The Reset

I've been wearing out Prince's 1999 lately.  Against that backdrop is the reset we are experiencing in society.  I had to cancel today's radio show due to being a victim of the reset.  It's a trip.  And very exasperating riddled with angst and anxiety.  And they wonder why people resort to mind-altering substances? Not that I have beyond watching a good television show and listening to some Prince, but the hell are they thinking?  Maybe that's what they want you to do.  If you've read Brave New World, you know about the drug soma that induces inactivity and apathy. 

So they kick a mug out of his job and now want his crib, too?  But they want you to consume at the same rate they induced you to do.   They don't want to pay you but want you to pay yesterday's prices to keep a crib over your head?  Gas prices have crept back up along with the cost of food.  Where do they think you're getting the money?

And so they get mad when folk engage strategic default.  I read somewhere that they shouldn't be concerned about terrorists but whether people will wake up and make astute economic decisions.  Is that why the banks claimed the sky was falling?  

Like Prince said, albeit in a different context, "Something In the Water Does Not Compute."  The way this society is going might lead to some kind of revolution.  Because greedy theft and deprivation of the consumer is inconsistent.  You can keep squeezing but there comes a breaking point, a point where there's a burst.  Not advocating a riot but keep pushing those buttons and you might get one.

I mean really.  You keep taking away a person's means to survive with no relief.  You keep pushing at a person's self-respect.  Most people can suck it up.  But when they have kids, now you are fucking with people in the wrong manner.   What do you think they are going to do?  And how do you think the kids are going to feel?  We are not living on the Gaza Strip, you know.  And you see what that's gotten greed, right?

I thought we lived in a society and economy of Change.  It looks like more of the same in yellow-face.  Did we sign up for this?