Archives Bellaciao EN 1999-2016

Shouting at the Devil: “Fuck You, Capitalism!”

2007-11-05T12:41:30Z

By Jason Miller
“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you.
The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.” Tom (…)

- contributions / Edito, USA, Jason Miller

Two Legs Good, Four Legs Equal

2007-08-24T22:10:48Z

By Jason Miller
“The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and benificence of God manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.” Thomas Paine from The Age of Reason
Despite the trappings of a civilized culture and the incredibly persistent myth of our moral exceptionalism, we in the United States are collectively a group of (…)

- contributions / Edito, Environment, Jason Miller

Of Marx, Christ, and the Persecution of Radicals: How Will Humanity Survive the Capitalist Threat?

2007-08-24T21:33:51Z

By Jason Miller
A few days ago, one of my closest friends hit me with a heavily loaded question.
“Are you a Communist?” she queried.
To which I replied:
I do not belong nor militate in any formal communist party in the U.S. Nor do I belong to any other political entity or party. Furthermore, I do not subscribe to a specific doctrine, ideology, or dogma. My allegiance is to my core principles and values, which are premised on honesty, justice, humanity, responsibility, critical (…)

- contributions / Movement, USA, Jason Miller

Slaves to Christ and Compassion Unite: Free Markets Must Prevail

2007-07-16T22:18:21Z

By Jason Miller
[Warning: Satire Ahead]
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
–John Maynard Keynes
If you're nodding your head in agreement with Keynes and expecting validation of your opinion as you read this piece, you're in for a rude awakening.
Forget the humanitarian, bleeding heart nonsense. Let's reflect on the words of Thomas Sowell instead:
“Despite a voluminous and (…)

- contributions / Religions-Beliefs, USA, Jason Miller

Overgrown Kids, Unshackled Ids, and the Death of the Superego

2007-07-10T06:42:21Z

by Jason Miller
"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them." Sigmund Freud
Frightening as it may be, the Earth's fate rests in the hands of children. With incredibly formidable military firepower at its disposal, the United States could catalyze Armageddon at any time. And while they may be adults chronologically, our sociopolitical structure is dominated by emotional infants.
Nietzsche once pronounced God dead. In the (…)

- contributions / Movement, Health, Social, USA, Jason Miller

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Personal Gratification

2007-07-09T17:49:11Z

“Here There Be Monsters”
Essay by Jason Miller
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
While it certainly was not his intent, Adams' assertion serves to remind us of a truth revealed by vast oceans of tears, torrential rivers of blood, and formidable piles of human remains. Leaving murder, mayhem, and misery in its wake, America does “go abroad,” but not, as Adams noted, “in search of monsters to destroy.” What Adams failed to perceive, despite living in the (…)

- contributions / Movement, USA, Jason Miller

Annals of Mendacious Punditry: When the Shill Enables the Kill

2007-06-06T14:22:18Z

by Jason Miller
Jonah Goldberg is the living, breathing embodiment of virtually all that is pernicious in the malignant socioeconomic and political structures collectively known as the American Empire. Yet tragically, this scheming sycophant to the cynical, privileged criminals of the US plutocracy reaches countless millions through myriad corporate media conduits as he weaves his sophistic arguments supporting nearly every morally repulsive aspect of United States foreign policy.
Rising (…)

- contributions / Newspapers-mags, Wars and conflicts, International, USA, Jason Miller

ANNALS OF MENDACIOUS PUNDITRY: PIN-STRIPED PERFIDY

2007-05-24T21:52:40Z

By Jason Miller
5/21/07
Larry Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic and investment research firm. Kudlow is host of CNBC's “Kudlow & Company” which airs weeknights at 5 p.m. He is the host of “The Larry Kudlow Show” on WABC Radio on Saturdays 10:00am. Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist and also hosts his own blog. He is a contributing editor of National Review magazine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Review Online. He is the author of (…)

- contributions / Trade-Exchange Rates, USA, Jason Miller

Rover is not on the menu, Wilbur is, and Mahmoud just starved to death: "Another bacon burger, anyone?" (video)

2007-03-27T00:44:40Z

by Jason Miller
“If my competitor were drowning, I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.” Ray Kroc
“….a funny, jowly, canny, barbarous guy who lives in a multimillion-dollar condo on Park Avenue in Manhattan and conveys himself about the planet in a corporate jet and a private yacht. At sixty-seven, he is unrepentant in the face of criticism. He describes himself as a "tough man in a tough business"….."The animal-rights people," he once said, "want to impose a vegetarian's (…)

- contributions / Edito, Health, Environment, Jason Miller

Mike Palecek interviewed by Jason Miller

2007-03-17T17:44:31Z

by Jason Miller
“I just look around and see people mowing their lawns on the same day we start to bomb Iraq and it drives me wild.” Mike Palecek
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed three of Mike Palecek's novels, I felt particularly fortunate that he agreed to engage in a cyber-interview with me. His irreverent satirization of the myriad of ills plaguing the United States is unparalleled amongst current authors of sociopolitical fiction. Palecek may hyperbolize, but his fertile (…)

- contributions / Parties, USA, Jason Miller