TOM
You
can’t get caught up in this stuff. Politics comes and goes. Things change. The
names change. The situations change. Even democracy changes, but you can’t just
lose your cool about everything and start ranting and inciting violence.
MIKLOS
Capitalism
is a bitter comedy – a sick farce where the punchline is usually exploitation
and murder. Look at the recent killings of striking miners. Over 30 people dead
in a pointless bloodbath. And the government charges the miners with murder
because they say that the miners provoked the police. Can you imagine? Miners
who might have been throwing bottles or rocks shot dead by heavily armed police
and then the miners, THE MINERS, are charged with murder. But now the
punchline.
The
government says they’ll drop the charges and set the miners free and then
everyone should just forget about the whole thing. That’s capitalism. I’ll
murder you and then charge you with murder and then drop the charges in the
spirit of good fellowship.
MIKLOS
Henry
Ford got his big idea for revolutionizing the assembly line from a visit to a
slaughterhouse. Who could possibly be surprised by this?
TOM
TRYING
to improve human beings is an inherently fascist project. All you can do is
educate people and teach them to reason and create some kind of moral center.
Everything beyond that is fascism.
TOM
The
beauty in the way a dancer holds her body. With such pride and power. The
beauty of an elegant and sophisticated French woman. Beauty that comes from
some inside knowledge and some kind of relationship with the culture. This
movement toward chaos is not going to help anyone. It’s not going to be good
for anyone.
I’m
against welfare and in favor of harsh immigration policies. I hope that
Republicans win your election and follow through on everything they say they
want to do. Because maybe then, with a large number of disaffected people who
can finally see the hatred and contempt of so many Americans standing naked in
the sunlight with no more pretense and no more cosmetic surgery to make it look
like a democracy, maybe you will finally do something. Maybe you will finally
stand up.
You
want democracy to look pretty and so democracy has had her nose done and put
collagen in her lips and possibly has anal bleaching, but these things do not
change the reality of the situation.
This,
this is the anal bleaching of America. A purely cosmetic procedure
that only appeals to a few people who get to see it anyway. In essence, the
changes remain hidden and their ultimate value is dubious.
Your
democracy has been cut up and pieced together more times than the Frankenstein
monster and like that creature made from corpses, your democracy is actually
dead and has only the external image of life.
No one
has any rights to profits that imperil the financial health of an entire
country. No one has any right to profits that lead to the murder of striking
workers.These are absolutes. There can be no compromise.
If you
don't learn to be more sophisticated. If you don't learn to use reason and to
develop your intellect. If you don't learn to make distinctions and to be able
to see the difference in things, who will?
