you can't win-article 2 of 2 today

YOU CAN’T WIN
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article 2 of 2 today. My usual end of month revenue report is rather involved this time.
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A minion gave me the following quote which he had remembered reading.  “Ya can’t win; ya can’t break even; and they don’t let you out of the game”.  I thought it was rather apropos.  Well, as it turns out, this was from a song by Michael Jackson which was from the play “The Wiz”.  I wonder if this line had been going through Michaels heads when he offed himself after the authorities were getting too close to proving he had been playing Hot Dog In The Bun with small boys?  Poor guy, he had White People Problems, and he couldn’t even get White enough.

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And all those poor Negro’s.  Getting paid because their great grandfathers had been a slave.  Of course, now the joke is on us of a more pasty hue, as we are turning into the new persecuted class ( if any Blacks read this-relax, Francis.  Whites were slaves for a very long time.  Way before anyone thought of importing your ass to cut sugar cane or tobacco.  I hate to tell you, but you ain’t nothing very special ).  Considering that the play and the song were around not too long after the start of the unwinding of American Empire, it has been with us since the beginning and I think can be fairly shared with the Honkies. 

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You Can’t Win.  No crap, right?  Now, I’m not trying to take over from minorities that really did get crapped on in the past.  You guys had a rough row to hoe.  But, since White is my tribe ( until something better comes along ) if only for picking a place to survive geographically speaking, I view history through My people, and really, being honest, screw the rest of you.  I used to gripe that we were right back to the robber baron days where workers were screwed and killed and done so without compensation.  Now it seems we are back even further to the mass European immigration where the lowland English aristocrats were still screwing the mountain Celts.

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It isn’t like our lives honestly suck right now.  It is only that way in retrospect.  Compared to 1950, sure, trying to be middle class really sucks ( but compared to 200 years ago, not even close ).  There is no more true middle class.  You can’t work your way there through honest effort.  If you indenture yourself with a college degree that is the equivalent to a second or third house payment, then yes, you can assume the trappings of a middle class lifestyle.  You can use consumer debt to appear middle class.  But really, debt is just the modern version of given up seven years of your life for ship passage ( and how sweet of a deal for the sponsors was that?  Hell, the passengers were practically ballast ).

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But even if the poorest of us still live the lives of highest luxury compared to the kings of yore, that doesn’t mean we are anywhere near the middlin ground of the Oil Age like we used to be.  We can no longer win.  We can only decline.  We can fight tooth and nail to SLOW the decline, but that is all, and as time goes on we will lose that battle and decline faster.  The trick of course in all this is to give up the struggle you can’t win.  That is the whole point of the song.  Don’t throw away your life for a game you are not allowed to win.  Unless you have nothing better to do.

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You can’t break even.  Not any more.  No one is allowed to retain previous wins.  So, not only can you NOT win anymore, you can’t even keep what you won in the past.  That house equity?  Sure, it was always an illusion.  Part of the Long Con from the banks ( just like inflation is ).  You took part in the illusion because it was all they offered you.  Look, they said, you ARE getting screwed by inflation.  Your only choice is to pay less tax by getting a mortgage.  In the end, sell at a net gain and use it for retirement.  Hey, is it the Elites fault that you actually thought that bargain applied THROUGH a housing bubble?  Come on, man!  Use your friggin head.  If you lost home equity, it was because you got greedy and didn’t sell to a bigger sucker soon enough.

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Not breaking even sucks.  It is the same as one step forward and two steps back.  But you know what?  It is still YOUR fault, not the bankers.  You are still playing HIS game.  You still act like money means something, like there is still the American Dream, like any promises will be kept and like the biggest whopper of them all, your “credit score” is important ( it is jumping through hoops to get permission to be allowed to be screwed by the banker! ). 

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They don’t let you out of the game.  Now, while this is true, this is the most nuanced of the three.  You have to correctly understand the game.  Which game they are playing is important.  Playing the Money Game allows the bankers to control you, and it isn’t even the right game.  It is for them.  They think it is the only game in town.  Even as their game backfires on them ( there is only money with excess energy and they have no idea energy is running out, because it never did before ). 

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No, the real game is the same as its been for ten thousand years.  The Control Game.  The top one tenth of one percent ( today, it might be the top one hundredth, but that is only because of sheer population numbers-the exact size isn’t important ) own and control everything.  The ten percent are the straw bosses who control the 90%.  Those ten percent might think they are in control, but that is just part of the game ( more productivity is realized from those who think they are in control ).  The problem with most Americans not living in the ghetto is that they think they are in control.  Nope, sorry.  You are just a straw boss.  You are someone’s bitch.

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So, can you get out of the game?  Well, yes.  And no.  If you are living off of the land controlled by the Elite, you must play their game.  The drug dealers who are breaking the law, thinking they are outside the system?  They are still playing the game dictated to them.  The only profit they receive is because drugs are deemed illegal.  At a stroke of a pen, that could change.  The profits are allowed.  The “outlaws” only survive within the system.  Self sufficiency is the only way to game the system, even if you are still controlled by it.

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The only way to get out of the game completely is to wait for the system to crumble, then separate yourself from it and NOT replicating it.  If you set yourself up as the new agriculture boss, you are right back in the system.  Eventually, even as king, you’ll end up being a straw boss.  Granted, top straw boss, but still in the system.  Those greedy puke humps the bankers will again control you ( this is one reason Hitler is so vilified.  He went outside the banker controlled system ).  Why do you think I want to be a nomad in the wasteland? 

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There might be another way, as a dirt scratching village of farmers, if you are in an area that cannot generate enough of a surplus for soldiers and weapons makers, kings and clergy.  Living free in poverty, resorting to guerrilla warfare for defense,  is better than living on borrowed wealth in captivity.  It is the only chance you will get. 

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