The Ungovernable

Don’t Lose Sleep Over an Economy That Doesn’t Exist

America. Land of the free. Home of the brave. Old glory. Stars and stripes forever. The land of opportunity. The place where a man can rise from nothing and make something for himself. This is all taken straight from the pamphlets and promotional materials; the text books and the national mythology that we hold so dear. Never has it been further from the truth than it is now.

You see, when all of that was first written, America was a lot smaller. We started off as 13 colonies and only a few thousand people. It was a lot easier to apply these ideas and ideals to a country that merely stretched over a portion of the East Coast. In the beginning, America was an experiment being run by a group of men who had some interesting ideas that hadn’t been tested. The country started off as an intellectual petrie dish. The Founding Fathers were the original political think tank.

Now, we’re America Inc. We have become a highly commercialized, competitive, market-friendly, business-oriented entity that can hardly be classified as a national body. America functions more like a gargantuan company which employs 305 million people and maintains a standing army. It is arguable that the United States hasn’t fought in a war in the past 60 years that hasn’t hinged directly on protecting our economic interests rather than defending any lofty ideals such as democracy, freedom or justice. Even the hierarchy of our government is run like a major corporation. Each election, the same names pop up on the ballot. Fathers pass their legacies on to their sons. It’s like a family business except in a much larger, far more terrifying way.

It begins to get humorous (or at least stunningly ironic) when one realizes that these people that we’ve elected to run the national business are actually terrible businessmen with no idea of how human nature or the world in which they’ve chosen to become titans works. They sell our land, jobs and products out from under us to the highest bidder. They invade other countries to secure control over their energy supply and then proceed to sell it off to private corporations who, in turn, sell it back to America’s workforce at astronomical prices. Worst of all, they take American made arms and sell them to countries that we’re just going to assault later for having them in the first place. It’s an insane cycle that breeds astounding uncertainty.

Well, the uncertainty has come home to roost and now the domestic “economy” is collapsing. However, here’s something you won’t get from the nightly news business round-up: the economy doesn’t really exist. It’s a secret that is hardly ever uttered aloud in this world, and it isn’t a popular thing to say because people have invested so much time and care into it, but it isn’t real. Money is merely paper that we’ve imbued with value to compensate for work done or services rendered. The economy is a system that we’ve created to describe and track this false currency. Though it may be hard to swallow, this system is all an illusion and its only purpose is to scare the masses into worrying and turning to the government for salvation.

Let us turn away from them for salvation! As the stock market plummets and businesses collapse one after another, let us move away from this commercial economy and turn towards a community-based system of self- sufficiency and self-reliance. No more bills to pay, no more pointless jobs to slave at every day. No more wealthy families with all the power and none of the responsibility. Our government bails out failed businesses and pays out white-collar criminals with our money. They have betrayed us over and over. Let us, once and for all, turn towards ourselves, our families and our communities and reclaim what is rightfully ours. The time is right, let’s take back our world.