(11-18-2018, 03:16 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: Service becomes menial chores for people barely paid enough to survive.
The people in these positions, with very limited opportunities to obtain advancement or escape their situations, were once referred to as Generation LIMBO. Capitalized because I was able to come up with what I felt was the perfect acronym. Lower Income Mostly Beyond Overhaul.
No matter how miserable one's conditions, one is often obliged to affect that broad, theatrical "Happy to Serve You!" smile. The economic elites expect the masses to accept their cruelty as necessity and even charity.
If religion was the opiate of the masses in Marxist literature, low-brow entertainment is the opiate of the masses in contemporary America.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.