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They had little money but I never thought of them as poor. They wanted for nothing, recycled before there was such a word. Their passions were not enflamed nor their desires manipulated by [[Advertising]] rooted in the works of Sigmnond Freud as popularized in America and developed for such ill by his nephew [[Propaganda#Eddie_Bernays|Eddy Bernays]]. A grand pile of scrap metal from worn out things was heaped before the workshop garage awaiting a project for which the scraps might be used. We knew not to rip to shreds Christmas wrapping paper on my grandmother‘s packages, because she saved the paper, folding it neatly for use another year. The attic was filled with jars and containers from store bought goods that might be put to good use. Because of boyhood experience of their life, I know that all the blather about economic “growth” raising people out of “poverty” is nothing but yet more [[Propaganda]] of the [[wikipedia:Big_lie|Big Lie]]. | They had little money but I never thought of them as poor. They wanted for nothing, recycled before there was such a word. Their passions were not enflamed nor their desires manipulated by [[Advertising]] rooted in the works of Sigmnond Freud as popularized in America and developed for such ill by his nephew [[Propaganda#Eddie_Bernays|Eddy Bernays]]. A grand pile of scrap metal from worn out things was heaped before the workshop garage awaiting a project for which the scraps might be used. We knew not to rip to shreds Christmas wrapping paper on my grandmother‘s packages, because she saved the paper, folding it neatly for use another year. The attic was filled with jars and containers from store bought goods that might be put to good use. Because of boyhood experience of their life, I know that all the blather about economic “growth” raising people out of “poverty” is nothing but yet more [[Propaganda]] of the [[wikipedia:Big_lie|Big Lie]]. | ||
My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. If you used up rations in your book, then you could make no more purchases. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), not just the sale of munitions and supplies for the war itself, but rebuilding that commenced after the war when taxpayer dollars were “loaned” as aid | My mom was in high school during the war, and remembers her family having a ration book in which merchants kept track of what was bought per year, with restrictions on quantities, such as only 1 pair of shoes per person and 1 set of tires. If you used up rations in your book, then you could make no more purchases. In other words, America instituted a regulated, planned economy in the 1940s and that was alright by the monied capitalist industrialist powers since it enabled them to fatten themselves on war profits like [[wikipedia:Daddy_Warbucks|Daddy Warbucks]], but after the war such regulation was denounced (by way of [[Propaganda]] of the [[Propaganda#Ad_Council|Ad Council]]) as “socialism” and “communism” that threatened The American Way of life. From WWII, America learned that war was good for the economy (having lifted the American economy out of the Great Depression), not just the sale of munitions and supplies for the war itself, but rebuilding that commenced after the war when taxpayer dollars were “loaned” as aid to the war ravaged and the money pocketed by American contractors, yet another shill game of [[Organized crime]] perpetrated on an unsuspecting American public . And so [[The System]] grew powerful post War by way of [[Permanent war economy]], making “defense contractors” major employers along with Big [[Government]] bureaucracy, | ||
We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized crime]], yet conspiratorial lying of the John Birch Society (stepchild of McCarthyism) via its parlor game of [[Albert_E._Burke#%22Creeping_Socialism%22|“Creeping Socialism”]], has been played well into the 21st century and only gotten worse for wear. Christians especially should have known all along that stealing lands of [[First Peoples]] and exploitation of human [[Labor]] by way of indentured servitude and slavery for no purpose other than for riches, for [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]], constituted [[Organized crime]], and that such is not only unethical, but immoral from a Christian perspective. True Christianity should be antidote to all such evils, and should have opposed development of [[The System]] instead of aiding and abetting its development as American “Christianity” has over the many decades with its heretical [[wikipedia:Prosperity_theology|Prosperity Gospel]] that posits riches (in Calvinistic Puritan fashion) as being proof of favor from God. This lie was evidenced initially in the [[wikipedia:Conservatism#The_Gilded_Age|The Gilded Age]] and [[wikipedia:Gay_Nineties|Gay Nineties]] in the 19th century continuing to the [[wikipedia:Roaring_Twenties|Roaring Twenties]] in the 20th century, laid low only by the [[wikipedia:Great_Depression|Great Depression]]. The same “Christian” form of Mammon worship was revived post WarII in the 80s Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years, continuing to today.<br> | We now know that McCarthyism and the whole Red Scare was nothing but a ploy to distract from what was becoming [[The System]] of [[Organized crime]], yet conspiratorial lying of the John Birch Society (stepchild of McCarthyism) via its parlor game of [[Albert_E._Burke#%22Creeping_Socialism%22|“Creeping Socialism”]], has been played well into the 21st century and only gotten worse for wear. Christians especially should have known all along that stealing lands of [[First Peoples]] and exploitation of human [[Labor]] by way of indentured servitude and slavery for no purpose other than for riches, for [[Capitalism#Love_of_Money|Love of Money]], constituted [[Organized crime]], and that such is not only unethical, but immoral from a Christian perspective. True Christianity should be antidote to all such evils, and should have opposed development of [[The System]] instead of aiding and abetting its development as American “Christianity” has over the many decades with its heretical [[wikipedia:Prosperity_theology|Prosperity Gospel]] that posits riches (in Calvinistic Puritan fashion) as being proof of favor from God. This lie was evidenced initially in the [[wikipedia:Conservatism#The_Gilded_Age|The Gilded Age]] and [[wikipedia:Gay_Nineties|Gay Nineties]] in the 19th century continuing to the [[wikipedia:Roaring_Twenties|Roaring Twenties]] in the 20th century, laid low only by the [[wikipedia:Great_Depression|Great Depression]]. The same “Christian” form of Mammon worship was revived post WarII in the 80s Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years, continuing to today.<br> | ||