So I happened to l grow up in a town that spent 17 years pretending I could leave when I turned 18 years old, but they never let me leave.
So people knew about that when I was growing up, some very brave and cool people tried to help me. They knew…, the people who run the town, run the local clinic, so if you get hurt , you are in pain, and they can make the pain go away. So you don’t want to piss them off.
There is no alternative, and no competition. Except, maybe, getting seriously drunk and quitting your job, so you will never get hurt.
You can not ride a snow -machine or motorcycle, ( in Alaska?) the clinic is run by a church, so, if you have a good day…,, they want that good day to come from the church, and god, never a snow machine or motorcycle. Never, from your own choices. Always from things they choose for you, including the sexual relationships you get in.
If you got hurt on a snow -machine or motorcycle, they might ignore you, or tell their other customers to ignore you, that is social pressure, to stop you from wanting to get ignored by the entire town, if you have a stereo or a nice car or anything the church would call “vain and proud”.
They did not want to let me leave this town, they wanted to put me in a cabin, a hundred miles out in the woods, to live alone, like being in prison. They wanted me to start living in the woods by the time I was 14 years old. ( that, was 1978)
So they made it so I failed every grade in elementary school and junior high and high school. I did tenth grade three times and I was in the same math book for five years.
They would do or say anything to get you to not trust me.
They can make or break your marriage, and your business. They can turn your kids against you, they can literally make you hate foods you loved before you got to this town.
They can make you hate talking to your neighbors or doing anything to help the locals get more cash flow or alliances from outside the town.
The really rich and powerful people who are cool, know that the average citizen who went to an American high school will instantly think that CORPORATISM could fight the church and win and replace the local church with a government system.
The rich and powerful people think there is a better way. They don’t want , and will not support corporatism, they want us to get our neighbors together, and open small businesses and serve tourist customers and get the cash to build a hospital and run it our way.
The real government is stronger than the rich and powerful, and in the late 1800s the rich and powerful got the living shit kicked out of them , when JP Morgan and Guggenheim tried to buy , EVERYTHING in Alaska.
That means a couple of smart assed billionaires, lost their ass, bigtime and permanently when they damn near got all their employees killed.
The people of Alaska would gladly shoot any idiot who tried to tell them they were acting like teenagers.
When you cut ten cords of wood for the winter…., you will kill the guy who claims you are acting like an immature person.
That is not anger or, ego, that is the simple activity of removing the insane and useless from the mix of humanity.
That means, JP Morgan owned a cannery in Alaska, and his managers would tell grown men, that the men were acting like teenagers, and the men would kill the managers.
JP Morgan was acting like a ten year old who found a big bag of good weed and smoked it for a few months and started blowing serious cash on stuff he believed would make him look “cool” in his little “peer group.”
