“No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious institutions become, the music they make will still be wonderful to ignorant ears … As such, to be truly free, it is necessary to fully forget the politicians; so-called leaders who are put in positions of influence to give us the idea we have freedom of choice — which, of course we do not have. We have no choice. We have owners. Our leaders — under the flagrantly false pretenses of serving our interests and fulfilling our desires, are actually our slave masters, and we in actuality are THEIR servants … Indeed, they own everything. They own the important land, they own and control the largest corporations that have long since bought and paid for ever single member of the senate & the congress; every single representative in every single state house, every single mayor in every single city hall. They have almost all the judges in their back pocket, and they own all the big media companies too — regulating not only which laws apply to you and which do not apply to them, but also regulating the information you get to hear and therefore the “truth” you get to believe … In essence, they have us by the balls (and/or the ovaries, as it were). They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want — and we all know exactly what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else … But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking and free thought. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of seeing injustice & cruelty and demanding remedies for the same. And they certainly don’t want a liberated citizenry who has decided to right their own culture’s wrongs instead of begging for salvation from their “leaders” … They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them at all.” ~ inspired by Vonnegut & Carlin

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