William Faulkner's Barn Burning

If you want to know who these white working class citizens against President Obama are, you should read William Faulkner’s Barn Burning. Faulkner takes the reader into a community that is often ignored with great literary skill. The white working class is a group that live a life that is as unstable as an urban black community. Barn Burning is a story about the desperation, bitterness, and destruction of the working poor. Of course the concept of working poor is oxymoronic. If a person works, they should not be poor. Faulkner does not leave the reader in a negative emotional state, Barn Burning has an endearing hero. What Tupac would call a rose sprouting up from the concrete. The best part about Barn Burning is that it is a short story, for those lazy readers. After watching Obama’s response to the mid-term elections, I would suggest that he read William Faulkner’s Barn Burning.

Where The Jobs Are

Almost every pundit or social critic says that the United States does not make anything anymore. Most of the factories in the U. S. are closed, with the few remaining ones on the verge of closing. Economist say that U. S. production needs to be exposed into more international markets. Are we still producing things or not? Yes we are. The problem with U. S. 21 century manufacturing is that it is being done in prisons.


Prisoners are building furniture, much of it ending up in our public schools. I guess students should sit up straight in their chairs to show appreciation the prisoner’s hard work. Prisoners also attach parts to other products such as clamps for bras. Prisoners are not only building and assembling, they are also clearing trees and brush. In New York, prison labor is stretching out into other aspects of the economy. Prisoners will soon clean up after storms. Why should public officials stop there? Soon prisoners can deliver mail, collect trash, and any number of public works that are now being done by working class citizens for pay. If you are looking for where the jobs are, just visit the jails and prisons.

End of Empire

The Empire of Egypt (Kemet) ran from Egypt down to Sudan. Now Egypt is broken and occupied by strangers. The Greek Empire was large and powerful. Now Greece is a small nation state that is bankrupt. The Roman Empire ruled multiple continents. Now Rome is a city in Italy. The sun never set on the British Empire. Now Britain has withdrawn from its colonies all around the world. The Empire of the United States is now at the end of its reign. The plantation plutocracy is barren.


We have to begin to think about what the United States will become. Will it break up into regional nations? Will each state become independent nations? Will the large ethnic groups get their own nations? It is important to know that these questions will be answered in the next 5 years. If we do not open up our minds and hearts to the reality of our new paradigm we could find ourselves lost and set adrift when the new geographical constructs come into being. Whether becoming a wanderer will benefit you is for you to decide. It is my job to warn you of what is coming.

The Matrix Trilogy

The Matrix Trilogy is a great cinematic series. It is the movie for our time. Neo (the hero) starts out the first movie trapped in an illusion of a society. He knows that something is wrong about this world and searches for answers via technology. Neo is finally awakened into the real world to find out that he was in an induced coma.


We are living in a society that is in a state of delusion. So many of us believes that our schools teach our children how to think, our elected official are running the country, our hospitals make us healthier, etc. None of those things are true. As a matter of fact I cannot think of one institution that does what it claims to do. Most of them are in opposition to their mission statements.

Don’t worry! The Matrix Trilogy is not a message movie that will bore you. There are plenty of action scenes. You will get explosions, martial arts fights, and Neo even learns to fly. All you have to do is watch the first Matrix, you’ll go back for more.