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Corporate detachment says everything
It is beginning to dawn on the collective human conscience that the corporate monsters that have been running amok on our globe since the end of the Second World War are in need of being taken down at the knees and kicked in the throat.
And then they need to be gently brought back to health, all the while with the firm knowledge batted into their heads that they better act like civilized and caring human beings as opposed to out-of-control, petulant child kings who show constant disdain toward those who they plunder for their riches.
Enough is enough, corporations.
You suck. You know it, we know it, governments know it and the asshole lobbyists they employ to pressure decision makers into failing to make the right decision for the overall good of their electorate and side with those who have fallen deeply into the maw of the evil greed machine, also know it.
It is time to re-insert human beings into your front line, as opposed to glossed over clichés and technological excuses designed to screw people over enough to grind them down and chase them away.
This wee rant developed this morning as E-KNOW did a fairly extensive Google search of Shaw Cable for a contact to email or phone to ask questions about Cranbrook council’s notice in motion last night about being sore about crappy coverage of their meetings, but there appears to be no quick way to contact an actual human being who can get back to us within three days. For example: https://www.shaw.ca/Corporate/Media/ . Anyone see ANYTHING that leads them to feel as though they could contact someone who could give them information aside from how Shaw can continue to extract money from peoples’ pockets?
It is like walking up to a 50 foot high white wall and shouting blindly with the hope someone might hear you. And THAT is what the public relation machine has wrought on our world.
The PR machine really began to rev into high gear back in the early 1990s and today it has firm control of most of the world’s power elite and wannabe power elite. They are in lockstep with lobbyists (some even ARE the lobbyists) and they control the messages.
The media, all-too-often maligned by the average uninformed public person for not ‘doing its job’ or ‘getting the story wrong’ is being constantly beaten down by the PR machine, which is stocked full of former journalists who were lured to the dark side with promises of money and weekends off, as well as benefits, a life, respect from their higher ups and 40 hour work weeks. (PR firms actually pay MONEY to people as opposed to corporations that own media outlets throwing half chewed bones at their journalists, denying them overtime etc., hence the crap work we see all-too-often.)
Poorly paid and weakly staffed news rooms cannot compete with the PR machine that runs just below the slime trail put out by gastopodic corporations inching our world ever closer to apocalyptic hell. Seriously, unless corporations are controlled and unless greed stops being the main motivating factor behind everything they do, and the human equation is re-inserted into the mix as a main ingredient, we all might as well just give up.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, good or bad, right or wrong, at least strongly pointed a finger at that very thing.
What will happen? We believe the corporations and governments ruled by them will brainstorm with their spin doctors and they’ll unleash a storm of bullshit and bafflegab packaged in a grease-stained wrapper and the media they own will spin it further until the baying sheep that is the soft underbelly of disconnected apathy in our world gets into lockstep with the brainwashing and humankind, en masse, once again falls victim to their spells and control.
Worry about religion! Worry about politics! Worry about rocks in space! Worry about natural disasters! Worry about everything. And spend your worries away! Spend, spend, spend! Don’t worry, it’s only credit. Won’t hurt you a bit! Moo-Ah-Ha-Ha!
Occupy Wall Street was a collective moment where a great many people snapped out of the narcotic consumer mist that is daily sprayed into the world via television, the internet, newspapers, billboards and out of the mouths of soulless creeps who live only to make others suffer with their contempt for what is right for their fellow humans (see also: Fox News).
It was a moment where corporations and big governments stopped in their tracks and gulped dry mouthed gawps of trepidation. But the spin machine started going on about the dirty hippies having sex while on drugs on YOUR public property on YOUR dime and before the wealthy who don’t worry about their next month’s mortgage can snarl ‘screw the middle class,’ everyone is back watching idiotic reality TV, or surfing the web for cat porn or staring blankly into their iPhones, mindlessly pushing buttons and jabbering to themselves, like laboratory rats making Pavlov smug.
Social media may one day be the great equalizer, but folks better start getting big-time organized, because control of social media is already underway by the power elite. I am not being paranoid. Open your eyes and accept the truths unfolding before you.
Social media can be shut off. It has been shut off. It’ll be shut off again when the unwashed masses who the governments and corporations could give two stinky farts about decide their bottom line is being impacted.
It is time for the middle class to be re-born in Canada, and the USA. It will require effort. It will require people – en masse – to stop shoving their heads up their bums and shouting “la la la la, I don’t want to hear you!” It will require organization and it will require courage.
It will take sweeping boycotts of corporations – world-wide – via Facebook or Twitter or any of the other mediums out there. It will take concerted focus and determination.
It will take a paradigm shift in how we go about our daily lives. We consumers are the boss because it is OUR money the corporations want but we give it to them bent over and gift wrapped way too often.
Rates go up and top level executives earn record pay and we fork over our dough, yet our world continues to slide away from the solid foundations it sat on just a few short decades ago, when the average Canadian or American COULD get ahead with a little effort. Are we really ALL that freaking stupid? The corporations are banking on it, literally.
Our world is an illusion created by faux wizards with the hearts of oligarchs and despots.
We could stop them in one week. One week of concerted effort, where a large variety of world-wide consumer boycotts and actions would bring them down to their knees. It would also bring our world’s economy to its knees and unleash a financial tsunami that would plunge the world into complete anarchy and chaos, but hey, at least we tried.
But we won’t. We like our things. We like to be able to buy things and wreck them and buy some more because it makes us feel good.
We’re more than happy to pay $1,000 for an electronic gadget that we KNOW will be half that price in a few months when its successor it trotted out, with more bells and whistles than the one you paid twice as much for, and it will also be obscenely over-packaged for the continued salty fingering in the eye to our environment.
If we can get some credit and pay twice as much for something five years down the road, making our final payment rolled into a new loan for a new thing we don’t really need, yay say the lenders!
Even our diversions have become over-the-top stupid with greed and we STILL fork out the money we can’t afford on essentially unnecessary things like professional sports or movie tickets and other entertainment, which is all owned by the corporations.
Does ANYONE NEED to earn $20 million a year playing a game? Apparently so because we consumers say it is so with our support.
The corporations know we’re all about bitching and moaning and doing nothing because they’ve built up such daunting edifices for the average consumer.
There is no lack of people pointing all this out – but corporate PR Igors cleverly tar them as wing nuts and the media adds paint and colour to their spin and the baying glob of humanity that is the consumer mass eats it up along with so-called food that is more preservatives and sodium than actual food. And when that food makes you sick, the insurance you’ve paid for from those very same corporations ends up being null and void because of some miniature font missed when you signed your life over. And the drugs that will be prescribed to you so you can beat back the modern scourges coursing through your riddled bodies will simply keep you enslaved and poor.
Today there is a coronal mass ejection hurtling toward Earth from the Sun.
A part of me hopes it hits full force and fries the world’s electronic grids, plunging us all 200 years back in time – powerless. Because only when we become powerless will we truly become liberated from the hold a tiny number of international corporations hold on us. The brainwashing machines would also be turned off; that would be a damned good thing.
For now, might I suggest to you – the average consumer, just like me – complain more when you get crappy service from companies, like Cranbrook council is doing with Shaw Cable. Good on ‘em. I hope it snaps them around.
Speaking of a brainwashing machine that really does nothing but take money from people: Dear Shaw corporate communications, if there is such a shadow operation – if you really give a crap, which we doubt you do, email us at: [email protected] with your comments on Cranbrook’s view of your service, or provide some excuses why your service has become so lousy.
Ian Cobb/e-KNOW
