WAR IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS

Every day since at least 1900, if not much further back, there has been - somewhere on this supposedly civilised planet - a war.

War shouldn�t be a matter of whose side you are on. Which arms race you support. There is only one race, the human race, and you�d be a fucking fool and an idiot to dispute that. It doesn�t matter what colour you are. It doesn�t matter the name of your God, or even if you�ve got one.

The only enemy is war itself. The only enemy are those who perpetuate wars. Those who abuse and assault others, using whatever flimsy lie of a pretext they can find. So several hundred years ago the people that you fight, the people that you shoot, the people you carbomb and murder, allegedly believed in something very very different to you. maybe their great-great-great-to-the-power-of-10-Grandfathers said something offensive, or killed someone.


BLOOD WILL FEED ON BLOOD

But in the grand scheme of things, so fucking what? For everyone you kill you create a martyr. For every friend you murder, you create 10 followers. For every murder, an army. The kneejerk reaction, the human desire for revenge, will do no more than create chaos. Blood will feed on blood.

These people you kill are still human. They still have feelings. Hopes. Live. Loves. dreams. They too hope to grow old and see their great-grandchildren play at their feet on their birthday.

But all these things are irrelevant. The human race will destroy itself through dogma and stupidity. Through it�s own shortsighted, vain pride and arrogance. Through the need to avenge wrongs that never were, through the need to kill in order to gain power. And if only we can see beyond that we, as a collective consciousness can evolve. We have the power.

But it�s always been easier to destroy than to create. And despite what evolution has shown us, mankind - these days at least - is inherently lazy.


WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A DAMN GOOD WAR.

Business is a machine. It produces money and needs people to do it.

War is a machine. It produces corpses and despair. It need people to do it.

It needs people to feed on the fuel of hate, on the gruel of ignorance, and on the rancid semen of fear. We buy what we�re told. We believe the lies. Because if a lie is everywhere, then there is no truth.

If the only thing we are told is a lie, then it becomes the truth.

The machine needs feeding. In times of peace, the consumer is the king. In times of war, the government no longer represents the people, but it controls the people, it enslaves the people. War allows the people, the stupid, mindless herd that it is, to forsake its liberty and its freedom for the sake of temporary assurances to its insecurity. For the sake of security, we forsake our rights and our liberty. The very things that our Armies are purporting to defend are sacrificed in order to assure their continued survival. We have to kill democracy to cure it.

We are fed the black cock of lies and we swallow the sweet-tasting junk so that it helps the bittersweet taste go down. We know, deep within us, that something is fundamentally, deeply wrong. But we know that it�s easier to live in ignorance. It�s easier to let bad things happen somewhere else, because we can�t see the consequences. We only see cellophane-wrapped cheesy goodness. We know that everything in the media, everything on television, is there because it helps sell adverts. Adverts are the programme we are watching : the programming around it is merely an attraction. As watchers we are sold the programmes. As advertisers we are sold the consumer who is also the watcher. But the actual programme is never listed. The adverts are what we should be watching. All of this is done so that goods can be sold, units shifted, and money flows back into the system.

And anyone can place an advert. Freedom of speech goes to the highest bidder. Isn�t Capitalism wonderful?


SHEEP

Sorry. Got distracted there. We know that we are easily manipulated by businessmen, powermongers, warmongers, and the people around us. We know we are weak. And we like it. But as a mass, we�re fucking idiots. Sheep. Herds of meat directed around by the artificial desires of advertising and the manipulation of the media by forces and powers that control. We�re just raw material to be moulded into masses and herds that power machines. Capitalism is the new world power.

It�s easier to let other people do our thinking for us. relax. Sit Down. Shut Up. And go back to watching The Tube. Go back to watching Big Brother. Go back to Friends. Go back to EastEnders. Go back to sleep. You�re easier to rule that way.

Don�t dare think for yourself. We�ll call you when we need you. We�ll call you when we need a 17 year old boy to conscript, pressgang, abduct into certain death to support a war you don�t support. We�ll call you then. You won�t be old enough to vote, but fuck it. Die for the democracy you cannot enjoy. The democracy that, even if you survive, you will be denied. Because as we know from George Bush., the man who bribed Democracy to look the other way, that the person who wins the most votes doesn�t get to represent the people.

Democracy doesn�t work.

Mankind has the power to conquer space, to conquer hunger, and poverty, and make this world a paradise on earth. All we need to do - and by �all� I mean, it is all. It is not a small task. All we need to do is look beyond our own security as secular individuals. Divide and conquer was Hitler�s motto. We are divided, and have been conquered. But if we unite, if we act for us, for all of us, we can remove the need for profit, the need for control, the need for anything, and use the planet�s resources and the genius of the human mind for the greater good. Not to make more children, more pollution, more useless newspapers, more useless crap we don�t need but are forced into believing we need.

What we need is something completely different. We need freedom. We need evolution. We need a better world. We can reach a higher plane. We can unite, overthrow the shackles of poverty and profit, and transcend this world. We have the power.

Let us not forget what I said earlier : The only enemy is war itself. The only enemy are those who perpetuate wars. There is only one race, the human race, and you�d be a fucking fool and an idiot to dispute that. Lets get off this planet, work together, and evolve

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