Selling Our Souls to the Corporate Devil

WHEN YOU JOIN FACEBOOK, you are not their customer. You are their merchandise. They sell your info, info about where you live, where you shop, what you like to do, who you sleep with, all the stuff people so proudly, irrelevantly and stupidly post on the Zuckerburg estate, to all comers, mainly America's giant corporations-elite. In essence, they sell you. Makes you feel wanted, eh? You do not buy Facebook membership; no, you get that free of charge. And why not? When valuable merchandise is willing to walk in off the street, position itself on the top shelf of America's corporate masters, why make it pay for the "privilege" of becoming a salable sheepish corporate commodity? Facebook sells your membership to the highest bidder, and there are many standing inline online, ready to pounce. And pounce they do, scooping you up like the goods you have voluntarily, and unwittingly become. Progressive politicians and citizens, who believe in limiting corporate power and protecting individual sovereignty, want to inject legislation into the mix that would require permission from the consumer before being turned into a commodity. Permission by we the American people to withhold our privates from corporate scrutiny. Who could argue with this approach? Republicans, that's who. These supposed staunch defenders of the populist power of the common man do not want every man to have the power to determine his or her own exploitation-free fate. Because, you see, in the conservative universe of free markets, corporate power, money, and the freedom to make tons of it, corporate power trumps all, amid the supposedly conservative championing of the common man and his liberty to do as he chooses. So, we shall live in an alternative reality Orwellian future in which corporate power rules supreme, but that, by the almighty dollar, government is made just a wee bit smaller. The enemy is not the cosmetic apparatus of government, folks. The enemy is not congress, the judiciary, and the executive. The enemy is the massive corporate oligarchy which rules freedom's land with an iron hand, buying and selling politicians, along with the rest of us, to the highest bidder.