If you have not read Chapter 1, scroll back to yesterday's post and read it first please
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.
