Rant #2: What Democracy is left?

[l_c_h_a_n]

So, I wasn't going to post this until I'd had some time to think about it. After all, the decision was just handed down today. Certainly I will need more time to consider all the ramifications of such a monumental decision. Certainly I will need more time to decide exactly how this will impact the democracy we have grown up with and think that we

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[hubbit]

The corporate system is, plain and simple, parasitic. It drains us all, and in return gives us less that we really should have and charges us for it. I just...I'm not sure how cogent I can be, which is why I haven't responded to this before now. But yes, I feel that SCOTUS has basically sold the American People down the river. What's already horrible has the potential to become astronomically worse

[l_c_h_a_n]

For the history of corporations and specifically on corporate personhood, this is a great resource. Also, you might enjoy this movie, which is all about the ascension of the corporate state.

It is all interconnected, our food is as commercialized as our clothing as our houses as our lives. I believe in a self-sufficiency movement, and there are a great deal of books out there on how to do things for yourself. Not just gardening and raising animals and making your own clothes, but building structures (made much more difficult by safety codes, but they're there for a reason), constructing wells and DIY plumbing, electricity, just about anything. We live in a made-to-order society, where everything can be done for you by someone else if you pay them enough money. Myself, I'd like to buy a plot of land on the cheap, construct a house, have a farm and livestock and wind/solar power. Unfortunately, it costs a great deal of money to make all of this happen, and I highly doubt I'll make much as a protester/writer/skeptic