With apologies to Leonard Cohen. Here are a few more things that "Everybody knows..." but not everybody admits.
1) People know what is right and what is wrong.
2) It's hypocritical to whine about "welfare queens" scamming a few food stamps while turning a blind eye to the massive white collar crime that completely dwarfs welfare fraud in this country.
3) Hard work and talent will give you a comfortable living, but it will not make you extremely wealthy.
4) To become extremely wealthy, you need to be lucky, manipulative, and/or corrupt.
5) Ken Lay, Bernie Madoff, and many other white-collar criminals have caused more harm than an entire prison full of drug dealers. But white-collar criminals are rarely -- if ever -- given the sentences they deserve.
6) Regular people have a lot more power than they think. Those who benefit from the status quo do not want large numbers of people to stand up for what's right.
7) For that reason (#6), a lot of talking heads divert our attention from issues that really matter, and ridicule or harass any attempt to organize.
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Edgy the Anticlown is your ally in the struggle for self-awareness, which requires not only understanding ourselves, but also understanding the reality that influences us. Edgy holds no institutional loyalty in his mission to undress and expose the "clowns" that confuse and twist reality for their own selfish ends.
Edgy envisions a world that empowers cooperative, rather than competitive, personalities. Edgy is not afraid to change his mind, and does so often. But he will never be insincere. You always know where you stand with Edgy the Anticlown.
Edgy envisions a world that empowers cooperative, rather than competitive, personalities. Edgy is not afraid to change his mind, and does so often. But he will never be insincere. You always know where you stand with Edgy the Anticlown.