“No ruling class rules nakedly
They take strenuous efforts to justify their rule...
How do we manipulate?
How do we control?
How do we contain what they have in their minds?

I’m talking in terms of power:
Where the power is?
Who’s shaping the condition of our lives?
Who determines the quality of the air we breathe?
the food we eat?
the water we drink?
the kind of jobs we can have?

The history of capitalism has been both the history
of great prosperity and great poverty.
We often say: “How unfortunate -
so much wealth is here with so much poverty here.

As if it were just an unfortunate juxtaposition
When in fact there’s a dynamic interaction between those two things:
This poverty exists because of this wealth.
This wealth exists because of this poverty.

The wealth of the few rests on the poverty of the many.
There could be no Lords and Ladies without serfs
who labor from dawn to dusk
to keep the Lords and Ladies in the style they’re accustomed to.

The richest, most powerful men…
Millions killed or maimed over the decades…
The replacement of local organic food supplies with pesticide ridden factory farms…
Several generations of lung cancer….
An avalanche of disposable products that keep creating solutions to things that aren’t problems...
A disposable environment: Turn it all to wasteland and toss it aside then move somewhere else and do the same.
Then move somewhere else and do the same

We need a war
It would stimulate the economy and get it going
There’s billions to be made there!
To be carved out and be taken
There’s been billions for 400 years!

How naively enthusiastic they are
They are just there at the edge
Knowing the world is opening up…

...
What am I smoking? "