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Apart, Chapter 2

Another thing about being bought- it happens damned fast and it is practically impossible to detect and correct. People become radical slaves to football teams for example. That is correct. People move from Seattle to Dallas and to Atlanta living in all three places then finally land a position in Pittsburg where they become devout Steeler fans and buy all the merchandise that corporation will sell to them that they might feel justified as created beings. So clever is the process it is never even mentioned. It appears to be taken for granted.

I watched a movie where a family of daughters is being placed with respectable bachelors in marriages they want not to be in to be wives and bear children for a lifetime of service and in the background WWII arises, flares, and extinguishes many of the men. In the film nobody winds up happy. No one sees that marriages and wars are the same. I would offer that one cannot have a war unless one first marries someone. Marriage is the name for a certain type of purchase of both parties. In fact, all of these attempts to manufacture a feeling of belonging are always going to be as a practical matter a sellout on both sides. I once heard a wise man tell it that from the point of view of a Martian, for example, watching a Marine drill instructor discipline a bunch of recruits it would be logical for the alien to think the instructor who yells and threatens at the top of his lungs is begging the others to please do what he wants of them. Everybody is bought, in other words.

People adopt careers for themselves from a prepared list handed them like assignments handed to the inmates of a work camp. Once at work, people quickly require of themselves a duty to report on a schedule not their own and to do work they do not like and to do it in ways they are told they are supposed to do it. They buy things advertised to them as appropriate at prices that keep them tied to their posts like helpless, frightened prisoners.

Musicians in a band ride on buses to gigs booked on a schedule prepared by agents who sell tickets and expect everyone to show up on time and perform on cue. These same kids never once cleaned their room at home. How quickly the change just to please others who are using them to grow rich themselves and who care not whether it kills the performers. Do you believe for a minute that was the dream of the young musicians? (These same musicians blame others for the evils of the world and sing about it on stages all around the world.)