Jul 21 2007
The Driver
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By Vi Ransel
7/21/07
Do you really believe your answers
to multiple choice questions
play any part in who you are,
that your identity,
your individuality,
comes from choosing
what’s already been chosen
for you to choose by those
chosen to get you to choose
to use what their masters produce?
Ford. Or Chevy.
Coke. Or Pepsi.
Scott. Or Charmin.
What’s the harm in your daughter
pining to be a pig like Paris,
or wearing jeans sell-out movie stars
and musicians push at us,
or your son idoling a vulgar,
greedy glutton like The Donald,
or your husband worshipping a drug-using,
woman-beating sports icon,
or your wife reading the rag mags
from cover to cover
to see which star’s just impregnated
and jilted his lover,
or your boss admiring the wisdom
of executives from Enron
for the clever theft
of their employees’ retirement funds,
or our children watching us try
to imitate celebrities
which gives our stamp of approval
to role models like these
latest idols
of American material excess
whose very lack of character
is seen as success,
whose identities we try to buy
since we see these leeches as our “betters”
and whose conduct we endorse by buying
the junk they shill in an effort
to define who we are -
very few of us could deny it -
but how unique could it be
when somebody else can buy it?
Victims of an offer
we can’t seem to refuse
buying goods planned for obsolescence
and perpetual renewal
while worshipping in front of
big-screen color TVs
eating our way to diabetes
and heart disease.
And the eating, the drinking,
the buying, the legal drugs,
the electronic diversions
allow us to accept with a shrug
the lop-sided economy,
the devastation of education,
the broken down, red-and-blue
state of our nation.
We do the frenzied, directionless,
lemming-like dance
of the meaningless minimal motion
of a mouse click
or the swipe of a credit card
and drown enthusiastically
in the plastic consumer credit ocean.
And in this act of conspiciuous consumption
we explode -
bankrupt
in spontaneous human consumer combustion.
Not to worry. There are always
plenty more where we come from
who’ve got holes in their souls
where their selves ought to be
that can never be filled by the engineered
greed, lust and gluttony
which is how we express freedom
in the Land of the Free,
choosing goods rather than the direction
of our representative Democracy.
Though we’re sold the “fact”
that the market is consumer driven
and each of us, alone, is responsible
for our purchasing decisions,
corporations spend billions each year
to manufacture our consent,
to turn citizens into consumers
instead of the drivers of government.
If it didn’t work they wouldn’t pay
to arouse shame, desire and envy.
They do it because they need
a rabid consumer feeding frenzy
and our seeing our future strictly
as the next thing that we buy.
The irresponsibility they sponsor
keeps the profit well from running dry.
They want our focus on the wealth-
creating surface of our outside,
not the road less traveled to the value
we each have on the inside.
They fear we might step off the material path
because it threatens their very survival
if we get over our lust for the vehicle
and learn to love The Driver.
Excerpt from Revelation 18: For the Merchants of the Earth were great men who Deceived All the Nations of the Earth with their sorceries…
For this Indian it is interesting to study the white folk’s world..but not all that interesting….I do know there have been lots of white folk who have opened their eyes…to their own world..and turned away from any worship of their own world…but like everyone else..including people of Native Heritage..they are slaves to the dollar…
Because of the Net I have been able to speak with some people as well as share Native Prophecies with them…
Prophecy only states these things are going to happen..doesn’t mean a person has to be a part of making them happen…
Back in 2001-2002…I read at a Conservative Christian site that they thought these wars were going to force Jesus to return….Interested me they thought they could force the Son of God to do anything…or that they own him…
Perhaps this is a part of what is spoken about regarding the False Prophet in the Book of Revelation…that it will be the False Prophets of Religion that love The Beast…and think the Beast is doing God’s work..while the Beast is doing the Devils’ work…
A friend of European Heritage in town said he couldn’t believe a Tv Preacher said over the Tv…the same things I said to him..that Tv Preachers..and Churches just use God’s name to hustle votes…& manipulate people…into what is nothing more than worldly political agenda’s of men…especially those of the Banks & Corporations…
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