Dear George,
America is a nation of go-getters, a nation of ambitious and hard-working people driven to scale the heights of greatness no matter what the obstacles. They are builders and creators. No structure is too tall to build, no plan too grandiose to execute, no swamp too deep to drain
Unfortunately, only ten-percent of the population fits this description. The problem is the remaining ninety percent who, if left to their druthers, are content with living human lives in which they love, raise families, celebrate or mourn, laugh or cry, win some or lose some. It is an intolerable situation.
The solution is top-down rule by ambitious sociopaths. The structural model for this relationship is the southern overseer of yore who made the plantation a model of economic efficiency. These were the glory days of conflict-free labor relations when workers knew their place and the miasma of tranquility engulfed the land. Those people understood the value of hard work, driven as they were by the whip of ambition.
The death of this bucolic system ultimately gave rise to the welfare state that once again allowed people to be human. Praise God, the times they are a changing. We will never recreate that utopian system of old, but this has not stopped us from using it as a model for our postindustrial world of labor relations.
Our elite thrive on stress. Ninety percenters must be goaded and driven to achieve the same level of 24/7 stress enjoyed by their betters. Insecurity has replaced whip as a motivator of ambition. Falling wages and empty benefits are their new chains binding individuals to working conditions that make the plantations of old look like vacation spas.
Hard work created America, and our elite are going to make sure this tradition continues using any means, foul or fair. Just as the plantation thrived in an atmosphere of total social control, so will the Corporatist State thrive through the same. Impoverishment is the key to this control. By gutting our manufacturing sector, we force the proles to scramble for low-paying jobs in the service sector.
Wal-Mart has replaced the plantation, and we are a stronger nation because of it.
To be human is to be lazy.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
5:22:27 AM 
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