Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Flipping Burgers in the Porn Industry

I am astonished by what I have recently discovered about that porn industry. I had always assumed that gay porn stars, as one example, were probably making between 25,000 and 50,000 a picture, with perhaps the odd porn star bringing in 100 grand a picture. If someone would have asked me, 'what do you think they earn,' that would have been my best guess. Now I have discovered that they are working for a couple of grand. Yes, our kids are going out and applying for jobs in that porn industry in the same way they would apply for a job flipping burgers and asking people 'would you like fries with that, sir?' Granted, they are getting two or three months of burger money in a couple of hours on some afternoon, and maybe that seems like a good deal, but when you average it all over time, it is burger money. Yes, even straight boys are appearing on film to pretend to do the fag thing, and it is not even required that they be bribed with 25, 50, or 100 grand. They do it for peanuts. That amazes me, and I just cannot get the thought out of my mind. It haunts me. The porn industry is enormous. It is now the biggest segment of the entertainment industry, dwarfing conventional movies, television and cable channels, and the sports industry. It brings in about 60 billion dollars a year, and if you think in terms of decades, it is a trillion dollar industry. It is obviously enormously profitable, and I would like to be even more surprised by finding out what the profit margin is in this particular capitalist enterprise, but I am quite sure given the low costs involved in producing this highly profitable product, that we would discover an enormously huge profit margin, unlike that of any other industry on this planet. Typically profit margins might measure in the low double digits, and a twenty five percent return would be considered exceptional, and therefore when your rate of return in measured in four figures I am sure, you know, thousands of percent, that is quite good, at least from the point of view of the capitalist 'entrepreneurs' who are obviously making tens of billions of dollars in profit on what must be a highly profitable 'investment' of peanuts, since peanuts is all that is required to make porn these days. It is the most excessive example of naked greed and exploitation of one human being by another that I can think of, and truly this porn industry represents what capitalism would like to be in every industry if only that was possible in every industry, instead of just being possible in that porno industry.


This upsets me because it indicates that our kids have no solidarity and no group consciousness, and they just glumly accept the fact that the world is divided between wealthy exploiters and the cheap exploited and the idea that someone can make two or three months of burger money in an afternoon thus seems like a good idea to our kids, a real great deal. They are like little sheep without a shepherd, and that disturbs me, and it also disturbs me that they just glumly accept whatever that exploitative capitalist system dishes out, and even the grossest and most excessive examples of domination and greed does not stir up any sort of opposition within them, because they have been abandoned by every shepherd they have ever known, and everyone keeps telling them that this is just the way things are. Accept it.


This gloomy acceptance of any kind of exploitation and greed is very disturbing to me, for it suggests that the world is going to be flushed down the shitter and that no hope exists for the future, and that poverty and disease and misery will be the lot of humanity, and that such things as one billion downtrodden people will continue to do without something as simple as a square meal a day for no other reason than that they lack a dollar bill in their pockets and are the brutally oppressed poor of humanity. The food exists, but then so does that capitalist system, and that grossly oppressive system dictates that the weak and the helpless must be purged from the system so that the strong may survive. Apparently everyone just accepts that idea, or they are brainwashed and think that poverty is the result of some tragic automobile accident, a thing out of our control and the result of some natural force, perhaps like an unpredictable and uncontrollable tornado or hurricane.


When I take it all in the fact that our kids will allow themselves to be greedily exploited in exchange for a few months of burger money all at once, and the fact that they think that this is about as good as a deal gets on this planet, leaves me feeling very depressed since it is a signal indicator of just how dismal the prospects for the planet are at the present time, and unless something changes, this present generation holds out little hope for the future. They are little sheep with no shepherd, and the shepherds they did have were nothing but bullies, rams with large horns who shove them out of the way with their horns, and then stick their hooves into the pools of water to stir up mud and muddy the waters. At the present time it would appear that all this constant bullying and this persistent oppression which is required if robber barons are to remain in power and ward off the threat posed by being surrounded by the incipient revolution caused by their evil deeds, all this has been successful and you can see how successful it is just by looking at that porn industry and seeing legions of our kids trekking off to work to get that great deal of two or three months of burger money in one afternoon, while at the same time thinking that was a good deal, or perhaps thinking it was a shitty deal but given how no one can do a damn thing about it, they accept such a shitty deal.


There is, however, something positive that I can see when I consider this strange looking picture, and that is that if a person was to look back even one generation, it is apparent that things were not like this. What this tells me is that sea change has just occurred in our society, and we now live in a post-Christian culture, or perhaps better said a post-religious culture, since every religion on the planet is losing the young generation and going into ruinous collapse at the same time. The fact that our kids think of a porn job the same way they think of a job flipping burgers is proof positive of this monumental change underway in human society, and it also explains the hysterics characteristic of religion today, as religion of every brand and sort frantically looks for someway to 'win the current generation.' Yes, it is payback time for religion, and now the buzzards are coming home to roost in that place, and all the unrighteousness and injustice of which religion was a partner in the past have completely discredited religion, for you cannot have nakedly hypocritical religion and a world full of ruthless oppression at the same time, for the blood of the martyrs does not water the soil for religion, bur what actually happens is that when a god's people get barbecued by a weirdo, such as happened to Israel, you will find no church left in a place like Europe. Hitler was correct when he predicted that it would take two or three generations to destroy the church and get rid of the damn thing. We should give credit where credit is due and call Hitler a type of prophet, since apparently Hitler was a lot smarter than some dogma spouting priest or some doctrine quoting preacher, for it was Hitler who was the prophet in this place while they were not.


The fact that the present generation has completely and totally rejected religion, leaving it to die by the side of the road, holds out great promise for the future of a suffering humanity, for it was religion that was responsible for the ruination of this planet. Religion accomplished this brainwashing by making people so damned stupid that they always thought the problems of the world were caused by 'sinful sinners' and that therefore the way to save the world was to 'morally reform' a 'sinner' and bring 'sinners' to 'salvation' doing so 'one sinner at a time.' The actual truth was that religion was a tool of oppression designed for the purpose of disgusing the fact that sinful systems were in place on the earth, for protecting the status quo does not involve protecting individual people, but rather it is the protection of sinful systems of domination and oppression which empower individual oppressors who then play a game of musical chairs and take turns crushing the rest of the human race. They can do so not because they are powerful people, for they actually wipe their own arse ends after they take a shit, but rather they were able to pull levers and punch buttons which were kept safely in place by that tool of oppression and that servant of the status quo, hypocritical and corrupt religion, and the brainwashing doctrine of 'original sin' which religion employed to keep people so damned stupid and ignorant that they were critics of sinful people rather than becoming critics of corrupt and sinful systems, which were the real problem.


It was not for nothing that Caesar choose the priest and elevated the priest to supreme power in the fourth century, for by then the so called 'doctrine of salvation' had been perfected, and the cow sacrifice of the god baby Jesus for sin had replaced the true meaning of crucifixion, which was an act of terrorism and brutal oppression by Caesar. This is obvious, but it is equally obvious that this is something that people forgot once they listened to that Merlin the magician, the priest, and all the other things they forgot after that was inevitable and the world now heads to ruin as the result of this rotten corruption, as it was destined to from the very beginning of that worthless plot to stabilize the Roman status quo and preserve that Roman slave driving system by teaching the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Anti-Moses to those Roman slaves.