Pile of Secrets

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Thats what really steams my fucking clams about these people. We (Americans, at least) are sitting here with our collective feet lodged firmly in our collective dicks as an actual factual oligarchy cements its strangehold over our politics and our economy.

Every second we waste on the bourgeois vulgarity of intersectional identity politics is another nail in the coffin of American democracy.

Economic inequality in 2015’s America is now worse than it was during the Gilded Age of the 1920s. Let that sink in for a moment. The era in which The Great Gatsby is set in, an era in which the economic elites were so rich and so powerful and so corrupt as to be referred to as robber-barons, was more economically just than the era we find ourselves in.

Want an example? The top 25 hedge fund managers make more than every single kindergarten teacher in America combined. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/12/the-top-25-hedge-fund-managers-earn-more-than-all-kindergarten-teachers-combined/) That is obscene. Its un-fucking-acceptable. And its going to get worse because we* cannot stop jerking ourselves off about our identities and our victimhood and our feels.

Whats to be done about this? What is our path forward? To listen to these hapless idiots we ought to fracture into a thousand warring tribes, a thousand discrete groups whose interests and aspirations are fundamentally irreconcilable. Somehow, some way, reducing ourselves to the sum of our labels and declaring our everlasting hostility towards one another will make the world a more equal place.

I don’t need to tell you that the 1% can’t get enough of it. They love it. They absolutely eat this shit up. Divide and conquer. Every minute we’re at each other’s throats over petty grievance politics is a minute longer that we are not conscious to the rape of our democracy and the irrevocable destruction of our civil rights.

Instead of agitating for serious and comprehensive campaign finance reform we’re stomping our feet and throwing a pissy tantrum about the comet scientist’s shirt. Instead of demanding the dismantling of the police state and the demise of the for-profit prison system, we’re wringing our hands and gnashing our teeth over a batman villian calling catwoman a bitch. Instead of doing ANYTHING about ANYTHING we’re wasting time and energy writing a million Salon articles about Game of Thrones.

Intersectional feminism and the social justice movement is the greatest gift the 1% ever got. They are a colossal distraction, running never-ending interference for the oligarchy. Look up “useful idiot” in the dictionary and you’ll find a picture of Jonathan McIntosh.

And the irony of it all? The bitter, depressing, horrible irony of it all? The 1% will never allow true racial or gender equality. Its too profitable for the arms dealers, too profitable for the media companies, too profitable for the private prison companies. Its too useful to them, too much of a wedge, too divisive to ever give up willingly. Its far too effective a lever of control over American society.

There will be no social equality so long as there is not a basic level of economic equality in this country.Their efforts are well and truly wasted.

I might sound to you guys like some kind of rah-rah doctrinaire communist. I’m not. I’m not for forcible redistribution of wealth and I believe in free markets. But the absolute vast gulf between the hyper-wealthy and the rest of us - combined with their total domination of our political system at every level - is a clear and present danger we must face. Now.

This, to me, is what Gamergate is about. Yeah, its about videogames at its core. But its more than that. Its the front line in the war against a destructive and nihilistic ideology that is tearing us apart at the very moment in our history when it is most vital to stand united.

I’m sorry for the long rant and I’m especially sorry to be so explicitly left-wing political because I know a lot of you out there are libertarian-types and might disagree strongly with some of my assertions. I saw this post and I just had to get it off my chest.

*I’m using “we” here to refer to American society in general, not KiA.