Wholly Sanctimony

(Composed on Monday October 13, 2014. Public library closed for Thanksgiving.) It's Canadian Thanksgiving again, the day we're supposed to count our blessings and be grateful. I can think of no other way to do this right now than to be grateful for cigarettes and for the bromide in my pesticide, which I expect has subtracted years from my life in this corrupt, doomed fool's paradise. Hypocrisy is yet another moral fault in capitalism, to add to the growing list I've been compiling in this blog. A hypocrite is one who fails to abide by the same standards one applies to others. If banks and corporations think that bank robbers should be severely punished, why do corporate sponsors excuse themselves for aiding and abetting the theft of my property? Indeed, why would they have us believe they were doing the world a favor by presenting actively offending criminals as trustworthy idols on TV? If industrialists think it's acceptable to have laborers working a hundred hours a week in Bangladesh sweatshops for puny wages that offer no advancement from a straw hut with a dirt floor, why do industrialists live in hundred-room mansions? And how do they find the time and resources to throw those extravagant soirees for themselves and their friends? If tycoons want to live in a country with a high standard of living, why would one of them be a proponent of social Darwinism, which would send us back to the unregulated Industrial Revolution so sharply criticized by Charles Dickens in books like Oliver Twist? Or do they want nineteenth century England to be the new highest living standard for the global economy? Would they find the pervasive stench of burning sulfur an improvement, as well? If corporations want us to love them, as is evident in their commercials, why do they deceive us with manipulative broadcasting, exploit our creativity, and drain our labor power? Is that any way to treat someone you love? Capitalist hypocrisy confronts me so often and so brazenly that I must take corporate claims of adherence to Christian values as a grotesque insult to my intelligence. And the way our society not only tolerates but rewards this kind of misbehavior leaves me little hope for our descendants.
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