wanna know what it's all about? no, you probably don't. not really. if the English live their lives in quiet desperation, Americans live their life in quiet debt. we love our stuff, don't we? don't you? you love your stuff. you know you do. your car. your phone(s?). your computer(s?). your software. your multimedia center. your game station(s?).
syllogism:
no one hurts you like the ones you love. if you love yourself, then you are your own worst enemy.
syllogism:
power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely. government (any government) is power, therefore. . . .
c'mon . . . you know the words.
and if that's true, then what does that say about God? He is the ultimate power after all . . . Isn't He?
speaking of which. . . . got a phone call from the Almighty just the other night. don't laugh. God is very active socially, especially with new methods of communication breaking out like rabid viruses every 2 seconds. Moses heard Him. Mohamed. Noah. Jesus. George W. Bush Jr. And me, of course.
God said that if I didn't buy a cell phone, a terrorist in the Middle East would starve to death. It was meant as a warning, or possibly a joke, but who can tell with the ole Supreme Deity?
He said it works like this:
we should be in a recession . . . Hell, a full out "Black Tuesday" scale depression, but we're not. wanna know why? would you be willing to give up your Xbox for the answer? or your new playstation or your fucking Wii? No, didn't think so.
to postpone a lifestyle-shaking recession you have to find money to pump into and through the banks. if the banks have money (from drugs, oil, gold, terrorism, diamonds, slavery, doesn't matter, money is green is green is green is green), then they have more to loan and interest rates stay low. see?
Iraqi oil is held in a "trust fund" for the Iraqi people in a bank in New York, of which the biggest borrower is . . . guess who? oh, c'mon, be a guessing kinda of person. fine. I'll tell you. the United States of America.
it's not money that makes the world go around, it's interest. how much did you pay for that cell phone? 100$??? did you pay your credit card in full? bet you didn't. which means you'll be paying triple the price by the time you're done.
see?
buy a 100$ item; pay interest; postpone payment; pay interest; postpone payment of principle; pay interest. that item will cost you 300$ by the time you're done. so fuck, why not just save up your money and go buy 300$ worth of shit? Why? because people are stupid. you are a person, aren't you? yeah, me too.
people under 30 don't care. people over 50 don't understand. people between only worry about their next bill and whether or not the new paste is toxic to their child.
read the damn
comic.