Lars Redoubt
April 7th, 2008, 01:31 AM
17 MAR 08
Hail Stevie! Many thanks for your letter of 13 MAR 08. I hope you like your latest residence. Some people say that “A change is as good as a rest.” I guess they meant that I could turn my desk around instead of taking a trip to Paris or Istanbul. It sounds like a Scottish saying to me, like, “A stopped dock is right twice a day.” Come to think of it, I can sit right here in Yakima, & feel as if I’ve gone to Mexico. Such a deal! Think of all the money I save by having the Mexicans come here, rather than my going down to Mexico. They are paid to come here by the U.S. tax-payers, to more than make up for the low wages they receive from the fatcat felon gringos who hire them. The USA was founded on the myth of “cheap labor,” & it will founder for the same reason. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.”
If your friend or anyone else wants to write to me, I’d be happy to reply. I answer all letters, but first, I have to receive them. Ha!
Veblen’s message is simple: We live in a semi-barbaric society in which crooks are rewarded & productive people are penalized. With wealth comes status in such a society, so that status is advertised. In warlord (feudal) societies, the fatcat felons had castles & land surrounding them, which could be used for farming or grazing livestock. But using the land for productive purposes was viewed as ‘low-status’ in influential circles. Productive land-use was a sign of poverty, so the fattest fatcat felons would take fields out of production, & to show how really rich they were, they’d employ gardeners to plant lawns, trees & flowers, & keep them manicured. Veblen called this “conspicuous consumption.” Consider suburban life in this regard: My poor, hardworking parents paid to maintain a patch of grass around their suburban house. This lawn was too small to play on, since the neighbors’ houses were too close. Our lots were too small, since that’s what we could afford, but we could all mow, water & fertilize our respective patches of lawn, & pay to have the cuttings hauled away. Such a deal! I could understand this conspicuous consumption was a status symbol, which was intended for us to “keep up with the Joneses,” as we used to say. Apparently, the mythical Joneses were charged with imposing conformity on us sheeple. For the most part, it worked, but I could see it was a scam which robbed us of time & freedom, as well as cash. This folly led me to wonder just how & who dictated our fashions of clothing, behavior & consumption. Vance Packard wrote in “The Hidden Persuaders” that advertising makes things ‘popular,’ rather than the consumer-masses, for advertising tells us what we ‘should’ consume. Movies influenced fashions, hair-styles & consumption, for example. Consider how they ‘glamorized’ smoking. The tough-guy hero lit up & puffed away, so Goy-boy, if ya like him, ya wanta smoke like him! Actresses used cigarettes seductively, to make smoking seem ‘sexy.’ Sex was the trick to sell all sorts of items, including cars & cigars.
On this theme of freedom versus exploitation, I recommend a little book by the Roman Tacitus: “The Agricola & the Germania.” He describes the expansion of The Roman Empire, to obtain more land &, above all, more slaves, on behalf of the rich Romans. Tacitus described Rome’s use of force & decadence to enslave peoples, by teaching them to fear Rome & to love its comforts & conveniences. Tacitus compared the decadence of Rome with the virtues of the Germans. He believed that German virtues were once Roman virtues, but no longer, when he wrote, & it was certainly Rome’s loss. That was merely one cost of empire, as we see in our imperial adventures, for the USA was, like Rome, a republic of the rich, & rooted in slavery. ZOG’s problems & aspirations are remarkably similar to those of decadent Rome, so our fate is likely to be similar.
Imagine that you were ZOG: The USA has the largest prison population in the world. You must feed, clothe & house this increasing population. You must also pay to guard them. The former Soviet Jewnion thought it could pay ˝ the people to guard the other ˝, but they went broke, for prisons are basically unproductive & prison labor is not really ‘cheap.’ Of course, profit-making at tax-payers’ expense is an old racket, as wars prove, but what happens when that source of wealth is tapped out by an economic crisis, which we are now experiencing? So far, we are borrowing money which jew-banksters create out of nothing, but that money is becoming worthless because of inflation. Can ZOG ‘solve’ its problems with a North American Union, which will import more Mexican poverty? Can it go for World War III? How can it turn this North American population into profit? This is a mystery to me. Perhaps ZOG will kill us off & go into the real estate business. China has the need for land, & ZOG always has the greed. Stay tuned. Stay healthy. All the best. ORION!
Eric
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Write to:
Mr. Eric Thomson
P.O. Box 896
Yakima, Washington 98907-0896
U.S.A.
Hail Stevie! Many thanks for your letter of 13 MAR 08. I hope you like your latest residence. Some people say that “A change is as good as a rest.” I guess they meant that I could turn my desk around instead of taking a trip to Paris or Istanbul. It sounds like a Scottish saying to me, like, “A stopped dock is right twice a day.” Come to think of it, I can sit right here in Yakima, & feel as if I’ve gone to Mexico. Such a deal! Think of all the money I save by having the Mexicans come here, rather than my going down to Mexico. They are paid to come here by the U.S. tax-payers, to more than make up for the low wages they receive from the fatcat felon gringos who hire them. The USA was founded on the myth of “cheap labor,” & it will founder for the same reason. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.”
If your friend or anyone else wants to write to me, I’d be happy to reply. I answer all letters, but first, I have to receive them. Ha!
Veblen’s message is simple: We live in a semi-barbaric society in which crooks are rewarded & productive people are penalized. With wealth comes status in such a society, so that status is advertised. In warlord (feudal) societies, the fatcat felons had castles & land surrounding them, which could be used for farming or grazing livestock. But using the land for productive purposes was viewed as ‘low-status’ in influential circles. Productive land-use was a sign of poverty, so the fattest fatcat felons would take fields out of production, & to show how really rich they were, they’d employ gardeners to plant lawns, trees & flowers, & keep them manicured. Veblen called this “conspicuous consumption.” Consider suburban life in this regard: My poor, hardworking parents paid to maintain a patch of grass around their suburban house. This lawn was too small to play on, since the neighbors’ houses were too close. Our lots were too small, since that’s what we could afford, but we could all mow, water & fertilize our respective patches of lawn, & pay to have the cuttings hauled away. Such a deal! I could understand this conspicuous consumption was a status symbol, which was intended for us to “keep up with the Joneses,” as we used to say. Apparently, the mythical Joneses were charged with imposing conformity on us sheeple. For the most part, it worked, but I could see it was a scam which robbed us of time & freedom, as well as cash. This folly led me to wonder just how & who dictated our fashions of clothing, behavior & consumption. Vance Packard wrote in “The Hidden Persuaders” that advertising makes things ‘popular,’ rather than the consumer-masses, for advertising tells us what we ‘should’ consume. Movies influenced fashions, hair-styles & consumption, for example. Consider how they ‘glamorized’ smoking. The tough-guy hero lit up & puffed away, so Goy-boy, if ya like him, ya wanta smoke like him! Actresses used cigarettes seductively, to make smoking seem ‘sexy.’ Sex was the trick to sell all sorts of items, including cars & cigars.
On this theme of freedom versus exploitation, I recommend a little book by the Roman Tacitus: “The Agricola & the Germania.” He describes the expansion of The Roman Empire, to obtain more land &, above all, more slaves, on behalf of the rich Romans. Tacitus described Rome’s use of force & decadence to enslave peoples, by teaching them to fear Rome & to love its comforts & conveniences. Tacitus compared the decadence of Rome with the virtues of the Germans. He believed that German virtues were once Roman virtues, but no longer, when he wrote, & it was certainly Rome’s loss. That was merely one cost of empire, as we see in our imperial adventures, for the USA was, like Rome, a republic of the rich, & rooted in slavery. ZOG’s problems & aspirations are remarkably similar to those of decadent Rome, so our fate is likely to be similar.
Imagine that you were ZOG: The USA has the largest prison population in the world. You must feed, clothe & house this increasing population. You must also pay to guard them. The former Soviet Jewnion thought it could pay ˝ the people to guard the other ˝, but they went broke, for prisons are basically unproductive & prison labor is not really ‘cheap.’ Of course, profit-making at tax-payers’ expense is an old racket, as wars prove, but what happens when that source of wealth is tapped out by an economic crisis, which we are now experiencing? So far, we are borrowing money which jew-banksters create out of nothing, but that money is becoming worthless because of inflation. Can ZOG ‘solve’ its problems with a North American Union, which will import more Mexican poverty? Can it go for World War III? How can it turn this North American population into profit? This is a mystery to me. Perhaps ZOG will kill us off & go into the real estate business. China has the need for land, & ZOG always has the greed. Stay tuned. Stay healthy. All the best. ORION!
Eric
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Write to:
Mr. Eric Thomson
P.O. Box 896
Yakima, Washington 98907-0896
U.S.A.