People selling stolen items openly on the street

2013.08. Mission St. stolen items vendor
2013.08 Mission St. stolen items vendor

One day was walking along this street – this particular stretch is harrowing to walk along, the squalor is so extreme – and I saw these people selling openly on the street items stolen from vehicles.

Today I spoke with a neighbor who lives down the street from me. A really nice old man who likes to walk. He is 80 and I admire his health and the fact that he gets out every day and walks.

He was telling me about the crime issues. He said his vehicle has been broken into 4 or 5 times, and was telling me that people who live in these street-level single-unit apartments down the block have had multiple break-ins.

While the elites who control this country sit inularized in their privileged realms, things are going down the drain.

It was Noam Chomsky who said many years ago already – well before 9/11 and all the ensuing BS – that America is going to end up like Brazil.  How right he was.

A few days ago I was looking at one of those sites where it maps available rentals and you can click on little place markers to see a popup of the rent. My jaw dropped to the floor to see how elite it has become around here, how astronomical the rents are. Its no coincidence that the elite realms become more elite at the same time as the wasteland spreads.

Neighborhoods which were once affordable to the middle-class have become privileged enclaves way out of reach for all but the elites. And I’m not bitching about tech jobs or Google busses or anything – its just that this is happening because – way beyond any one particular company or even industry – the fundamental structure of this society is and has been broken for a long time.

But, like Noam Chomsky said, as long as it “works” for a sufficient number of elites it effectively self-replicates and continues.

What sickens me the most is that no one is talking about the fundamentals. The basic fundamental things which enable any human being to live healthily and to thrive – that always underlies everything else.

But this satanic society in its greed profits when standards are lowered, and there is always another wave of people willing to settle for less. People who have cancer are willing to accept a heart attack as a step up, so the profiteers are able to make money off this and wipe out the standards for those who expected (and had a right to) more.

So now we witness in society the indignant heart-attackees protesting their “rights” and bitching about those who have a higher expectation of health as being “lazy” or “ungrateful”, all while the greedy elites sit back and laugh.