The Corporate Revolution 2020
My thoughtless youth was wing’d with vain desires,
My manhood, long mislead by wandering fires,
Follow’d false lights; and when their glimpse was gone,
My pride struck out new sparkles of her own.
In Lusts we wallow, and with Pride we swell,
And Injuries, with Injuries repell;
Prompt and Revenge, not daring to forgive,
Our lives unteach the Doctrine we believe…
-John Dryden Hind and the Panther (1687), the prelude of the old, false path.
Anna was my wife’s Chilean and Finnish hairdresser. My wife is Ecuadorean. In Los Angeles, South Americans stick together. About 5-years ago, Anna was abruptly fired from Super Cuts. Anna was struggling financially and leaving an abusive husband
One day, Anna called me distraught and out of money to pay her rent. She wanted to know if she had an employment lawsuit against Super Cuts. Like a good lawyer, I developed the facts. Anna’s insubordination to Super Cuts corporate policy was well documented. Super Cuts had written Anna up several times about the specific way she cut hair.
Anna cut hair with her scissor blades pointing up. The same exact way she had cut hair for almost 20 years. Super Cuts’ employee handbook requires all stylists shall cut hair with their scissor blades pointing down at all times.
No matter how hard Anna tried, she could not adjust to cut with the blades pointed down. Super Cuts management informed Anna that there were no exceptions to the rules and terminated the struggling Chilean.
Anna did not have a lawsuit. The competing interest of corporate liability from lawsuits outweighed Anna’s discretion to cut hair to the best of her ability. This same corporate mentality/senility controls what is trending in our lives. It helps to determine what we talk about. The individualism which separates America from the rest of the world is dying because of it.
Being fired from Super Cuts was the best thing that ever happened to Anna. She obtained a Finnish passport and the ability to permanently live in the EU. Anna relocated from Long Beach, California to Benidorm, Spain. Benidorm is the British Redneck Rivera, where all the boozy Brits holiday.
Not being dependent on a corporation is liberating. One minute you’re frustrated grinding out corporate profits. The next, you are partying into the wee hours of the night singing “Sweet Caroline” with the boys at the pub. Before you know it, you are whisked away in love with a wealthy English gentleman, snuggled by the fire, at his countryside estate, playing rummy, and sipping an 18-year Scotch.
The search for happiness is really the same emotional internal struggle generation after generation. Control over our emotions is the surest way to happiness. A balance of ethos (ethics), pathos (passion), and logos (logic) has always been the historic prescription. Will Durant in The Pleasures of Philosophy (1953) explains the origins of our emotions.
“Nearly all the races of men once lived by pursuing beasts, killing them, cutting them up-usually on the spot-and eating them, often in the raw, and always to the cubic capacity of the hunter’s stomach.”
“Primitive man ate like the modern dog, because he did not know when his next meal would come; insecurity is the mother of greed, as cruelty is the child of fear…How much of our contemporary cruelty and greed, our surviving violence, occasional relish for war, goes back to the hunting stage?”
“Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, as hatred becomes respectable in war. Brutality and greed were once necessary in the struggle for existence, and are now ridicules atavism; man’s sins are not the result of his fall; they are relics of his rise.”
“We do not know when man passed from hunting to tillage, but we may be sure that the great transition created a demand for new virtues; and that many old virtues became vices in the settled and quiet routine of the farm. Industrious was now more vital than bravery, thrift more desirable than violence, peace more profitable than war. “
“Then suddenly factories appeared; men and woman and children began to leave home and family, authority, and unity, to work as individuals, individually paid...instead of sowing seeds and reaping harvests in the fields, men fought a life-and-death struggle, in dark filthy shops…”
We have moved from hunter to tillage to industrial to the information age. From filthy shops to the artificial internet, the life-and-death struggle for happiness continues within us all in 2022. Plato felt that spiritual development occurred best when we stick to the natural things in life. The ancient Greek wisdom was to forsake the artificial and affected in favor of the natural.
In the Oversoul, Emerson wrote that we pretty much spend our lives jumping from emotion to emotion and are never conscience of our own existence. The beginning of Emerson’s Oversoul is the blueprint to discovering your own soul.
“There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences…Why do men feel that the natural history of man has never been written, but he is always leaving behind what you have said of him, and it becomes old, and books and metaphysics worthless? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the magazine and chambers of the soul… Man is a source whose stream is hidden. Our being in descending into us from we know not whence.”
Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Many young men die at age 25, but are not buried until they’re 75.” Too many of us never live a day in our lives. We only ferment and wallow in our emotions. “The difference between a friendship of men and a friendship of pigs.”
To expand on that idea, I must enlist the help of Brad Pitt. In the movie, Fury before the American tank crew stands up to an entire battalion of Nazi’s and faces certain death, Pitt quotes the bible.
“If a man loves the world, the love of the father's not in him. For all that's in the world, lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life it's not of the father. It's of the world. The world and its desires pass away. But he who does God's will is gonna live forever. Forever.”
We evolve over time but our nature and emotions remain the same. When I hear people say that we are more enlightened now or smarter, I take offense. We are altered by our earthly desires, we lust about, and use pride as our road map. That has never and will never change.
According to Will Durant, our vices and virtues change depending on the times. What was once a virtue is now a vice. The virtues of 2022 were vices not even a generation ago. The Information Age virtues are open drug use, open borders, abortion, Communism, LBGQT pride month, defunding the police, and corporate pride.
Our 2022 virtues are now sponsored by billion-dollar global corporations like Pfizer, Facebook, the NBA, NFL, Disney, Amazon, and Starbucks. Corporations and CEOs are the current revolutionaries most responsible for the rebranding of our vices and virtues.
Pleasures, happiness, and distracting propaganda are spoon-fed to us. Our emotions and sediments are harvested to make the most bucks by jerkoffs like Mark Zuckerberg. To be fair to Zuck, he satisfies our earthly desires and panders to our weakness for the artificial.
In Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter really broke it down. “First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?”
How can we understand the corporate revolutionary at its core? Marcus Aurelius wrote that sex was only two membranes rubbing against each other and a mucus comes out. If you just looked at sex for what it was at its nature, you could control your emotions and sexual urges.
If you watched a porno between the logos of Facebook and Starbucks or its CEOs for that matter, you would see two consistent membranes rubbing against each other:
1. Every stroke Facebook and Starbucks takes is to increase profits;
2. Every deep thrust Facebook and Starbucks makes is to shield themselves from civil liability and scrutiny online.
The nature of the giant corporation is always the same: profits, avoiding lawsuits, and now telling us how to feel.
As a result, we must endure our haircuts with scissor blades pointed down. See the humiliated artist cast aside for disobedience. See people canceled like Dave Chappell for staying true to their art.
We all have been wronged by some corporate stoolie. Some corporate goon, who would throw his own brother under the bus. A fake and cruel person. One that lives to work and not to live.
These cruel corporate hipsters are the same ones that stood up for equality in 2020. It was a Corporate Revolution in 2020. It was a year about corporate interest staking their claim in Uncle Joe’s Great Reset.
The Corporate Revolution 2020
“The King controls the people and the interest control the King.”
Generally, the people that broadcast their virtues are the ones the most morally compromised. They need validation to distract from their endless pursuit of ego, power, and earthly desires. Take Harvey Weinstein for example, he was glad-handing Hillary Clinton to distract the world from his sexual perversions and power thirst. As the age-old saying in Don Quixote goes, “Behind the cross lurks the devil.”
Only eighteen years ago, social justice warriors like Alec Baldwin stood against corporations. In the 2004 classic, Team America World Police, Alec Baldwin is touted as the best actor in the world. In the end, Baldwin’s acting powers fail to defend Kim Jong Il. The world realizes it needs “dicks” like Team America to keep communist “assholes” in check. Once the world turns on Alec Baldwin, he bumbles to his fallback position, “corporations” and “global warming.” The irony is that it doesn’t get more “corporation-y” than Alec Baldwin. Baldwin mid as well have an Illuminati NBC coat of arms tattooed on his trigger finger.
Somehow in 2022, the greedy corporation is no longer the enemy, but the revolutionary hero. Instead of meeting in coffee houses, the modern revolutionary meets in the penthouse. The billionaire corporate demagogues have all come out of the closet in their bid to rid the world of racists. Inclusion is their new creed.
In 2020, the corporations stood with the Floyd looters. Facebook censored and suppressed the opposition regarding the dangers of the COVID vaccine and Joseph R. Biden’s son’s laptop. The latest report is that Facebook even helped the government spy on Americans.
At Starbucks, the baristas were allowed to wear BLM and inclusion pins. The NBA encouraged players to kneel for the American Anthem. NBA Commissioner (Communist) Adam Silver promoted a Marxist group on the floor of the NBA finals.
Aunt Jemima maple syrup changed its name because it was deemed racist. HBO stopped streaming the American classic movie Gone with the Wind for the same reason. The Washington Redskins changed their name. Even M&M’s candy created gay candy. It has been one giant corporate circle jerk.
Who benefits from all of this mumbo jumbo? The simple answer is the corporations and the vanity of their users. At the end of the day, it is corporate users’ desire for instant gratification. To hide their shortcomings and emotional immaturity from the world that fuels the corporate revolution.
It used to be a liberal virtue to stand up against corporate interest. That liberal punk rock virtue against corporations has changed into a vice. In 2022, if you don’t support Micky Mouse then you are a fascist. If you get annoyed at the LBGQT Selection Menu that comes before Amazon Originals then you are the problem standing in the way of progress. If you think the new Lord of the Rings sucks then you suck. Those are the sediments of many Americans. Until we unravel why we feel that way, we cannot collectively heal as a nation.
In March 2020, the corporate revolutionaries were the first to lock their doors. The NBA suspended all games long before the COVID lockdown on March 17, 2022. Like dominos corporate partners compelled us to get jabbed, wear a mask, and violate our private health information. You had to show proof of vaccination to do just about anything in any corporate setting. It was not because corporations cared about COVID, they just wanted to appear to care and not get sued.
Corporate morals, new virtues, and sexual liberation were blasted out of the boardrooms. Twitter statements, Facebook posts, inclusion categories on Netflix, and corporate sponsorships for protesters spouted out.
2020 was a revolution that had bottle service, a VIP area, and a charging station for our mobile devices. It was Floyd, COVID deniers, and Trump that was the spark of the corporate revolution. The corporations fed into vain Americans’ thirst to show their new virtues. This harvesting of vanity allowed corporate beacons like George Gascon and Joseph R. Biden into power.
Just like in the Russian Revolution, the Marxists let the criminals back on the streets to terrorize our communities. The seeds of destruction were planted to end law enforcement in America as we know it. The COVID crime wave is now in full swing.
To those who agree with Facebook censorship, remember corporate altruism and government altruism do not exist. A corporation only acts selfishly and in its own interest. It is all about image and profits. The two membranes rubbing against each other and the profits spewing out.
When I think of revolutionaries, I think of Lenin, Trotsky, Lazos Kussoth, Vaclav Havel, and Viktor Orban. Men of action meeting in coffee houses, hiding from secret police, and living incognito. Men with a single focus and a hunger for vengeance and justice. People that had been truly wronged by oppressive governments.
The modern corporate revolutionary is an Ivy League shithead that summers in Hamptons and lives in the cloud. They care nothing about the struggle of the working class and only about corporate profits and projections. The homeless, open borders, immigration, and open drug use of fentanyl are the new working class carrying the corporate revolution. Their minions have dyed hair and are the proud hawks of social media.
After the events of March 2020, I felt compelled to document billion-dollar corporations as revolutionaries. The idea may not be so absurd. The actions of corporations in 2020 are revolutionary in nature.
Most of what is about to follow is extracted and regurgitated from Melvin J. Lasky book of lectures Utopia and Revolution published in 1976. The book documents man’s “utopian longing and systematic attempt to realize the dream of a good society by political action and violent upheaval.” To dogma, that is “revolutionary commitment to a dogmatic faith in violence and total control.” This is the age-old struggle that plays out in every generation.
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
We are not immune to mankind’s struggle for utopia and revolution. We must acknowledge that our generation is in the middle of it and collectively face it. Explore and mature our emotions so that people like Mark Zuckerberg cannot exploit our human weaknesses.
Napoleon was the hero of the French Revolution. ‘General Rule’ was that: “No social revolution without terror. Every revolution is, by its nature, a revolt that success and the passage of time legitimize but in which terror is one of the inevitable phases. “Vanity” said Napoleon, “made the Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.”
Make no mistake 2020 was a revolution. It was not oppressed students but vain seekers that left COVID lockdowns to protest. The people did not naturally rise up like in the French, Hungarian, Velvet, and other Revolutions. The vain seekers called for the destruction of American institutions. The terror created by the corporate revolution was manufactured on CNN and other corporate sponsors.
In the French Revolution, Napoleon rose to power. In the Hungarian Revolution in the 1980’s Viktor Orban went from poet to prime minister. In Prague at the same time, it was the poet-philosopher Haval that went from the coffee house to President.
What is truly remarkable in the context of history is that the 2020 Corporate Revolution failed to create one organic leader. America didn’t even get a Greta for our troubles in 2020. No spiritual leaders like Martin Luther King led the protest. Not one voice from 2020 has emerged to lead us into a world of more joy and bliss. Only viral talking heads funded by corporate money and blasted-out corporate legacy media outlets remain. The only relics of Floyd are Marxist groups’ audits and lawsuits.
The corporations herded the protestors’ vanity and manufactured terror. The terror and violence that are now chipping away at American institutions only need time now to do their job. The clock is ticking as the new normal melts in and the next crisis looms.
In all revolutions, the tides change. William Butler Yeats poem highlights the idea.
“Hurrah for revolution! Let the cannon shoot,
The beggar upon horseback lashes the beggar on foot
Hurrah for revolution! Cannon once again,
The beggars have changed place but the lash goes on.”
Professor Lowith said that:
“The Communist creed, though a pseudo-morphosis of Jewish-Christian messianism, lacks the fundamentals of it: the free acceptance of humiliation and of redemptive suffering as the condition of triumph. The proletarian Communist wants the crown without the cross, he wants to triumph by earthly happiness…”
America once again faces down the gun of these directly opposed ideals of human nature. Uncle Joe vs. Uncle Sam. Many are too wrapped up in social media and Instacart accounts to notice or care about the corporate battle being fought for the soul of America.
Americans would do well to study the cruelness of the corporate communist mindset before they are purged themselves.
“This is always true of those men who have surrendered themselves to an overruling purpose. It does not so much impel them from without, nor ever operate as a motive power within, but grows in-corporate with all that they think and feel, and finally converts them into little else save that one principle…They have no heart, no sympathy, no reason, no conscience. They will keep no friend, unless he make himself the mirror of their purpose; they will smite and slay you, and trample your dead corpse under foot, all the more readily, if you take the first step with them, and cannot take that second, and the third, and every other step of their terribly straight path.”
In a Boston accent like Martin Sheen in the movie Departed:
Martin: “WHO SAID THAT?”
Leo: “Hawthorne.”
Mark: {Fart noise} “What’s a matter, you don’t know Shakespeare?”
Seriously, everyone knows someone described by Hawthorne. They are maybe the Regional Manager of Applebee’s in Flint, Michigan, the head of HR at the Port of Long Beach, or Enterprise Rental Car’s General Manager in Omaha, Nebraska. They are buried into America like ticks. Even though they are cool and support BLM on the back of their 2005 Prius, they still have no reason, no sympathy, and no heart when it comes to scissors down.
We must tactfully battle the corporation. I have applied Professor Lansky’s “links, of the great chain of human hope.”
1. Crisis. The intolerability of the miseries of the present time of suffering, tribulation, humiliation, and woe.
2. Vengeance. The inspired prospect of vindication and flaming deliverance from the currently afflicted age.
3. Catastrophe. The imminence of the messianic day of universal terror and destruction when the righteous cause of martyrs will be redeemed.
4. Promise. The ultimate inevitability of a fairer world of enduring peace and justice, brotherhood and bliss, joy and virtue.
5. Climax. A supreme denouncement of history which follows the contest between light and darkness, ending the disastrous ruin of evil, wicked oppression, and all worlding abominations.
6. Down. The grand inauguration of a new golden Age, a brighter earthly future, an absolute glory.
The corporations that seek to implement a new world order for the Great Reset have all made their vows. Otherwise, what would compel their actions in 2020? The Revolutionary Vow: Reformaito Sigismudi in the year 1438.
1. The Final Crisis is Now. Obedience is dead. Justice is grievously abused. Nothing stands in its proper order…But we ought to realize: matters cannot continue like this…Our society has become sick and feeable…Things have come to their final pass. There must be a new order.
2. A Time for Anger. A reformation cannot succeed in this empire unless it is imposed by force and with the pain of punishment…An avenging judge is approaching, and he will come among us and judge us, and his judgments will be executed in the spirit of anger…Weeds must be rooted out if fruits are to grow in the garden
3. The Move of the Just…justice and goodness attract few followers, but in the end they overcome all adversity…When you see the approach of just ones, enlist in their ranks, join them, and help destroy all those inequities which now cause the whole world to plunge into despair…be the vanguard of the campaign.
4. The Great Refusal. Refuse to bow to their threats, reject their claims to be your judges, and they will become powerless. And the poor, the common folk, must show faith… they will surely overcome…You will see: one will arise who will establish the better order by means of force. Join him, one and all…
5. The Prophecy. ‘In the year 1439, there will be arise a small consecrated man who will govern and punish the people. And he will rule from sea to sea. His feet shall suppress sin. And that are harmful shall be destroyed and burned. All people will be joyous. Justice will rise again!
Apply the six chains of human hope and revolutionary vow to the 2020 Corporate Revolution. Reach your own conclusions. Apply this same road map to your own inner emotional struggles. Search the crossroads of your life for examples of your own utopian longings in your life and death struggle for happiness.
As the corporate revolution rages on, I want to see Uncle Sam kick Uncle Joe’s ass again. Like Yeats’ poem, the time for the corporations to be“lashed back” is now. “Hurray for Revolution!”
To take us out, I turn to the Subhumans and their punk rock ripper “Apathy.”
Drink, Sex, Cigarettes
Ford Cortina household pets
Bombs? War? Famine? Death?
An apathetic public couldn t care lessThe Public watches ITV (Instagram Feeds)
Reads The Sun drinks cups of tea
Two-star family stay content
Their lives controlled by parliament
Well daddy's lost his job again
Because he never had no brain
He only lives to watch TV
His life controlled by apathyThe Russians seem so far away
The government seems to be OK
The papers never mention war
'cause the people that they cater for have got-The things that you never knew were there
Or was it that you didn't care
The biggest problem face to face
An apathetic human race
Stay Tuned,
Roland Tomasi