Slave in the Mirror

This morning, I checked out a small attached studio rental unit ($965 per month for an area equivalent to a large closet) in Hawai'i Kai. The owner, a 70-year-old Chinese realtor and property manager, resides in the main house. Although quite amicable, the owner was obviously preoccupied with money and wealth accumulation. The five-bedroom house was filled with useless crap. The studio unit was originally the patio of the house, if you can believe it. The owner once rented out the other bedrooms, but the latter are currently filled with useless crap. In order to qualify for the rental, I would have to provide all kinds of financial documents, including my credit score. In other words, I would have to pay for my own credit check. People who are preoccupied with money always count every penny. I could also sense that there was an underlying feeling of disdain about my choice to prematurely emancipate myself from wage slavery.

I would like to move to Hawai'i Kai, but I don't want to subsist in an environment of fake opulence, greed, and an insatiable desire to attain immortality through wealth accumulation. I doubt that I would be accepted for the rental anyway, mainly because the owner of the house has little respect for unemployed people. The lesson to be learned is that slavery of all types is embraced and self-policed by the slaves themselves. Institutional brainwashing is so entrenched in empire that there is no escape but to become a detested pariah. At this point in time, I may be forced to become homeless for the simple reason that I cannot produce any paycheck stubs.

Few people realize that the current air of "prosperity" is being fueled by massive global money "printing" or "liquidity injections." Money, backed by absolutely nothing, is being flooded into global economies. The "free" money, in turn, is being used to purchase accrued government and private debt. The purchased debt is rehypothecated endlessly to produce a new recursive chain of debt. Hyperinflation has not occurred because everyone, including the rank-and-file peons, are grabbing whatever money is coming there way. Much of the "free" money is flowing into the equities market, now tainted by enormous stock buybacks (i.e., a nefarious method to "goose the system"). The fact that the whole scheme is accelerating at a blinding pace suggests that any future correction will cause severe dislocations, even more wealth redistribution in favor of the "one percent," and dire impoverishment of the masses.

I have returned to drinking coffee regularly, although the main reason is the free Net "hotspot" at the coffee shop in town. I spend the precious time there composing the "blog." I also had time to contemplate the earlier meeting with the owner of the coffin-sized studio unit. As stated previously, the 70-year-old Chink moneygrubber has a five-bedroom house stuffed with useless crap that was financed by her various dubious enterprises. Where does the bitch think all that crap is going when she "kicks the bucket"? To "Heaven" with her? Most likely the surviving family members will have the stockpile of junk hauled off to the landfill or it will be donated to charity. Moneygrubbers are exactly like religious fanatics.

I really wish that the damned "system" would collapse already. There are too many people who need to be forcibly put in thir place, if you know what I mean. They walk around as if they have a stick up their asses, and their noses are held up high in snobbery. Systemic collapse would shove the stick all the way into the colon and wake the fools up from the stupor of self-importance. Maybe then, the long-awaited revolution will bring about real change.