Earth, Inc

I always wanted to put my poli sci degree to work since I paid thousands of dollars for it.

I lived in Washington, DC, New York, L.A., New Jersey, and now San Diego, and have worked for most of the Fortune 500 companies. My original intent was to write for Saturday Night Live since I love satire. Ever since I was little, I wanted the job that Sally had on the Dick Van Dyke show. It’s a wonder I didn’t want to be Laura Petrie, but housewifery was never for me, besides it doesn't pay very well.

I worked as a reporter during college and a for a few years after. I went to the Democratic National Convention, met a lot of politicos, and thought I found my calling in journalism until I realized I preferred comedy. I headed for Hollywood where I became a wannabe screenwriter. That was a wild goose chase despite my sinking into lowbrow comedy writing with scripts like "Pool Jerk," and its sequel, "Rock Jerk," realizing its a 'who you know' world and I'm not related to anybody.  

I settled into the I.T. profession after I realized I didn’t have much stomach for the entertainment world.  I went to Hollywood once - instead of becoming a star, I became a black hole. I saved my notes for a Hollywood-bashing novel I will write before I die, or remake the Betty Davis movie, All About Eve, but will call it, “All About Steve,” and make it gay. 

So, my career vector while not profitable, has been interesting, and I have a lot to write about.  Of course, someone once said to me, “I‘d rather have a job than be fascinating, “ which only now I understand.

My point is, and I do have one, is that politics is everywhere. We are political animals, and every move we make, is a political one. I have seen the cult of the personality in action in the microcosmic world of business and jobs as much as it plays out in the Middle East or Washington, D.C.  

The vitriolic political mood right before the Obama /slash/ McCain showdown is extremely tense and the fascist online rhetoric is worse than in 2000 when the “Repugs stole the Election,” and those damn Liberals co-opted the White House with them there Clintons….

I participated in a writer’s forum of other wannabe screenwriters, where, just today, they advertised a video featuring Obama as “Das Fuhrer,” and the administrator of the group said, “if you don’t like this video, get out of my group,”  - So, I did.

What’s the point of arguing with people with closed minds? There isn’t any, and I just mute them, and walk away from them, turning the other cheek, and just not giving them any more attention. 

I have plenty of contacts ( I won’t call them friends) who email me similar rhetoric and HATER messages along with Jesus chain mail and pleas to pray for their cancer stricken brethren, but I can’t take them seriously anymore. They are not credible. They are insentient beings. They are, sadly, not to be given any of my precious time. They are relegated to the peanut gallery. 

Some people love to argue. Some people create conflict and some people bait others to get negative attention. Those people are children and when they are ready to learn, they will. Until then, we must endure their ignorance and capacity, for they know not what they do. 

They lack the capacity, the understanding, the enlightenment of global consciousness, and the path of mankind, which just might peace, love and understanding, but I'm not convinced. I'm more of the 'survival of the fittest' school, though Darwin is still heretical in most of the country.   

Someone once told me, planet Earth is becoming a Sun, which would explain global warming. Maybe there is no meaning just like the Zen people have been saying all along. We are born to die. Maybe, it’s just Evolution, and this is what we’ve become, just civilized savages, questing for food, sex, shelter, and immortality. 

But, for many of us, we are no longer Americanos, Latinos, Blacks, Catholics, Jews, etc, but citizens of the world. We are Earthlings. 

The next phase of Earth will be Earth, Inc., because, unbeknownst to most Americans, we have sold America or 'mortgaged' her to a global financial empire that is forming up as we speak, readying for the corporate takeover, that no bailout will rescue. 

America isn't "American' anymore, it's a cog in a global machine that depends on oil and the energy of foreign interests to stay afloat, and there's no stopping this machine, because its politics as usual. Politics, you see, is just another word for struggle and conflict, for war and greed, for winning and losing. We are slaves to our jobs, our mortgages, our parents, our children, but our true master is the grava of the big machine called Earth, Inc. And, it runs on oil, coal, and gas.