Back to Feudalism?

“They were not reduced to slaves right away because we did not want them to see the effects of change so quickly. They were desensitized and kept in seclusion much as older people do when they don’t want to be in contact with rowdy youngsters.”

Supposing that statement were true and you could see changes occurring in the fabric of your society so that the middle was completely reabsorbed and there was only the poor and the rich. I hate to think where I would be destined knowing that the arts is at the bottom of the heap as far as the Harper government is concerned. So I would be reduced to some sort of continued meager existence with a promise to live much better but nothing in the way of being able to jump up the social latter.

Worse so for the homeless which will be in an increased number on Montreal streets this summer, with already deteriorated health services afflicting us and million dollar projects going for the few like a new telecommunications building. That building is supposed to save millions but how can that be in a city where major building projects like the mega hospital are only delayed and they end up costing the taxpayer millions more?

Supposing the future were accelerated so that we could see that gradual thinning out of the middle class at a much quicker rate. Perhaps then people would really get after their politicians who continue to ride the wave of popularity, who continue to make and break promises. After all even at the end of last year there was no admission of a recession in the wings and one economic adviser referred to it as too much of an extreme word.

People would keep their rights but then I think more and more will see that some are  more equal than others. just as Orwell stated in his “Animal Farm”. Some top executives are getting away with million dollar care packages  after operating failing businesses ( at the tax payer’s expense ) and don’t have to feel the pinch . They know that because they are either sitting in some ivory tower somewhere or are just to distant from the poor bloke who was coerced into buying property which would have no value.

Those properties were then seized by the lending institution from owners who could not afford their mortgages and the banks could not cover the expenses. Thank goodness I live in this country where there were no bank bailouts. But that is not the final solution as Harper might think as he went of to Europe with the notion of referring to our “superior banking” system. He did nothing to set it up by the way.

No, we won’t go the way of feudalism, there are too many rights in the way, but civilization is only paper thin. There are arrogant sorts who wouldn’t mind getting rid of the whole post industrialist social pyramid for one looking like an hourglass. There would be no middle class, just a small ruling board and endless hoards of poor wandering the streets looking for scraps of food and raiding garbage dumps.  Montreal already is showing itself prepared for that futuristic outlook from a  report I heard on the piling of garbage against a wall at the corner of Coutrai and Victoria.

Since the value of the rusting and rotting commodities found in garbage heaps throughout the city don’t measure up to the 12 million raked in last year; maybe 7 million will be made this year. Even junk dealers are leery of picking into the dirt.

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