A-Letter-IT

Conclusion:

 **bedtime story undertone**

 

Once upon an American Dream, a single-income family could be homeowners and survive with relative ease; oh wait, that was less than a hundred years ago. What happened?

 

Other developed nations have been able to provide living wages, pioneer new human rights, and check exploitative business practices; so why hasn’t America? The pandemic created 493 new billionaires; and there's over a 6:1 ratio of empty homes to homeless.Things are getting better for few but worse for many; because people, like those 493 billionaires, are incentivized and allowed to accrue wealth through predation.

 

Why doesn't the wealthiest nation in the world provide the #1 quality of life to its citizens? The answer is easy, we aren't the world's moral leader.

 

We're the World's power-tripping police officers abusing their power to capitalize off death and despair so we can gift wrap the profits with tax-loopholes as ribbons and present them to god-iglarchs.

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America’s politics and economy are structured to profit off despair and division (both foreign and domestic). This letter outlines problems and provides pathways to solutions in order to heal on a cultural level.

 

Despair and division are two components used in conditioning human behavior through Dominator principals;  these values result in bipartisan legislation that favors Wall St. over Main St, values corporate rights over human rights, and repeats cycles of oppressive behavior seen throughout history.

 

Let’s analyze the dualistic nature of culture to better understand our problem

 

There are two aspects to every culture: Dominator Culture & Partnership Culture. Similar to how day and night serve valuable functions, there needs to be a healthy ratio between the two for diverse life to thrive.

 

Generally speaking, the earliest forms of society practiced Partnership Culture, and Dominator Culture developed out from it; think Cain and Able; think takers and leavers.

 

Dominator Culture:   Works against nature through force of will (coercion)

 

Partnership Culture: Works with nature through understanding (empathy)

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By and large, modern cultures predominantly practice Dominator values with aspects of Partnership intertwined; grossly oversimplified: a carrot and stick approach to developing cultural prosperity. The two are far from being equally valued and practiced in America; and it translates to our leaders valuing IQ considerably more than EQ.

 

America's Obsession with IQ

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Beleive it or not, the birthplace of eugenics was America—not Germany. The theory developed in response to the IQ test's popularity. IQ is a recognizable term, but EQ (it’s opposite yet equivalent) is lesser known. The two are interconnected, yet one side is neglected. They're opposite sides of the same coin, like yinyang one defines the other.

 

EQ is an integral force that’s grossly undervalued in modern society; the relationship between EQ & IQ tracks with modern societal values concerning Partnership & Dominator cultural principals; it tracks with Emotion and Logic and explains why modern man can justify dehumanizing practices as ‘greater good’ moral acts; how they can use love to justify hate... can choose profit over people--without hesitating.

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Modern Domination

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Behavior associated with Dominator Culture has driven innovation and lead to growth; but the methodology’s resulted in escalating levels of dehumanization, disenfranchisement, and disparity through slowly siphoning  human rights. Human rights gifted to corporations as tributes to the gods of capitalism. It’s perpetuated predatory mentalities; such as a societal tendency to escalate sociopaths into influential positions like CEO. In a sense, we’ve incentivized people to value sociopathic behavior because of the success it brings you within our economic system.

 

Corporate gods are advertised to be what makes America… America. Nothing could be further from the truth. America became America because it resisted the corruption of Colonial corporatism (both DNC & GOP need a refresher course on the topic). Regulations America’s Founding Fathers established to check corporate power were undone/ deregulated; and America’s political leaders became nothing more than corporate followers—corporate lapdogs stamping legislation worded by lobbyists. A hundred years is all it took for American politics to begin transitioning to an iteration of what our forefathers rebelled against. It’s a testament to the effectiveness of: Elitist hubris, mental/ moral gymnastics, groupthink blinded by greed, enabled by effective propaganda, and fueled by corporate logic & money.

 

Transitive Properties

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Before analyzing Dominator & Partnership principals in early humans’ efforts domesticating dogs, lets understand the Dominator approach used to train elephants today; then, apply both approaches to domesticating Man’s Best Friend.

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Bull hooks are weapons used to train elephants using extreme levels of negative reinforcement. When trainers drop these weapons, it occasionally provokes an attack.

 

Lesson:

An overutilization of fear and other Dominator Principals conditions unbalanced and, often times, aggressive psychological behavior (directed at authoritarian figures).

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*Learn about positive reinforcment on your own. Consider that a lesson on how to fish*

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Working class Americans might not feel a physical bull hook, like elephants; but we’ve been at the business end of an economic one for a long time. World-famous memories now overwhelmed or over-stimulated by 24-hour news cycles; most adults forget more than they retain; and large groups of people are primed to view the world through a corporate lens designed to Manufacture Consent through coercive opinions that profit off division.

 

Every modern war was justified through media support—in rare bipartisan fashion; why, because war yields profits for few at the cost of the many. War, translate to: privatized gains, justified fear mongering and legislative ease increasing ‘defense’ spending—every year; and nobody’s asking, ‘how are we going to pay for that?!’ when it pays for itself in human life and socioeconomic strife.

 

The bull hooks used on us can be fiscal, psychological, and at times physical; and they were developed by Elitist think tanks and other institutionalized minds influencing politics, legislation, and media… because they legally bribe politicians, write legislation, and own 90% of media.

 

Generations of American politicians slowly, and maybe inadvertently, legalized corruption; and it’s normalized, defended, and exploited in bipartisan fashion today. Addressing this corruption doesn’t happen, because it’s mutually assured destruction for establishment politicians belonging to both Republican and Democrat parties.

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Domesticating Man’s Best Friend:

 

Partnership Approach: early hunter-gatherers recognized they had enough meat to share (not having a method to preserve it yet). Wolves, once enemies, attracted to the smell of meat were gifted leftovers; over time, a bond and trust were formed along with a time-honored tradition, table scraps. Since both humans and canines tracked similar game season to season, it correlates.

 

Dominator Approach: a hunter-gatherer group feast on their kill. Attracted to the smell, a pack of wolves threaten them. Humans defend their dinner and enlist the lone survivor (a cub) into their pack. Following dominator principals: that dog is trained through negative reinforcement (division & fear). Conditioning fear into any animal from an early age will result in socialization problems. As an adult, we have one mean wolf. Knowing how to hunt for itself, it no longer needs its masters and turns on them while they’re unguarded or simply escapes… origin story for the lone wolf?

 

In reality, domestication likely involved love paired with tough love. Anything less than a 3:1 ratio (love: tough love) wouldn’t have resulted in dogs being our best friends. A Partnership approach (non-possessive of meat) gained early humans an ally in their hostile world. One thing’s for certain (about their domestication), our relationship with canines helped develop the hearts and minds of our ancestors; but history would prove that the human intellect, in all its trickery, would devalue our heart on behalf of cold hard machine-like logic; logic that stimulates profits by creating disparity and stoking division.

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There should be no incentive to completely dominate another creature when the relationship is intended to be a win: win; like humans and canines. But humans have proven to be masters at twisting logic and justifying contrarian behavior for personal profit. Today, the human intellect’s weaponized and war is the solution to everything, even economic problems; the current system is marketed as a win: win; when in reality, it functions as a win: lose—for the majority; little love is factored into bipartisan legislation... when legislation is worded by lobbyists for the benefit of Elites, it effectively puts sociopaths (CEOs) at the helm of America’s economy and politics.

 

America's Economic Structure Post American Revolution

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Our Founding Fathers knew the dangers of corporate influence in politics after seeing it applied during Colonial rule. So they put strict regulations in place preventing corporate corruption from affecting legislation; but those regulations didn’t last… American politics fell victim to the same sin (greed) English society did; the same influential factor(s) that sparked America’s Revolutionary War became appropriated American Capitalist values and over time (slowly yet surely, history repeats). And now, Dominator/ corporate values are thoroughly normalized in America’s economy; they’ve compromised our democracy past the point of recognition; because establishment politicians tacitly endorse legalized bribery and other corrupting influences within our system for the sake of what they perceive to be bipartisan.

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For around 100 years after the American Revolution, corporations were strictly regulated, and their charters (their existence) had an expiration date. That’s right, corporations would dissolve and their assets divided amongst shareholders when charters weren’t renewed. Corporations were designed to build American infrastructure; and when they accomplished their goals, they disappeared from existence. Corporation's no longer have an expiration date, yet our infrastructure is worse than ever, so what does that say?

 

Believe it or not, the public held a lot of control in regulating corporate behavior. Citizens voted on whether charters continued, regulations needed applying, and generally speaking—when power needed checking; after all, the way corporations operate affects the wellbeing of the local community and economy. It was the first version of civilian oversight, and corporate business dealings were utterly transparent. This was thanks to a functional system of checks and corporate accountability to consumers, local voters, and shareholders. Today, accountability is a joke across the spectrum of Elites; Sadly, Flint MI continues to be an ignored canary in our economic coal mine; and the Elites, institutions and politicians who should be accountable... often get slapped on the wrist; and it doesn't discourage them from cutting similar corners in the future.

 

“Citizen authority clauses limited capitalization, debts, land holdings, and sometimes, even profits. They required a company’s accounting books to be turned over to a legislature upon request. The power of large shareholders was limited by scaled voting, so that large and small investors had equal voting rights.”

reclaimdemocracy.org

 

After fledgling American profiteers experienced immense financial gains from the Civil War, the modern dragon was birthed; generations of families began hoarding wealth, influencing law, and exploiting loopholes. Through legal manipulation (using the 14th amendment), corporations argued personhood and won… and it started another American trend that persists today—exploiting and/or creating legal grey areas that enable privatized gains (for those in the know).

 

Eager to exercise newly found rights and influence in the political sphere, dehumanizing corporate values became institutionalized capitalist values. A minimum wage wasn’t necessary until employees lost their leverage—lost the impact their collective voice once possessed; and the relationship gradually became a win: lose between corporations and civilians. Since then, human rights have been systematically siphoned away and offered to corporate gods (metaphorically speaking).

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Corrupting corporatist values are normalized in our culture; and they’ve compromised our democratic system past the point of recognition. When 95% of elected officials spent more money campaigning than their opponents, donor wants are prioritized over constituent needs, and America functions as an oligarchy; it spreads systematic disparity; it reveals an economic structure that works for few at the cost of many; and it exposes Elites as viewing employees as ‘human capital stock’ instead of livining, breathing, and pooping organisms capable of experiencing emotion (unlike many CEOs); so they’ll sell and price gouge us on legal drugs to cope with symptoms of humanity while they continue to amass wealth at the top; because their machine is built to do so.

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'Why did God create Economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves"

~ David Rosenberg (former Chief Economist at Merrill Lynch)

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American politicians have forgotten what it means to lead and too often act on advice from people who have worse track records than meteorologists; they face zero accountability for faults and are allowed to socialize losses created by their mistakes. Somehow, they're able to spin those socialized losses into privatized gains as if Rumpelstiltskin (like the housing crisis and other aftermath of 2008). Preferring safe partisan political plays to bold systemic change, politicians have the propensity to outsource morality to: antiquated political playbooks, aides, consultants and other groups with financial interest. A generational neglect or avoidance of moral objectivity fed disparity within America; strife, being predictably profitable, was structured into business models, values and gives way to more legislation allowing profiteers to capitalize off the cycle all over again.

 

Trend Setter? More like One Hit Wonder...

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Even Henry Ford came to the conclusion that: moving from a six-day workweek to a fix-day workweek without cutting wages allowed his employees both leisure time and fiscal means to afford and enjoy his automobiles. The thought of someone like Henry Ford pioneering the reduction of workdays, is unthought-of today; not to say it was expected then! After this event, it was predicted that: a leap forward in tech (like the assembly line) would provide employees more time-off from work and more disposible income. The opposite occurred… in America. Let’s oversimplify the why and how. The why: privatized profit, the how: legalized corruption, end result: exponential growth of income inequality.

 

America’s wavering moralities lead to the fiscal domination of our working class and legislation legalizing the practice. Only, no American consented to being fiscally dominated by an authoritarian class operating within a pseudo-democracy; yet, here we are—domesticated/ dominated animals with few options of recourse in a system where accountability is scarce, electoral politics is a money game, and claiming America is a meritocracy… is deceptive political rhetoric. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know in America. Everyone knows that… kiss up, kick down, and your slowly deteriorating morals will earn you a seat(s) at influential tables.

 

Rebels founded America. They knew, if our government had any chance at long term success, it needed to provide effective methods for citizens to check power and provide a viable pathway to voice change… a way to avoid mass death, avoid another bloody revolution. It wasn’t the intension for America to become a nation run by war profiteers but it has. When a (simple) populist thing like decriminalizing cannabis can only be done state to state through ballot measures, it exemplifies how dysfunctional American politics has become. Why the few populist positions politicians campaign on never come to fruition; why modern wars drag on forever; its almost like… power is a corrupting and profitable influence.

 

By and large, establishment politicians have forgotten whom their fiduciary duty is to; valuing corporate rights over human rights creates a dysfunctional government and economic disparity… the kind that fuels revolutions.

                                                                                                                              

If political leaders have any interest in reestablishing trust with the populous, it’s necessary for them to remember whom their fiduciary duty is to. Ideals both parties possess result in bipartisan corporate welfare; and the Princeton Oligarchy Study illustrates this. Corporations have more human rights than actual humans; they’re too big to fail: and working-class people are worth more dead than alive to the corporate machine when things like dead peasant insurance policies exist.

 

Bipartisan establishment politicians stymie the few legislators fighting against wealth and income inequality. It happens for the same reason institutions designed to police the powerful are handicapped through systematic defunding (OSHA, IRS, CFPB). This doesn’t happen by mistake. Power and influence make you, practically, untouchable in America.

 

Consider this: most outsider politicians have more name recognition in the Republican Party than the Democratic Party; mostly because Republicans attack anything blue that moves; but outsider perspectives are attacked non-stop (in general) without cable news or political leadership defending or accurately depicting their positions.

 

If establishment Democrats and Republicans defended democratic values and didn’t dismiss populism, it would upset bipartisan corporate donors. They prefer deregulation, which is why opposition to populist positions like commonsense gun reform or removing political conflicts of interest see bipartisan resistence.

 

Strong divisive rhetoric divides Americans and our two-party system forces many to vote against their interests; like many relics of time, our system’s become antiquated. The integrity of American democracy hasn’t been protected; and politics has been weaponized (purposefully or not) as a tool to dominate the powerless through the extended will of the powerful.

 

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Dominator Principals (tools used to distract and divide):

 

Presidential Elections = legislative teeter-todder effect benefitting corporations in the long-term

 

Republican Reps:     

 

Own the left; accomplish this by equating their behavior with that of America’s enemies; perception(s) of Democrats stripping away freedom (enables GOP to do it in plain sight); deregulate corporations and give Elites tax breaks; tax breaks will trickle down—they promise, despite a lack of evidence; pretend that, socialism doesn’t currently pay the salaries of police officers, that it doesn’t pay salaries of firefighters; pretend it doesn't already exist in America’s mixed economy; pretend that socialist institutions aren’t selectively funded & defunded at the behest of bipartisan corporate donors; pretend that defundeding select institutions isn't a strategy to privatize them (ex. education) or handicap them policing Elites (ex. IRS); few socialist institutions, like law enforcement, see inflated budgets each year; institutions with inflated budgets either buy, research or develop weapons or pharmaceuticals, to which the profits of are privatized, loopholes provided, negetive press deflected and/or denied; our monumental defense budget is distributed to both socialist and private institutions (guess where it skews towards)

 

Democrat Reps:

 

Make permanent and/ or don’t repeal corporate, donor-class, tax breaks Republicans enact (teeter todder effect: reveals implicit bipartisan corporate values); address few deregulations enacted by previous admin (compromising employee/ voter/ consumer rights); don’t rock the boat, do change around the edges (Obamacare, template dev. by Heritage Foundation for RomneyCare in Massachusetts); Democrat compromise equates to right-wing legislation slandered by the right because it’s enacted by the left; don’t give Republicans more ammunition to misinterpret as ‘communist’; more reasons to scare bipartisan donors away; downplay progressive voices advocating for New Deal inspired legislation; compromise instead of representing the party’s base values; American democracy’s the best in the world (perpetuate the façade)!

 

Democrat SJW:          Own the right

 

Republican SJW:        Own the left

 

Actuated Reality:       Bipartisan (long lasting) policies = corporate welfare & cascading deregulation at the collective cost of human rights; overton window shifts toward corporate capitalism

 

While separated and distracted inside partisan American media bubbles, every other developed nation pioneered new human rights, yet we still consider ourselves their moral leader.

 

A form of Medicare For All and paid family leave developed as normalized business practices or cultural values in every other developed nation. Even McDonald’s in Denmark respects employee human rights and wages more than the nation that created McDonalds; Denmark doesn’t need a minimum wage enforcing this human right (moral in practice); and guess what, their Big Mac’s are still insanely cheap as employees make $20/hr! Telling us that the price of Big Mac's will go through the roof if wages increase is propaganda. They prefer to skimp on wages to pay CEO's insane salaries for having loose morals.

 

In America, freedom is a concept defined by lobbyists and passed to politicians for validation. How did this happen? Well… a nation quick to forget history, rebrands British Colonial oppression tactics as righteous values associated with capitalism.

 

Wars Work... In the Short-Term, Not So Much Long-Term

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The Civil War might have put an end to slavery, but culture and ideologies associated with the Confederacy persisted in different ways; it was rebranded; and today aspects of Confederate cultural values are thoroughly integrated/ defended in bipartisan fashion. It’s unclear if legislators or voters will ever collectively acknowledge they exist. It’s a testament to the effectiveness of America’s propaganda machine. Looking back to better understand the ‘why’ and ‘how’ behind systemic exploitation threatens to expose the status quo and how our power structure evolved or devolved (depending how you view it).

 

Due to inadequate reconstruction efforts, embers of confederate philosophy and Colonial corporatism spread across the country and into the mindset of legislators, voters, and Titians and industry alike. The causal effects of war and revolution happen in response to heavy handed Dominator Culture practices; practices that exist today as they did in every generation, but the fiscal, psychological and physical duress are exponentially worse now, why; because, duress and response to it is converted into capital gains.

 

War is a short-term remedy proven ineffective in addressing larger systemic flaws in human nature; basic human responses to things like fear are weaponized in marketing; and profiteers are incentivized to exploit this predictable response (disaster capitalism on a sliding scale).

 

Corporations Are Modern Plantations w/ Better PR and Lawyers

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Like a cancer, Dominator values were fostered as corporations gained rights and worked toward legalizing new methods to build modern day plantations. This time they wouldn’t, explicitly, discriminate based on race; just like career criminals exiting our prison system, they picked up a few new tricks. Corporations are ‘people’ now… in the eyes of the law; and they’re ironically protected under the 14th amendment, yet they can't go to prison. #AmericanContrarianism at its finest. Political leaders are more accurately described as followers of a corporate religion; and like other religious values, the line between church and state means nothing.

 

Behavior we see today: if corporations aren’t able to secure tax breaks from states, production gets outsourced overseas or moves to a state willing to provide them benefits… willing to be businees with bennies; corporations have all the haggling power; where once upon an American Dream, employees did. Benefits/ human rights are withheld from average workers to maximize corporate profits; and this was/is enabled by the systematic siphoning of human rights through bipartisan corporate-influenced legislation. In short: the deterioration of human rights (living wage, affordable housing, avg. quality of life/ life expentancy) and the rise of corporate communism occured because our 'civil servants' found new patrons.

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Sure, plenty has changed since Slavery and the Civil War, but accommodate for time and you see correlations associated with dominator principals that trace back to the plantation class dehumanizing workers today. On the topic of bathrooms alone: Amazon and Tyson chicken processing plants exemplify how profits are put over basic bathroom rights.

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If these corporations can’t exist while providing workers a living wage, respect, and pioneering new human rights… why should they exist at all? Other countries provide living wages and embrace new human rights—so why can’t… why won’t… the wealthiest nation in the world?

 

Similar to confederate embers, Dixiecrats (pro segregation politicians) went underground too; and they rebranded themselves into the establishment figureheads of modern times. #Resist_NeoDix is a movement to call out the Dominator values associated with division/ segregation, plantation style capitalism, and the correlations between why the Civil War was fought and why people are protesting for #HumanRights today.

 

Dominator principals permeate American culture; largely due to one piece of flawed conventional wisdom, that corporationtions maximizing profits benefits everyone. It's eerily reminiscent to factors that sparked the Revolutionary War—especially since they’ve resulted in similar financial disparities. A generational neglect of political fiduciary duty (to the populous) has resulted in there being no legitimate Party of the People; and America’s Elites would rather pay lip service to ethics than pay employees living wages (the best way for employers to express respect/ gratitude). America can’t consider itself a moral leader of the world in our current state. With the divisive corporate politics practiced today, calling ourselves the ‘United’ States is deceptive marketing; but that fits the pattern of American Contrarianism.

 

Critically questioning Dominator values, with the same repitition used to push corporate talking points, will get you blacklisted by most all cable news programs among other forms of backlash. Feeling like oppressed pets yelling into a black hole, populist protests exemplify the equal and opposite reaction to a predatory system; one structured to promote sociopaths to positions like CEO. The modern corporate mentality has devolved to view humans as cogs; and this dehumanization is conditioned into generations of Elites who rationalize or ignore history repeating itself for personal gains.

 

Dominator stylized duress is structured into our system. It promotes, capitalizes, criminalizes and/ or profits off: addictive or predictable human behavior created by socioeconomic conditions influenced by corporatized legislation. Aside from the obvious example, the drug war & accessibility of legal drugs, let's dive into another large market, Food & Agriculture.

           

Micro-->Macro Ex. Standard American Diet (SAD) Ripple Affect

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• Most manufactured food in America is designed to be addictive (through added sugar) and it has a cascading effect on our health and wellbeing

  • High sugar and fructose consumption are the biggest factors in developing Type II diabetes

• 1 in 2 Americans show starting signs of developing insulin resistance

  • Precursor to type II diabetes

    • Type II diabetes aka severe insulin resistance

• 90% of serotonin is produced in our gut

  • An unbalanced diet means reduced serotonin levels and brings new meaning to the term ‘hangry’

    • Unbalanced gut microbes can block hormonal signals and spam other ones causing food cravings

• America has a health epidemic creating comorbidities

  • Stifling America’s average life expectancy along with deaths of despair

  • Agriculture, food manufacturing and health system(s) structured off flawed nutritional theory created in the 50’s after Eisenhower’s heart attack

    • Restructuring dietary guidelines and values impacts profit margins of all these industries

  • Inability or unwillingness to question conventional wisdom/ antiquated systems & undemocratic tradition(s)

    • To question or undo harmful legacies of political predecessors

    • Elitist ego problem

      • “If we undo their legacy, mine could be next” mentality

    • Inability/ unwillingness to negetivly impact donor-class profit margins

• Around 80% of products in grocery stores have added sugar

  • Sugar is addictive; it’s a legal drug; it stimulates hunger when consumed; largest factor in developing type II diabetes

    • These qualities are exploited by predatory/ dominator business values

      • Incentivized by profits to:

        • Muddy informational waters

          • About health in general

          • Especially surrounding sugar

          • Contributes to the ‘art’ of junk science and misinformation

        • Capitalize off acceptable/ unregulated propaganda in America

      • Creates repeat customers for suppliment market, doctors, dentists, and medical industries

  • Sugar/carbs-->glucose: common ingredient in comfort food that many people use to cope with the mounting anxieties created by modern society

    • Sugar is added to more products in America than other countries

      • Profit motive in creating addicts

    • Fuels/ creates the snack food industry

      • Insulin resistance is responsible for people getting hungry shortly after eating

      • Continuous snacking through the day triggers consistent insulin production

        and this type of exposure develops cellular resistance

        • Just like with any drug, our body builds up a tolerance from excessive consumption

        • Carbs/glucose require insulin to be used as fuel by cells

        • Snack foods are designed to be heavy on carbs-->more carbs, more insulin production, mounting insulin resistance

        • Unable to utilize glucose or insulin in the bloodstream, that excess of insulin signals the body to create new fat cells so it can store this unused energy (de novo lipogenesis)

      • Legitimize consistent snacking as a ‘healthy’ habit with junk science studies

        • When fasting between meals/ fasting in general is scientifically healthier

• Price gouging

  • Insulin is one of many Big Pharma markets subject to price gouging

    • Despite Frederick Banting, who discovered how to synthesize insulin, opting not to profit off it

      • His altruism was undone by America's endorsment of predatory capitalism

  • Added healthcare expenses from continuous doctor visits (little preventative healthcare in America)

  • Business mentality: reactive healthcare yields more profits than proactive healthcare

    • Medical metrics incentivize: doctors to prescribe medication that targets symptoms of systemic health problems ('medical whack-a-mole' ~Mark Hyman MD, Doctors Farmacy podcast)

      • Creates dependent customers

      • Advocating for dietary changes isn’t profitable and isn’t taught in medical school

• Food is a profitable industry: changing dietary guidelines will affect market volatility and shine light on other societal and governmental flaws

  • Food deserts

  • Poverty

  • Affordablility of whole foods

    • When super processed foods are currently less expensive (due to subsidies and tax breaks) and more popular (containing sugar/ designed to be addictive)

• Bliss Point: terminology used by food manufacturers to describe how much sugar can be added to a product before it negatively impacts taste

  • Consuming sugar makes us hungrier/ stimulates sales

    • At the collective cost of Americans’ long-term health

    • Contributing to diabetes and other comorbidity epidemic(s)-->high Covid mortality rate

• Sugar is the deadliest drug on the planet, but it’s symptoms play out long-term and are easily monetized by a predatory system that endorses legalized bribery and propagating misinformation for privatized gains

  • Big Pharma floods money into politics (bipartisanly) more than any other industry

    • That's why healthcare reform seems impossible in the US (Dominator Culture)

    • Big Pharma also funds propaganda to smear socialized healthcare and maintain gross profits

    • 67% of banruptcies in America are tied to medical issues

      • Provides oppertunities for other predators to capitalize (increase the wealth gap)

  • 95% of elected officials outspent their political opponents while campaigning

    • Food lobbyists are just one of many groups of political donors and bundlers

      • Raising money to influence legislation on behalf of corporations

    • Corruption is normalized and/ or largely ignored

  • Obesity and health: viewed as a personable responsibility

    • When it’s fueled by government’s inaction to check:

      • Misinformation, fad diets and scams; it’ created a wild west supplement market and utilizes deceptive marketing and business strategies

        • Like so many other industries

    • Perpetuated by

      • FDA hubris/ normalized corruption/ privatized profits

• Updating FDA health & lifestyle guidelines, enacting Medicare for All (human right in every other developed nation), and ending private interest ownership/ influence over American’s health… could be the first dominos in addressing normalized corruption (since its a difficult issue to polarize with politics)

  • Would cost jobs in various sectors designed to capitalize off vulnerable people optimistic but naïve enough to believe a magic pill can correct any and all health problems

  • It would restructure Americas food & agricultural priorities (what crops & industries are subsidized)

    • Call into question why food desserts came into existence

    • How farmers are treated by corporations

    • Devalue seeds that companies, like Monsanto, spent time and resources developing (seeds of subsidized crops)

      • The transition to valuing new crops (for health reasons) would provide opportunities for farmers to get out from under corporate thumbs/ influence

      • Calls into question: reform that makes it easier for farmers to reestablish independence

  • Actions that seem impossible to most legislators

    • Ego (our point of contact with the world) issues

    • Trading short-term corporate profits for long-term societal health and prosperity

      • Effecting CEO careers/ numbers/ legacies/ reputations

      • Corporate class bonuses for meeting growth metrics

  • Would take away subsidies, tax breaks and other benefits corporations see from the privatized backscratching, FDA health guidelines, status quo etc.

    • Largest factor preventing systemic change = donor class

      • The donor class holds economic levers, power and influence over politicians

        • Because they’ve been allowed to influence/ structure America’s economic system since the Civil War

• Dominator approach: to living with type II diabetes (insulin resistance)

  • Prescribe the patient insulin (the very hormone their body resists)

    • An excess of insulin in the blood tells the body to store unused carbs/ glucose as new fatty tissue

      • This is why most people with type II diabetes gain weight

    • Grossly monetize their need of insulin to survive

  • Long-term solution

    • Keep using insulin… possibly lose a foot when you’re old and grey

• Partnership approach: reversing type II diabetes

  • Change diet to:

    • Reverse insulin resistance

      • Restores other hormonal sensitivities

    • Align our diet to one resembling what our ancestors evolved to digest

      • Isn’t monetized by Big Pharma

    • Not easily exploitable/ profitable/ accessible in our capitalist system

• We know what’s causing type II diabetes, obesity, and other health epidemic(s); but the commonsense solution to fixing them threatens profits and the status quo's economic predation

  • Threatens to undermine or eliminate current models designed to:

    • Maximize then privatize profits while socializing losses

      • Through legalized exploitation enabled by:

        • Systematic deregulation

        • Slow syphoning of human rights

        • Misinformation through normalized propaganda

• Economic symptoms: of a predatory virus-like neurodegenerative mentality affecting America’s legislative psyche contributing to similar disparities that lead to every major war

  • Or just, flat out, ol’ greedy boomers refusing to accept change that threatens to expose the establishment's veil of civility for what it is… a rebranded grift

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Our politicians need to stop normalizing modern interpretations of plantation-class corporatist values; stop exemplifying what Neo-Dixiecrats would act like. That war was fought and won, but wars are ineffective in ending their systemic drivers; war is only effective in halting ideological movements in the short-term. Intrinsic values associated with wartime antagonists persevere in different ways, shapes and forms. Sometimes they’re welcomed for capital gains—like Operation Paperclip after WWII. Supposedly defeated ideologies get rebranded, ignored and/ or propagated; negligence, blind-faith in corporate gods, hubris, and systemic corruption foster them.

 

Will legislators continue to endorse predatory remedies generating privatized profits, or will they work towards partnership-centric cures—towards valuing and propagating understanding—towards ending America’s dehumanization problem? Will they give the country back to the people by fighting for democratic values and ending undemocratic traditions? Don’t be a Neo-Dixiecrat. #Resist _NeoDix

 

#Resist_NeoDix (A Social Movement)

 

• Expressing support for the movement

  • To start (once or twice a week): post minimally on social media and use precise words

    • Goal: prompt a response from politicians

      • Prompt response from thought leaders

      • Prompt response from organizations

    • Use the phrase #Advoc84IT

      • Ex. Ending legalized corruption. ‘I'm an #Advoc84IT’ @_____, #WillYouPleadALetterIT? (enter link, txt, other reference)

• What is IT?

  • Valuing, practicing, legislating partnership values; propagating understanding, less judgment, and less undue duress applied to others through force of will; respect fellow humans for being human (in all our fallibility); yet hold humans acting infallible proportionately accountable for their hubris trickling down in place of disposable income

• In response to politicians, celebs, and orgs who don’t support IT

  • Speak the only language they know

    • We put our money were our mouth is

      • As conscious consumers

    • Target political donors, corporations and advertisers

    • Conscious consumerism

      • Cancel culture?

        • Or public pressure/ incentive for people or organizations to be better—to grow

        • One of the few effective methods citizens have left to express the value of their opinion(s)

      • With the diversified investments of giant conglomerates, a large-enough display of conscious consumerism could go a long way

        • But how much and for how long are we willing to change our consumerist patterns for?

          • Materialist war of attrition

• This movement is about taking back our collective voice/ protesting for human rights/ and speaking the only language Elites understand, profit

  • Ex. I love a lot of Disney movies and film; but I dislike how they treat their employees. How long would I be willing to drop Disney+ to ally with Disney workers, to fight for their right to a living wage... so employees don’t die while sleeping in their cars between shifts. If we time our protests just right with enough people, we could excercise a new method to check predatory norms within our system.