One Big Factory
What do you mean, you want to get rid of America?
I mean I want to get rid of America! I am speaking plainly.
That is, of course, impossible, you say. That is, of course, unrealistic. That is nonsense and you should shut the fuck up!
What is Utah? Is Utah America? What is Utah? Do you believe Utah is the same as America? What is Portland? Do you believe Portland is the same as America? What is New Orleans? What is South Carolina? What is Duke Basketball? Are they the same as America? Or do each have their own rules?
There is no America! There are places that make their own rules that also accept a bunch of weirdos with Nuclear Goddam Weapons can kick them out at any time! We just… accept it. We accept that cops who don’t live in Atlanta, Lawyers who don’t live in Atlanta, can come in, at any time, and chop down a fucking forest!
Call their bluff! Call the army on fucking Atlanta!
Cop city can’t exist if Atlanta is Atlanta. If Atlanta is not America. There is no America!
To what are you pledging allegiance? You don’t know those guys! They’re lunatics with nuclear bombs! And they’ve somehow convinced all of us that this is unfortunate but necessary!
I swear to you on whatever I care about more than my own life, I don’t care what country you are talking about that has nuclear weapons, 99% of the people are exactly like you, and think murder everyone weapons are bad! Only absolute lunatics are totally onboard with the idea that we should be able to murder everyone at any time for any reason!
And we let them run the world!
Stop. Stop everything. Stop the systems. Stop working. Stop stopping other people. Stop everything. We are the machinery. The lunatics build nuclear bombs using us. Seriously, stop. They won’t call your bluff because they are terrified of you. That’s why they built nuclear bombs!
They didn’t build them for us! They didn’t build them for Iranians! They didn’t build them for Russians! They didn’t build them for anyone but themselves! The governments of all of these countries are crazy and out of control!
Imagine yourself at work tomorrow, doing nothing for an hour. Any job, literally any job, do nothing for an hour. Then the next day, do nothing for two hours. And then the next day, DO NOTHING! Don’t strike. Don’t fight. Don’t picket. That’s just the machinery moving along. What do you get for fighting? Some more! Some!
What we can get for doing nothing is the complete shutdown of the entire system. We know this because we lived through a pandemic where everyone was terrified the entire system would completely shut down!
Do nothing at work! With everyone you know! If you and I and everyone you know do nothing for two weeks, for a month, the entire global economic system will collapse. Can you survive for two weeks? Can you and your community survive together for one month? Imagine! If enough people did, then the entire global financial system will collapse!
And it will happen automatically! Because the entire global financial system is dependent upon machine algorithms that react to slight variations of input. This is true! This is the Flash Crash. This is Gamestop. This is the entire global financial system! If you do nothing, the whole system will collapse because these people are bluffing!
Who cares if there’s an army? If 50 million people do nothing for two weeks, everyone will go broke together! What a wild idea! And if everyone is broke, we can start over together without asking for permission from rich people with nuclear weapons!
Because America isn’t real. It’s just a big factory.
