The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality (30 page)

The unemployed looked blankly at each other, but the rest of the crowd only laughed.
 
And then the unemployed began to abuse the kind-hearted Capitalist, demanding that he should give them some of the necessaries of life that he had piled-up in his warehouses or; to be allowed to work again and produce some more for their own needs; and even threatened to take some of the things by force if he did not comply with their demands.
 
But the kind-hearted Capitalist told them not to be insolent and spoke to them about honesty and said if they were not careful, he would have their faces battered-in for them by the police or if necessary he would call out the military and have them shot down like dogs, the same as he had done before at Featherstone and Belfast.

‘Of course…’, continued the kind-hearted Capitalist, ‘…if it were not for foreign competition I should be able to sell these things that you have made and then I should be able to give you Plenty of Work again, but until I have sold them to somebody or other or used them all myself, you will have to remain idle’.

…Philpot held out his cap for [charitable] subscriptions… and the kind-hearted Capitalist was so affected by the sight of their misery that he gave them one of the Sovereigns he had in his pocket; but as this was no use to them, they immediately returned it to him in exchange for one of the small squares of the necessaries of life, which they divided and greedily devoured.
 
And when they had finished eating, they gathered around the philanthropist and sang, ‘For he’s a jolly good fellow’ and afterwards Harlow suggested that they should ask him if he would allow them to elect him to Parliament.” ‘The Great Money Trick’ from ‘The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’ by Robert Tressell, 1910

It is this very system that leads to those who ‘have’ living in greater and greater opulence whilst those who ‘have not’ are consigned, at best, to being wage-slaves for their entire lives.
 
A small percentage thus benefits from every possession they could possibly ever want or need whilst a rapidly increasing under-class of the permanently deprived, live in tent-villages or even in their cars and in cardboard boxes on the filthy streets of our cities.
 
In America it has recently been reported that of the one million homes currently being repossessed each year, and growing, the banks that now ‘own’ them are literally burning and demolishing tens of thousands of them each month in order to maintain the balance of supply and demand in their favour and thus artificially fix house prices at grossly-inflated levels.
 
Yet another example of how twisted and sick the system has become.

And what is the world’s greatest consumer feeding-frenzy now inflicted upon us by those who enslave us?
 
None other than Christmas, that wonderful festival of love, warmth and family bliss.
 
Christianity commandeered an originally pagan festival, ‘Yuletide’ and imposed its own version of events upon it and slowly by degrees, this supposed festival of ‘love one another’, has been manipulated into becoming an orgy of consumerism.
 
Originally, Christmas was a time for families, a time of quiet contemplation, celebration and rest and a time to think about and where possible, help those less fortunate than ourselves.
 
Now it is a living nightmare for millions.
 
Bombarded for weeks on end by ruthless and incessant advertising and coerced and harried into buying ridiculously expensive gifts and toys by the huge propaganda mill that usually starts turning around early October, many parents borrow money at extortionate interest rates simply to buy their children throw-away consumables and soon-to-be-obsolete electronic gadgets.
 
The result of this action usually results in their struggling all through most of the following year paying-off their debts to banks and corporate interests.
 
The only alternative to this for many is a feeling of extreme guilt throughout what is supposed to be the happiest time of the year, because they have been unable to buy what their children most wanted.
 
This is emotional blackmail of the highest degree and engineered solely for the purpose of making huge, obscene amounts of money for the Elite few.

“How can we, as a nation, wrestle our economy from the grip of greedy corporations when we play into their hands every year?
 
Why do we buy their lies this time of year while rejecting them the rest of the year?
 
How can we stop the cycle of debt?
 
How about this: a nationwide boycott of Christmas purchases.
 
Boy, wouldn’t that put a crimp in corporate profits.”
 
Barbara H. Peterson, farmwars.info, November 2011

Significantly, this huge spend-fest every November / December becomes more and more desperate and frenzied with each passing year as more and more corporations become utterly dependent on Christmas-time profits and as their desperation increases, the effects of this are felt by us all in the shape of their concerted assault on all five of our senses in an attempt to convince us to spend, spend, spend.

The main waste-product of all this craziness is humanity itself.
 
When people are forced to live and work in an utterly destructive, soulless system, it causes extreme distress and misery.
 
As humans our potential is limitless, bounded only by the extent of our own imaginations, but under the present regime we are little more than manufacturing and consuming machines, slaves to the system and as demonstrated in the excerpt from The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists above, a medium by which those who ‘own’ us body and soul, can perpetuate their ‘cycle of profitability’ by using we humans as the manufacturers and then in turn, the consumers of those manufactured goods.
 

This cycle has been responsible for the destruction of the human spirit and the cause of most illnesses, which are, despite all the propaganda to the contrary, mainly psychologically induced and I include in this all the so-called physical ailments, which are exacerbated by poor, destructive western diets, high in fat and sugar and low in essential vitamins and nutrients.
 
Thus, ‘the system’ in conjunction with science and religion has combined to ensure that billions are tired of living and yet terrified of dying.

Another serious by-product of extreme consumerism is the huge increase in crime.
 
We are all programmed from birth to see our success or failure as people, in terms of the abundance or lack of material possessions we have accumulated.
  
She lives in a tiny, rundown house, therefore she is a failure.
 
He has a high-powered job, holding the power of life and death over hundreds, with a huge salary and therefore he is a success.
 
Is it surprising therefore when more and more people turn to crime to further their own Elite-seeded ambitions of self-aggrandisement, by taking things that are not theirs and even worse, by actually killing people to acquire more money or possessions?

In early August 2011 England was rocked by violent rioting and looting in many of its major cities.
 
The large-scale riots fuelled by a combination of a corrupt, broken society and disaffected youth broke-out countrywide and thus threatened the well-being of us all.
 
Not through fear of being physically attacked or being actually caught-up in the mindless violence, but simply due to the fact that this is exactly what the government wants as an excuse to further curb our freedoms in the guise of ‘security’, in effect, to enslave us for our own protection. This is borne out by many independently corroborated reports of both police and fire-services actually being ordered to ‘stand-down’ and let the mayhem continue unhindered.
 
There was also talk of military intervention and curfews, but fortunately these did not come to pass, at least on this occasion but they will in future, only time will tell.
 
In any event, they have certainly now been ‘set-up’ in the public’s minds as a future possibility by the actions of the mob in conjunction with the policy of police non-intervention.
 
These are classic ‘problem–reaction–solution’ tactics as usual, of course.

The looting, thievery and lawlessness that the British PM, David Cameron condemned at the time is simply the reflection at street-level of British society of what is taking place on a much greater scale in the upper echelons of government, commerce and the economy.
 
Despite their pinstripe suits and upper-class accents, we have been subjected to decades of looting and thievery of economic and financial resources by the corporate and banking Elite, aided and abetted by a long succession of alternating, corrupt Labour and Conservative governments.
 
The taxpayer bailout of corrupt, failed banks initiated by the former Labour PM, Gordon Brown and now overseen by Cameron, paid for in large part by austerity from public spending cuts, is but the latest manifestation of the official theft from the majority, to further enhance the already outrageous wealth of the Elite.

Cameron and his gang of super-rich criminals are currently advocating £100 billion in public spending cuts to pay for the criminal enterprise known as British banking.
 
This is racketeering on a scale that looters in our inner cities could only stand in-awe of and indeed, as we see, only attempt to emulate it on a much smaller, albeit far more visible, scale.
 
Where is the mainstream media condemnation of all this upper-class, ‘white-collar’ crime?
 
They are certainly not slow in condemning the ‘mindless violence’ perpetrated by the ‘have-nots’ in our society and calling, almost in unison for totally disproportionate sentences for those found guilty and this attitude is now unsurprisingly reflected in the attitude now prevailing amongst the unthinking ‘sheeple’.

“The cause of this mayhem cannot be traced to any legitimate political grievance; it is almost entirely the product of a diseased culture, fostered by multinational corporations and the celebrity-obsessed entertainment industry that brainwashes young people to aspire to lifestyles they can never possibly attain.
 
The social decline of young people becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as a result of constant media fascination with demonising youngsters and presenting them with a putrid diet of ‘heroes’, vacuous footballers and drug-addled musicians, whose behaviour makes impressionable kids think that life revolves around being constantly trashed, engaging in amoral sexual conquests and proving their manhood by pointless displays of animal-like aggression.
 
MTV-manufactured rap icons, movies and video games have trained an entire generation of disadvantaged kids to grow up as wannabe gangsters, marauding around town with their jeans half-way down their thighs in huge mobs intimidating the public.
 
Rampant consumerism is also to blame.
 
Deprived kids on benefits cannot afford the iPods and laptops they are told they must own to be accepted by their peers, so an opportunity like this cannot be wasted.
 
Where we used to be defined by what we did, now we are defined by what we buy.”
 
Paul Joseph Watson, prisonplanet.com, 10th August 2011, commenting upon the British riots of August 2011

This prevailing system of extreme consumerism, conditions us all and especially the more impressionable among us, to believe that we need to indulge in regular, ongoing ‘spending sprees’ in order to be accepted and to ‘feel good’ about ourselves.
 
But in times of high unemployment and economic depressions, more people are denied the opportunity to ‘succeed’ through their own efforts and even to be able to feed their families adequately, let alone partake in the so-called luxuries of life.
 
Is it such a shock then that in this situation the dispossessed turn to crime to satisfy those artificially engendered wants or needs?
 
Resentment at being cast-aside by the system is rife today and this then leads to resentment of anything and anyone.
 
In this state of mind, people have murdered defenceless old ladies for the few pounds in their purse, their inherent reasoning being that the state and society has no respect for me so therefore why should I have any respect for anyone else?
 

This attitude is becoming more and more prevalent today and I refuse to believe that is because these people are inherently evil, as is strongly suggested and portrayed by the media in all its forms.
 
In my view, it is simply a natural consequence of the way society is strongly biased towards those who have more than their fair share of power, influence and money.
 
Maybe you or I would not commit murder for a few pounds, but we are all a product of a combination of our genes and upbringing and it is I believe, hypocritical to assume that had our own personal circumstances been the same as those disaffected, that we would not have followed exactly the same course, as we can never know for sure.