Locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness.

The government gives them the drugs, bills bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law,

and then wants us to sing God bless America.

No, no, no, not God bless America.

God damn America that's in the Bible for killing innocent people.

God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human.

God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and she is supreme.

So there's this book, abundance.

You hear about this?

This book that came out?

No, I haven't really heard about it.

I've caught a whiff since I've been back.

It's all the rage.

People are talking about it on the internet, on Twitter, and blue sky.

And it's kind of, you know, like a futurist type of thing.

Essentially, as I'll explain later, it's kind of like just a, this sounds like such a boring take to have, but it's really just a rehash of neoliberalism, but we'll get into that.

But it opens with like a vision of the future of the year 2050.

So like the opening of the book is like, this is what life is going to be like in 2050.

And this is what it says.

You wake up at 352 a.m., go to the bathroom mirror

and remove the tape from your mouth

that you were sleeping with.

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