheap labor.
**Provided we have leaders who aren't lining their own pockets, which would be difficult given how many politicians line their own pockets.
Both options kinda put us right back at socialism/communism. I doubt we'd have violent revolutions, but maybe that's what people always thought before. You know what? I'm just rambling. But Obama said it was time for change. I think that change will come so slowly that we won't notice it, but it's coming. It's needed.
"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time." --Karl Marx
"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does." --Groucho Marx
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