Communism and/or Consumerism

Sheep are consumers. Their heads are constantly in the herb. Horses, pigs and cattle are consumers. They graze constantly from the earth. I am a human being who stands on two feet looking up to heaven from whence I came thinking of what it is I have to give rather than what I have to get. Being aware of my life spirit and the intellect that causes me to reason I find it hard to continue in a term which most consistently applies to animals. This label "consumer" –where did it come from?

The communists believe that they are comrades and share all things in common in a state of conscious social levelling which makes them feel free. True their system has suffered financial collapse, as ours is, but they feel quite secure in what they consider a superior system having paid such a high price for their independence, revolution and new constitution. The last thing they want to be called is "consumers", just as the last thing we Americans wish to be called is "communists". They look at us an feel sorry for us and laugh thinking us duped and unable, on account of our ideology, to see how ridiculous we appear as we have donned the term "consumer" and even boast of it. They see how our consumerism has consumed our very souls, families, lives and happiness. They recognize the signs of a far greater bondage than they believe afflicts them. They see a confused hybrid of socialism, statism, classism, conservatism, liberalism, and even spiritualism all lumped together in one pasture tolerating a multiplicity of beasts we gladly refer to as "consumers".

As we are bred to consume, the rich are bred to get richer as the poor get poorer fleeced of their money, labors and freedoms. As proud consumers the roots of lust and covetousness insidiously grow deeper and deeper. Inculcated under the wire, as it were, down deep in our subconscious minds and hearts expensive thought reform projects have been tested repeatedly for decades to perfect winning strategies in the battle for our minds. Because of this ideology the impulse to lust is deeply ingrained in us as grazing is in dumb animals. Men, women and children are given to satisfying every whim without discretion through herding instincts. Restraint and the full use of our intellect mitigated by media cause us to create needs which are unnatural, and therefore we find unnatural means of satisfying and justifying them. We do this to avoid shame, guilt and feelings of rejection. It is our consumer rights to think of our freedom in terms of worthless material possessions rather than land and real property; in tenancy rather than ownership; in transitional careers and employment rather than mastery and permanence. A brief study of Aristotle's "Politics", chapter one, should clarify that we consumers have entered an unnatural realm where unnatural currency which is secondary rules our lives instead of nature which is primary, and that masters and slaves are themselves natural distinctions. Those framers of the Enlightenment had no problem drawing this conclusion. Thus, where the gentle animals find fulfillment in naturally in their consuming, we cruel animals have become as unnatural beasts consuming and yet never being satisfied. Our cravings ever increase. Our hearts and souls thus penned in and fattened by our own lusts, are we now awaiting the slaughter?

Just as a final note: I failed as a father because I was unable to provide enough capabilities for consuming to my former family. They said I did not love them. Ahhhh –indeed I did. Their parent, The Media, never loved them as I did; simply harnessed them. But what I wished to give them as a father could never be measured in material goods, neither can it be, but in one's ability willingness to stand up and raise one's hands to heaven and say with all sincerity and gladness, "Thank you for making me a free human being".