Revolutionary rhetoric and Chumbawamba have proven impotent. Those who walk the hot coals of our Nintendo-lust are a growing mass. As our needs expand, so must expand the slave market. Huge swarms of humanity are falling into chaos, crime, and civil war, leaving blank and desperate social slates for the hungry transnationals. As Michael Moore says in Downsize This, no amount of profit is ever enough for them.
Any human being is a fair target for the slave-traders.
It will happen in North America, too, my friends . . . Right now, influential thinkers like University of Ottawa economics professor Michel Chossudovsky believe our economic system is near collapse. Well, here's what happens. First, the IMF tells us we must cut social spending by, say, two thirds. Gas, electricity, telephone, postage, food, transit prices all skyrocket.