Reply #8: The voice of nihilism

[Nimrod]

Demanding won't do anything. Ever. A simple, nasty, ugly, hard-to-face truth exists. Until this truth is faced and accepted, there will be no change, and this truth will NOT be faced and accepted for a LONG time, due to the basic nature of humans in general and Americans in specific.

We do not exist.

That's it. People like you and I do not exist in the minds of the ruling class, not in human terms anyway. We are minor inconveniences at worst, sources of cash at best. We are statistics. When they think about us at all, it's how to best force us to throw more money at them. It's sort of nice if they can trick us into singing their praises as we throw money at them, but it's hardly necessary. Once they've got that cash, we pass back into nonentity state again until we've scraped together a little more money to hand over - then all of a sudden we're best buds again and they CARE SO MUCH!

So demand all you want it will do no good. Demands from nonentities mean nothing, it's just a little bit more noise that's easy to ignore. Cows make a hell of a racket when they're on the killing floor, but the butcher doesn't hear it. That cow can moo and kick and demand all it wants, it will be turned into hamburger just the same. It is not as if the cow could potentially make enough noise that the butcher will say "Okay, fine, I'll let you go!"

Until we get it through our collective thick skulls that this is EXACTLY how we are viewed by the ruling class, there will be no change. What we do if we ever DO comprehend this remains to be seen.