A Day Without Commercials

Jimmy Hendrix once wrote, “When the power of love overcomes the love of power we will know peace.” I ponder on those words in days that seem rife with struggle and bloody contempt but today, on a day when I look around and see the placid looks of apparent peace on the faces of strangers, I wish for some sign of anger or unrest on those faces. I feel I’ve lost my personal power of choice, of free thought; all my rights dissolved for someone else’s idea of peace. Our society has been plunged into an era of decline due to an ever increasing control over what we see, hear, read and consume. We have freely surrendered our personal powers and responsibilities in favor of someone else doing everything and making every decision for us. We have become zombies with wallets who will buy anything we are told to without a second thought.


Our news is brought to us by corporate thugs who want to continue to pollute our planet while robbing us blind. These same thugs also own about 90% of the music and book publishing outlets. They also own drug companies, energy consortiums, food companies and about half the politicians in our own government get campaign contributions from them so that they can get laws passed that allow them to monopolize, privatize and exploit just about everything. It’s rather ingenious really, most dictatorships start with bloody coupes, all these guys had to do was buy up all the news outlets, radio stations, television channels, and willing politicians. After that all they had to do was make the public stupid enough to believe that they are still free. Sounds like the plot of some book I know, what year is this? 1984? Robert Kane Pappas agrees, he even made a film about it called “Orwell Rolls In His Grave” but of course no one has seen it unless they were looking on the internet because the same thugs own the movie studios. If you can’t find that on You Tube go rent the movie “Network” from 1976, still awesome and relevant today.

I know all that is probably distorting that placid grin on your face right now but don’t worry, we have an answer. We have a drug for when we feel blue, a drug for when we feel anxiety and for just about any other type of feeling that could be just as easily assuaged if we simply expressed them. If the drugs don’t work we can try to eat ourselves into a sugar coma or artificially torque ourselves up with caffeine, taurine and L-carnatine. All those things lead to a premature death and random shopping sprees but the recession is over now so it’s ok to shop again, never mind the foreclosure sign on your neighbor’s lawn, maybe they’re just dead beats.

Now that we know how we got here it’s time to figure out how to take our power back. It is so simple it boggles the mind. We close our wallets and stop buying what they are selling us. No more voting democrat or republican, no more campaign contributions of great size from just one person or group of people, no more conglomerates invading the air-waves, sound waves and brain waves of free people. I’m not asking for people to take to the streets, in fact just stay home, do nothing, turn off your television and radio, leave the newspaper on the lawn. If you get bored go to You-Tube and look up “Orwell Rolls In His Grave” and “Food Inc” and when you are done watching them, look up The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. You will never look at your education the same way again.