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subtle scare tactic of western capitalism, the slip of paper in the mail, the email directed at you & you alone, the collection agency phone call--- it all comes down to frightening & keeping one at bay, drilling it into your head that debt is the path you’ve chosen & that it has all been your fault that you were born where you were born & that you were raised how you were raised, so now, the hope is that with ensuing debt, you’ll buckle down & shut the **** up, so that one more mouth will be silent & one more bank account will be yearning for a chance to beg beg beg for a way out of financial catastrophe, as if a painful physical death was somehow preferable--- this taunting way of threatening people into submission does little to provide a calm bit of sanity for the whole, rather it leaves the suffering to wonder, just what exactly is keeping them from walking into said collection agency, said bill collector’s, said insurance company, etc. & putting a gun to the head of anyone & everyone in charge? hmmm. better hope the people keep on blaming the game & not the players there, bucko.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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