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Elmer in Dairyland
By Charles M. Young
Between college and graduate school, I worked for a year in a factory in Verona, Wisconsin, which is a few miles and a paradigm shift outside of Madison. It wasn’t the worst place to work. We had a union. We had benefits. We chopped, folded and riveted large sheets of metal and turned them into the air diffusers that you can see in the ceilings of theaters and other large buildings.
I did the night shift for a while with a guy named Elmer. In his fifties, Elmer had been a farmer and hunter for most of his life, and in 1974 was operating a giant sheet metal sheer. Elmer would cut it, and I would stack it. After our orders were filled, we’d sit around and get drunk, because there wasn’t any supervision at night. Sometimes we got drunk before the orders were filled, and we were both lucky to escape the sheer with our fingers still attached to our hands.
As we drank peppermint schnapps at 4 a.m., I listened to Elmer’s stories about his life with great interest. Most of my friends in Madison had parents who worked for the government or the university. Elmer seemed to be as smart as any of them, but with a life experience that put him on another planet.
It was obvious that Elmer hated his job. He wanted to be outside, trapping muskrats and selling their pelts. I hated the job too, and ruminated about why anyone would think that hard work was a virtue. What was worse--having a job, or not having a job? If you worked eight hours a day and then got drunk, or watched television, to forget about the grinding assembly line, what kind of a life was that? What about raising your kids? Taking part in your community? Culture? Why not organize labor in such a way that that everyone had a useful job for four hours, and then could pursue their own happiness? Was there any lack of things that needed to be done? Was there any lack of people who wanted to make contribution in some way? What was the point of overworking some while underworking others?
I thought of Elmer as a friend. That he wasn’t became evident one night when Elmer and I got drunker than usual, and he accused me of looking down on him. “I hate college boys,” he snarled. He hated the entire University of Wisconsin...
For the rest of this article by CHARLES M. YOUNG in ThisCantBeHappening!, the new independent two-time Project Censored Award-winning online alternative newspaper, please go to: www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1199
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First question: To the clueless liberals is to ask WHY THEY THINK LIBERALISM IS AN OPEN SOCIAL IDEOLOGY, WHEN IT CLEARLY EMBRACES CLASS EXCLUSION, CLASS PRIVILEGE, AND FASCISM, reflecting the historical fact that Liberalism was born as a class ideology, betraying the social Enlightenment, social patriotism. Social thinkers and their ideas were co opted, inverted by class whores like Clinton, Obama, all equal opportunity Fascists, reflecting the generic degenerating class principle which holds true for ALL CLASS PARTIES, whose false centers shifts, devolves into creeping Fascism, to Defend Fascist Capitalism.
Second question: Since the central failure of the whole of class history is the false embrace of the Orwellian, totalitarian class principle and its class hierarchies, linked to the generic Patriarchal class mechanism, WHY DOES ANYONE EMBRACE CLASS PARTIES AT ALL, EXPECTING SOCIAL OUTCOMES, SOCIAL POWER, when the central function of all class hierarchies is to convert, INVERT, CO OPT, CORRUPT NEGATE SOCIAL POWER AND SOCIAL DEMANDS, ALL SOCIAL BETRAYALS, FOR CLASS POWER, FOR PARASITICAL RULING CLASSES.
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