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Inchoate Rage
From William Buckler, author of The Privateer
Inchoate Rage
To talk about something as being “inchoate” means that it is still in its formative stages and is undeveloped. If rage is “inchoate”, it does not yet have a specific cause or those who feel the rage are not sure of the nature of what is causing the emotion. Like their compatriots all over the world, Americans know that what is coming out of their politicians and “financiers” is a load of malevolent hogwash, but they cannot put their finger on precisely why this is so. Many suspect the truth but do not want to face it because of what it implies about their own actions as well as the actions of their rulers.
It is a very old adage of the study of history and politics that no form of government can survive - in the long term - without pandering to public opinion. That is why the more despotic the government, the greater the effort they make to “mould” public opinion to their own purposes. All such governments are intent on making it as difficult as they possibly can for their subjects to hear the truth. In fact, they go further than that. All such governments are intent on creating a situation in which most of their subjects would not recognise the truth if they DID hear it. This creates the perfect breeding ground for “inchoate rage”. The people know they are being lied to but lack the ability, and in many cases the inclination, to find out what the truth really is. That is why most political revolutions are so savage. The people who are revolting know what they are against but have nothing but the most hazy notion of what they are for.
The US government claims that the “economy” is recovering. The American people know it is not. The US government claims that unemployment is going down and prices are not going up. The American people know that both are going up. The US government claim that the “extraordinary” financial measures are specifically intended to safeguard the prosperity of the people. Americans know that their prosperity has evaporated and that the government is making it as hard as they possibly can for the people to regain it.
A growing number of Americans (and people right around the world) know all these things. They know that in reality, the government is living on their backs. But their rage remains “inchoate” because they have not yet faced the fact that the “entitlements” they refuse to surrender is what is keeping them in bondage. It is true that Americans are confused and that many if not most of them are angry. Until they face the ROOT of their problems, they are destined to stay that way.
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now just add darkness, and hell is ready!
Dollar is paper and gold is a rock.
used to be held together by faith, now by fear.
most don't know why, and would not understand.
because where they are looking is a hole deep as
God.
The inchoate rage of Hillary Clinton's uterus .... without a man in her life !
I just upped Monedas' comment. Should I kill myself? Don't answer that!
You have entered the inchoate Twilight Zone .... proceed at your own risk !
I sure wouldn't want to be Obama. Talk about a bullseye on your back.
Yes. This should work: the working class can end their bondage by ending entitlements. Now if he could only figure out how he makes a profit when this happens we will be all set. :)
Had an idea this morning when reading another ZH article (Jim Quinn's on the USPS), so here goes.
I propose that ZH start up a traveling road show, populated by guest posters and various commenters. We are a diverse group, spread around the world, but, the one thing separating us all from the other 99% of the population is that we all have a fairly good grasp of what's wrong with the system and also this "incohate" rage (not so incohate in some of us).
I envision a series of SH town hall meetings, expositions, speeches, etc., run by the posters and commenters in cities or locales near where they live. It could be coordinated and promoted here and I believe would encourage the general public to take more interest in the system that's fucking all of us. I'd be happy to be a part of it and help organize it.
Just an idea whose time may be coming. I've thought of doing this kind of thing myself, but I know I'm not nearly expert enough to go it alone. The rest of America needs the thoughts and ideas of the ZH crowd, to help them awaken and maybe even fight back.
Any ideas would be more than welcome, especially from any of the Tylers.
Isn't that called the tea party? Just like them, I can't wait to be branded a paranoid racist by the media.
It is not news that the world is taking steps to move away from dollar as reserve currency. Certainly this reflects th struggles that the us is having. It is said that the us supports this more as it gives them more leeway to print or default or whatever. So it is at the same time helpful and in indication of shift of influence.
Also it has been commonly reported that when SHF gold might initially spike down andor become volatile because it will be called as collateral or whatever. Following that it has been said it will launch but may be a rough ride. But I am no gold bug as I expect it will be made illegal for regular folk as has happed in the past.
"The people know they are being lied to but lack the ability, and in many cases the inclination, to find out what the truth really is."
or, they are so weak willed that their minds are easily susceptible to outside control
take Turd Ferguson for example
from his latest blog post: "So, I guess I'll start with myself. I think everyone knows this but I'll state it again: I'm just a nobody. I live in the American Midwest and my entire life has been spent doing pretty-much normal stuff. About five years ago, I quit the "corporate ladder" and pursued a path of independence. In 2009, I discovered ZeroHedge and the rest, as they say, is history. I now find myself in the middle of a global struggle against elements of the established central and bullion banking order. Suffice it to say: It's a surreal existence and not one that I could ever have envisioned."
see how easily a person can be flipped from one mode to another, in this case simply by reading an influential website? now he finds himself in an act of self-flagellation in front of his thousands of hapless followers
"At this critical time, I should have anticipated that all necessary measures would be taken to discourage the ownership of any form of money other than fiat currency. In failing to recognize this contingency, I failed you, my dear reader. "
when Tyler Durden starts saying shit like that on Zero Hedge, then we'll know we have a serious problem
stay strong, bro...
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." CS Lewis
Society has moved to dependence on that of the world, governments are the tool of Satan himself to enslave those people who believe such nonsense.
And these false believers/hopers are now in control, they are the majority.
Anger will turn to despair and eventually violence as the duped realize they have been fooled, lied to and robbed.
And Satan will dance again ... for a while at least.
sschu
"God rules in Heaven, money rules the earth. In this world even the devil dances for gold"
- old Swiss proverb quoted by Adam Smith in Supermoney.
we are stupid enough to allow diebold computer voting, that a millisecond after your vote, the machine cannot report what you voted, no printout, no audit trail,,, yet voters still go and vote..if a system has no checks there will be fraud by those who control it..next time someone says the voters voted for it, you might want to think about this.
the correct statement is this vote outcome is what the elite needed and got.
Great point that seems to get lost during the lulls between elections.
If there's one thing that ought to be protected with all available means, its the right to vote.
There ought to be an Amendment to the Constitution requiring paper ballots. Slightly more inconvenient and time intensive, but much more resistant to fraud, and with a paper trail...literally.
Any government that does not know how to stay away from war needs to be wiped out both as a service to its citizens and as a service to humanity....
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/14/177204417/will-lightning-strike-twice-for-...
Will Lightning Strike Twice For K-Pop's PSY?This is NPR's current story. Decades ago they would have never had anything even remotely as narcissistic, but here we are.
and meanwhile in Britain Thatcher protesters have been warned that they "could be arrested for "alarming or distressing" mourners at the funeral of Baroness Thatcher"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/13/dont-upset-margaret-thatcher-mourners
But dancing in the streets to "Ding-Dong, the witch is dead" is surely okay, isn't it?
It's okay by me.
Yet I'll bet green money that you think that the Westboro Baptist Church should be banned.
It's one thing to be dumb. It's quite another to be vocal about it.
You would lose. Might not agree with what the Westboro Church says but I support their right to say it. And I support their right to protest.
I guess you agree with herding all the sheeple into "free speech zones" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone). Sorry I don't.
And I really don't get all the Thatcher supporters on ZH. Yeah she decimated the unions - that might appeal to some here (not me for various reasons that would take too long to articulate) - but she was also instrumental in ushering in the neoliberal, globalization policies that led to the current economic mess in Britain and in other western countries. And also militarization of police:
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/09/the_woman_who_wrecked_great_britain/
She was a worker bee for TPTB and quite a succesful one - and now the UK while imposing austerity on the general populace, is going to spend millions and give her what is in fact a state funeral.
At some point, people will say no. I hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSvyai33vhc
My only comment about Westboro is the same for every god-forsaken scum bag church, synogogue, symbol of religiosity, icon, and every "church leader," sacral symbol, etc, etc etc etc:
Tax them all to hell and back a thousand times over till every god-forsaken one of them disappears from the face of the earth.
If your method of expressing your relationship with God requires a building and a Moses you and your friends and your symbols can go to hell in a hand basket right now.
Bye-bye. Enjoy the ride.
france 1789. book it!
I believe the Occupy Movement was more akin to the Winter Palace incident of 1905, the proles peacefully petitioning their government to be brutally taken down by the Czar's Imperial Guard.
Good word, I`ve been looking for somethign like Inchoate to explain problems in general.
It is frustrating that even the very bright and educated people who post to these blogs are reduced to debating about what is real money and how a free economy works. So apparently we have made little progress since we embarkered on this experiment.
But come on Bitcoin...Really?
Meh...
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
And now Buckler decides to close up shop. Inchoate, indeed !!
Our children are starting thier lives with debt that there is a high probability they will not be able to repay or if they can it will cost them dearly.
It is analogous to the days when the lord of the land would sleep with the bride to be.
The us has a big advantage in that we've made an industry of policing the world and supplying arms to do so - karma is not good.
Don't worry that debt will never be paid by your children or anybody else's. Believe it or not the Ponzi has been going on since WW1 and the debt keeps getting bigger. The essence of the trick is that governments can keep borrowing and spending without ever paying back any of it. In the end the debt vanishes through inflation or default.
I talked to my daughter about this just the other day. She is highly intelligent and quite aware, but she said to me; "Dad, I'm so busy trying to raise my kids, pay the mortgage, put healthy food on the table, all while holding down a full time job, to have time to worry about all of this right now.
I think you all have a tendency to give people short shrift just because they are too busy trying to live their lives, raise their families, and live a decent life. Just because they have to prioritize their time doesn't mean they are ignorant of what is happenning.
But we do like to pigeon hole people, after all. How else can we hold ourselves in high esteem unless we create a great unwashed to look down upon.
If a path to the better there be, it has to begin with a full look at the worst ...
Your daughter isn't the problem, unless she's voting for pols who tell her everything's fine...or worse yet, that the guys saying its unsustainable are kooks, racists, liars, paranoid, etc....and she votes in agreement.
She has never voted, she realizes it for the sham it is. She tries to get a handle on the things she can control, and chooses not to get hung up about the things she can't.
Like Fukushima blasting radiation all over the Mexican and Californian and Pacific food sources. Like the rest of us we just hope for the best, but it kills her that she has so little options for her kids. But when you live in Canada, what choice do you have in winter. She tries to buy south american produce when available, but it's eat it or starve.
I guess we don't have the entitlement to a safe food source.
"Beware the Military-Industrial Complex .... don't let their important work .... on external threats .... detract you from addressing .... the internal threat .... of the Welfare-Indolent Complex !" .... Eisenhower's unedited first draft ?
A couple of small points:
1. People wont let go of their "entitlements" for at least two reasons:
a. They've earned their entitlements (SSI) and dislike being cheated to their faces
b. The entitlements are all they have, and if they lose those they will have exactly nothing.
2. It is senseless to point at owners or consumers. The "leadership" created the system. The owners and consumers simply play their assigned roles. We need new leadership whose impact is much smaller.
Entitlements are the problem? Social Security is not the problem, and although Medicare certainly is, we had a chance to do something decades ago before our national healthcare system morphed into a bloated, expensive, government protected Frankenstein. Are you saying privatization of everything is our only hope? God help us all then. Decimation of humankind may be the answer.
And even if it's not the answer, it'll shirley be what we all will get!
Apparently, the entire purpose of this article is to solve the financial crisis by denying promised Social Security and Medicare to American citizens who, as everyone knows, were forced to contribute to a government Ponzi their entire working lives with the lie that it would enable them to have a supplemental income available in their retirement.
If this isn’t a continuing crisis on the backs of the citizens then I don’t know what is.
And, again, the misuse of the word “entitlements” enables the “deficit hawks” to misinform the public by lumping welfare payments together with paid-up Social Security benefits and calling them all “entitlements.”
The author, with his long detailed description of American anguish over the failed system, actually uses the foundations of truth to join in league with Bob Rubin and the other “let’s cut Social Security or else it will sink all of us” gang of wealth redistributionists.
And make no mistake, reducing future SS benefits and advancing the age for the receipt of benefits is only the baby step toward cutting it for everyone now. The secret American robbery called inflation which so adroitly has changed SS into a prescription for senior citizen poverty is already to be ratcheted up by Obama as he seeks a new definition of inflation in order to reduce COLAs (cost of living adjustments) for current SS recipients.
Every stupid Congress since SS was initiated has used the SS trust fund as its ATM to sap the value of it through direct stealing and indirect stealing through inflation so they could pay off their stupid constituents.
And so now, this SS-“welfare”-program-is-killing-us crowd again extends the amount withheld on working people and their employers for these “entitlements” (the Social Security “tax rate” is 12.4% percent on income under $113,700 through the end of 2013 with the Medicare “tax rate” at 2.9% on all income remaining the same), as they continue to figure out ways to cut them off at the pass when it’s time for them to retire.
The special evil twist in this article comes as the author blames SS recipients and working people now paying the SS tax for not being willing to sacrifice and forget the government's promises in order to provide full funding for the insolvent banks and the welfare recipients who vote for Democrats and liberal Republicans. And the author has the nerve to say that Americans’ “rage remains ‘inchoate’ because they have not yet faced the fact that the “entitlements” they refuse to surrender is what is keeping them in bondage.”
No rage mentioned, of course, when Americans figure out that "the roughly 80 overlapping federal means-tested welfare programs that together represented the single largest budget item in 2011 -- equaling more than the nation spends on Social Security, Medicare or national defense -- are set for a 30% increase under Obama's 2013 budget proposal, an "entitlement" that cost them no more than a vote for Obama.
Great comment JR............
Amerikans used to be disdainful of all the Brits "on the dole" but more of us are now looking forward to the day that we'll be provided for by Big Brother.
Since there's no Free Lunch, it's only a matter of time till we start hearing about how we can enter work camps aka gulags where we can pretend to work while they pretend to feed us.
We're no different from farm animals, in the aggregate.
I respectfully request link supporting JR's last paragraph. There is a lot of new information for me in JR's post.
What about the fact that when FDR signed the SS bill the average age of death was post-retirement age and now people live about ten years past retirement? Also, I read here at ZH that the first SS recipient (a woman) collected about ten times her total amount contributed. If true, does this not support the claim the entire contract was fraudulent and non-sustainable? And is it not legal and appropriate to burn such contracts?
welcome to the world of 'george carlin'!!!
'his black humour parsed between the lines of propagandist... all-- as that of a great poet choosing his words wisely from a virgin inkwell, using only the butt of a piercing quill as his sharp witted tongue-- soothed only by the sublime absurbity of a despotic and solipsistic bifurcated media, aka., cretin syndrome!'
great read and good luck, mr. buckler
A deleted scene from Jaws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avRAB2d4A68
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Mean Brody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipSIR-AnoU
At some point the government milking process will resemble that of taking blood from a stone.
And when government pushes beyond that, it's going to get ugly out there.
Here's a photo of what happens to a bank robber:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308526/Dramatic-moment-armed-FB...
Here's a photo of what happens to a person robbed by a bank:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/10/greek-homeless-shelters-debt...
Again, we get the "entitlements are the problem" meme. If all government payments stopped, the "savings" would simply go into the maw of Leviathan. You would continue to pay the associated taxes, and none of the system would be reformed.
And where would you be? Exactly nowhere.
Of course we get it again, because 400 000 repetitions make it a truth!
You said it, square on! BikeMan. If we give this up, we’ll be exactly where we were before. And then we’ll have to give up something else.
Like Tyler said earlier, regarding Cyprus...and, then, you’ll have to give up a kidney!
This is exactly what the 1% think. Entitlements are the problem, not the infectious greed of the 1% who want it all.
Amen, and pass the ammunition!
need a speedloader?
But their rage remains “inchoate” because they have not yet faced the fact that the “entitlements” they refuse to surrender is what is keeping them in bondage
What part of $85billion to banks each month is an entitlement? What part of the military being able to misplace trillions and go unquestioned is an entitlement? What part of corporate welfare is an entitlement? What part of exportation of labor for wage arbitration is an entitlement? What part of unregulated propaganda, advertising, and lending is an entitlement?
I was never a fan of the "Saw" movies and only saw parts of a couple of them, but the premise of entitlements is very much akin to that. The welfareites can choose to do nothing which will keep them in a relatively comfortable, although incohate state of being, but which will ultimately stagnate them indefinitely. They could also choose to do something about the situation, but if it would involve cutting off an arm in exchange for freedom and future prosperity they'd rather not, even knowing that the arm grows back too many would still take the first choice.
Closed down all the ABC federal organizations and return the responsibilities to the states.
Convert all the SS/DI/et al liabilities into private annuities. (At which point the truth will out)(There either is or is not enough money to do this)
Let future income earners do what they wish with their income.
Run the remaining (listed in Constitution) reponsibilities of the Fed Govt via 3% National sales tax.
The House of Representatives can shrink the government entirely on its own. No Senate or Prez signoff required. (Proof? look to past government "shutdowns". No CR and the merry-go-round stops)
How dare you suggest that states take on the burdens for what happens inside their own borders? Get over it, the South lost and we're not in some kind of loose "Confederacy" where the 10th amendment has any sort of meaning and relevancy. Also, tariff and excise taxes are no way to run a country, and are almost as irrelevant as gold and silver in the modern age. //Sarcasm Off.
They will take from .... dose dat got .... an' gib it up .... to dose dat don't got !
***they have not yet faced the fact that the “entitlements” they refuse to surrender is what is keeping them in bondage***
I'm feeling inchoate rage that this bozo is implying that all our problems are caused by Social Security & Medicare.
It's not the disaster of "Free Trade" or the outsourcing of manufacturing and the jobs. It's not the wars and out of control military spending. It's not the billions spent bailing out Wall Street or the fact that most multinational corporation pay no or very low taxes. It's not the fact that the very wealthy are allowed to hide most of their wealth in off shore accounts. OH NO! It's Social Security and Medicare. What an asshole!!
Sorry Henry, you didn't understand what he is saying. He is saying people are unwilling to break the system because they fear they will then lose their "entitlements", thus the "entitlements" are keeping them in bondage. He is not saying "all our problems are caused by Social Security & Medicare".
The irony, of course, is that those "entitlements" are not repayable for today's productive members of society.
***you didn't understand what he is saying***
Then why is it only "entitlements" that he mentioned and not all the other factors that I have pointed out.
The oligarchs don't want to break the system. It's their system and they profit from it big time. The only think they want to break is Social Security and Medicare. This guy is just their toady. Sorry I'm not buying it.
The rage of the Machine! The Police.
We...Live...in a material world!
It's better when it's inchoate - that means it can be channelled and manipulated.
Find a scapegoat, set the dogs on it, profit handsomely...
Good timing, Bill.
One of my ancestors was a privateer for the Crown, and retired to Belize when the piracy laws were enacted. There is no love among money dealers.
Jesus was right to throw the money changers out of the temple of civilisation.
I hope you use your money and kudos for community this time, build a better world instead of merely profit from it.
I'm pretty sure what he actually did was throw them out of a place of worship.
A subtle distinction I suppose...
Difficult to say what the problem is, isn't it?
It's too easy to say that the problem is the currency. People need a way to exchange goods and services, the currency provides that, fiat or not.
Is it too much debt? Possibly but debt is not always bad.
I would generalize and say that the problem is that global financial "capitalism" has morphed into something that is unsustainable, completely at odds with the natural rhythms of life on this planet, and is increasingly prone to periodic crashes which are building up to the big crash. Americans "feel" this the most because we are at the center of this process.
That's about the best I can do.
I enjoyed this bit.
If there's anything people can unite about, it's poison in our food - Nationwide March Against Monsanto, May 25th. http://youtu.be/LICQCxq1FqU
You mean if I give up my benefits that I payed for, then I can solve the problem of inchoate rage at the sobs (sorry old bankers) and sops (scheissy old politicos) who caused this huge economic mess and who are now taking all our gold and anything else that isn't tied down and putting it in some places that they say are china and india and blaming on it us? No thank you very much.
What about when it comes choate? is that the end game