The Sinclair Jungle
July 21, 2008 | Filed Under Gear-grinding, quick thoughts
I just finished “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair. I learned in history class and was told by others that it was a book that revolutionized the meat packing industry of America. I bought the uncensored version. When I started reading it, I was wondering what 5 chapters did they cut out. By the end it was very clear what chapters they cut out. I just researched what chapters to reinforce my beliefs. http://www.seesharppress.com/jungle.html
I think this book scared the commercial publishers. Originally written, it was not a book about the horrors of the meat packing industry. It was about the horrors of the elite in America. It was a book on the Class War that only the rich know about. It was a book on Socialism. And it was good. But the socialist publishers could not publish it due to lack of money. And eventually he had to give in and edit his book and make the cuts and cancellations they (the editors at Macmillan) wanted. They turned it into a book about the meatpacking industry and how dirty it was.
It looks like it was war inside the system. And this was one battle the Capitalists could never fully win and they had to give the people somebody. And that somebody was the meat packers. If they gave us them, then we would be pacified for a little bit longer. Would it even be possible to rewrite and updated version of The Jungle. The Jungle of today. The area in our lives that is killed or be killed. Sink, swim, or use other people as your life raft. Can someone write an uplifting tale of a character finally seeing through the bullshit and how all of our daily routines just show how we are prisoners. But we are even lower than prisoners because we PAY for our cells. But there is one thing that all the books that do talk about government keeping us down and behind lock, key, and camera have in common. The main character never wins. The main character only learns of the battle but is always put down. Arrested, commits suicide, or gets a bullet in the head after being brain washed that 2+2=5.
I think I’ll end there.
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Ya… i think most people to whom the true nature of government and civil strife is exposed ultimately resign to the “we can’t win” suicude because it becomes appaulingly apparent that government, in itself, breeds class and all of the horrors that come along with it and the only viable alternative, anarchy, is too much for to average mind to conceive. We are programmed, almost to the point of instinct, to hate the idea of anarchy. If there were no rules crime would be rampant. Really? If there were no rules, no property, no establishment, etc. could crime even exist. Not by definition… but in a community of enlightened people, a social anarchy, crime could only manifest in random delusional acts. You can not steal what is not owned and there is no call for murder if nothing is can be stolen. This is a week argument for anarchy but you can see where the rabbit hole ends in resignation rather than hope. There is an unthinkable amount of programming to be undone. So write the book Mark!
It’s called “throwing the dog a bone”…
If you got your “economic stimulus” check in the mail from the government, that’s your bone. Good doggie.
I saw a piece recently relating to the same thing - it was about some tech company (I think in NY, but perhaps not) that had an employee revolt on its hands. They were reducing their costs by firing some employees and reducing pay for the rest, and the slaves revolted - as I recall, they were doing a sit-in / boycott and talking angrily, building up to potentially trashing the whole place… and in walked a couple hundred dollars worth of “free” pizza and beer: problem solved.
Talking doesn’t work, when the people you’re trying to talk to not only don’t have the faintest fucking idea what you’re talking about, they don’t even know you’re there.
It’s not actually my practice to post comments, but I thought I would say that this was outstanding.
-G
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