I just had an amazing revelation.  It's true that I've been pessimistic for pretty much, well, forever.  But tonight I was sitting in front of my building, watching the MBTA free ride picking up people from the halfway house two buildings down, and watching empty buses driving back and forth over and over again.  I was just watching the waste and inefficiency, watching thousands and millions of dollars evaporate as quickly as they were created.  There was a PBS news release over the weekend claiming that the bailout so far has cost the American 12.8 trillion dollars.  But the value of the dollar has been relatively steady throughout the Obama presidency.  I couldn't figure out why inflation hasn't come yet.  The most logical two year predictions available was a deflationary collapse brought on by the popping derivatives bubble, with all currencies and commodities rapidly converging on zero.  But that wasn't really logical, when I thought about it.  I mean, cocoa prices are at an all time high, although not because of a shortage of cocoa beans.  Just another case of market manipulation by artificial trading, which is currently destroying numerous South American communities who would like nothing more than to grow and export cocoa beans at basically slave wages.  So the high prices don't really exist in real life, like the uncountable zeros in the bad-debt balance sheets of the Federal Reserve.  What I'm saying is this system, fractionally reserved and imaginary, could continue to infinity even in the absence of actual value and irrespective of goods and services.  In the deflationary event I just predicted (I don't like to predict things.  I knew Spain was going to win, I should have said something) America probably wouldn't be able to import or move foodstuffs for a while, but the inevitable demand would immediately drive prices on commodities to a higher level.  Not exactly a worldwide armageddon.  Then it hit me.  The human race is sustainable.  The means and goals of life must be drastically altered, sure, but we don't need population reductions.  You don't know how relieved that made me.  The ramifications were staggering, if you've been following my insane depression over the last few months.

So did Obama lie, or did he tell the public exactly what they needed to hear?  Maybe it was our fault.  We didn't really want change.  We fear chance.   There is no such thing as a perfect person.  I mean, I love Ron Paul, but the whole concept of property rights is grounded in the archaic notion of resource scarcity, which is no longer an issue.  Old beliefs should be eradicated, replaced and destroyed as they are proved unsustainable.  Maintaining a failed state will inevitably lead to decay, even according to the entropic laws of physics.  Money is no longer important to society.  Fuck asking what you can do for your country.  Your country no longer exists, like the bullets that killed Kennedy.  Democracy is a myth, propagated by those who profit from the system.  Two teams of puppets dancing for the same lobbyists.  America and therefore the world are both run by a few multinational corporations that now have economic assets to rival even first-world countries.  Instead, ask if we have the resources and technology to eliminate the need for government, police and warfare.  Instead of subsidizing farmers to not grow crops we could give that wheat to third world countries for free.  This solution would virtually end terrorism in impoverished countries like Yemen, which see America only as the source of deprivation and Viper Strike Missiles.  Instead of paying interest to bankers we could build wells in Palestine and make the the occupation unnecessary.  Instead of waging war we could eliminate medical patents and end disease, combat AIDs and eliminate malaria without the help of Bill Gates.  Remember, millions have died in the last decade, through sloth and arrogance and indifference.  That blood is on your hands, and none of the chaos and death was necessary.  Read the Top Secret America articles.  A new system is being created, over and above traditional government, superseding traditional sovereignty.  Our problems are technical, not political.  If we allow these institutions to evolve and perpetuate themselves, none of these problems will be solved.  So did Obama lie, or is hope fundamentally irrational?  You decide.  You spend over a billion dollars a day on interest on the national debt.  Over 500 billion a year on budgeted warfare.  Maybe a trillion off the books.  Wars and the corporations that profit from them are obsolete.  If we can break through certain barriers and structures, a free society, by which I mean free of competition, might be possible.  You must stop supporting the system.