We're all chattel slaves, now.

First they commodified our emotions.
Then they commodified our food.
Then they commodified our water.
Next, they'll commodify the air.

Corporations once existed for the public good
They were only granted their charters temporarily
Now they have equal power with the governments
Both mutually reliant on the other.
The corporation requires the state to exist.
But the state has put so much stock in the corporation, that it gives it free reign
First the corporation is equal to a person
Next, it becomes more free than a person
Free to restrict freedoms. Take over a nation's infrastructure.
The weak nations first, but as the powerful states become more dependent on the corporations than the corporations are on them. . .

It's the new fascism.

What once was free and a right
Is now a privilege only granted to the obedient.
Self-reliance and independence become impossible,
yet we are more distant from each other than we've ever been.

Big brother is there, but we didn't need the misguided revolution.
All we needed was passive acceptance.

You wanted to care, but you wanted a new T.V. more.

When we're in shackles, we'll have only ourselves to blame. There was no conspiracy. No master plan. It was us, supporting the system that now controls us.

The new fascism is a mark of failure for the human spirit. Only those who once lead us in reason can lead us to peace.