Indictment

by Limitless Loss

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1.
Resentment 00:49
2.
Empire 01:26
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Oh, say can't you see the subjugation of sovereign nations colonized through forced, restructured debt? And with it, penetration of the I.M.F., and austerity measures and sanctions designed to deal a swift death to their labor unions, to their institutions, and all those who oppose or defect from a system devised without humans in mind, but yields highest possible return of investment. Under empire, all human life is only worth how it weighs against the bottom line. The bourgeois have come to represent the interests of those who service their debt. As empire expands, it extracts its wealth from within its own ranks until it cannibalizes itself. "It's an empire, my friends, it's an empire. And the empire extracts the resources of the republic in order to maintain its imperialist network." - Michael Parenti
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Labor 00:13
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No dignity is spared in a world where we're only cogs of theirs, worn down, stripped bare. Where you work your fucking life away just to afford your own grave.
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Expropriated 00:34
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"The audacity is amazing: the way they not only expropriate our land, and our labor, and our money, and our wages, and our taxes, they also expropriate our words. Do you know that back in the early nineteenth century, the word 'manufacturer' meant the worker? 'Manus Factum', right? 'I make with my hands'? So, they've expropriated the word, and that word is now taken over by the owners. The owners are called the 'manufacturers'. They don't manufacture anything, they just accumulate." - Michael Parenti
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Language 00:45
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All the working class holds dear is repackaged and sold back to it. The words stolen straight from our lips, expropriated, and then weaponized against us. Their nerve as they fucking dare to deplore our "class warfare" as we struggle for our basic needs while we're strangled by a growing greed. It's a sham. Oh, the savagery of their hypocrisy, as they plunder our wages, our pensions, our salaries, and now even our own class vocabulary.
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Maintenance 02:09
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"I don't think the police are neutral. I think, 'Why, in a strike, they side with the factory owners and not the workers? Why are they there defending the property and not the right of the worker, who has an entitlement in the labor that he invests?'. They'd say, 'Oh, that's Marx. That's Marx.' Then, I realized something. That wasn't Marx. That was reality." - Michael Parenti Those sworn to protect and serve community truly protect and serve only privilege and property. As enforcement becomes militarized, the people they police are increasingly marginalized. The looming specter of brutality and imprisonment hangs over dissonant communities. It's the maintenance of silence through state sanctioned violence, an atmosphere of fear imposed to perpetuate compliance. The true ethos of that red, and blue, and white is never clearer than when shining through police lights. When expression's a freedom that earns us a cage, it's clear their purpose is persuading us to disengage. When all resistance is "resistance of arrest", social homogenization is the intention. Authorities that all but guarantee respect through the boots upon our necks.
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Resentment (Remains) 01:44
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It's a restless feeling, a malignant malaise. The doubts play out, day in, day out, until nothing but resentment remains. A life defined by deadlines; living in fear of headlines. A dread of death or, worse yet, debt. A feeling best described as: ill at ease and uneasy.
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Decline 01:13
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Maximizing profits with investment rising due to falling wages means a class declining into a life where profits seem to outweigh rising suffering due to both its wages and quality of life declining.
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Illusions 00:54
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"It's the idea that if we just dig deep enough within ourselves, if we focus on happiness, if we grasp that we are truly exceptional, if we believe that Jesus really does carry out miracles, reality is not an impediment to what we desire. And that has become fed to us across the political and cultural spectrum. Whether it's from positive psychologists, or the Christian Right, or Hollywood. And this form of 'magical thinking' allows the society to remain in a permanent state of delusion, or self-delusion. The difference between an illusion and a dream is that one strives towards a dream, one lives within an illusion." - Chris Hedges
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Culture 01:57
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TV imitates reality, the reality imitating TV. Irony dethrones sincerity; sincerity becoming obsolete. It's genocide of the mind. Everything becomes a commodity, from the Earth itself to human beings. As consumption supplants identity, complacency corrupts our humanity.
11.
Gates 00:58
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When the dollar busts, will they claw for crumbs with the rest of us? Or will they maintain their innocence or their ignorance, depending on your side of the gate? Which of us will pay for their mistakes? Or will the owning class make their escape into their penthouses and their gated estates, up until the masses penetrate all their best defenses and they're left to answer to our legitimate rage? What may read as fantasy's reflective of reality of life in a corporate welfare state.
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Resentment (Reigns) 03:16
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"What we have to do is become aware of the deliberate and intentional elements of our oppression. We are less likely to dismiss our leaders as stupid and misguided failures when we see how they serve their own interests so well. They're succeeding quite well in shaping and monopolizing the dominant ideology and the universe of discourse. We need to learn to deal not only with issues, but with ideology. We need to do more than help the poor, we need to ask why there are so many poor, and what are the social forces that create poverty. We need not only to condemn the war, we need to ask why that war is being pursued. 'Cui Bono', 'what interests benefit from it'? Then we move from a liberal complaint about how bad things are to a radical analysis of why they are the way they are, and how they can be changed. No, democracy is not about trust. Democracy is about distrust. It's about accountability. It's about exposure. It's about debate. It's about getting the thing out on the table. It's about challenging them." - Michael Parenti

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released September 15, 2017

Produced and engineered at The Engine Room in Philadelphia, PA.
Materials from authors and political analysts Chris Hedges and Michael Parenti.

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