Masters And Slaves

The Dungeon - your “free” Western  countries

The Dark Room - the shadow unregulated banking system that nobody is quite clear about.

The 4 Chains Hanging From The Ceiling – the Fed, The Treasury, the IMF and the ECB

The Sling That Hooks Into The 4 Chains – the tame flexible politicians who provided the support

The Trance Music – all the soundbites about how unregulated capital movement and debt creation contribute to real economic growth and globalization

The Top – the bankers on Fraud Street

The Bottom – You, the middle class in the West

The Party Favours – the happy mutual creation and assumption of unknown amounts of toxic personal, commercial and sovereign debt inter-connected with completely unpayable counterparty risk.  Hit after Hit to ride the wave of a higher high and over-leveraged in Trillions.  Completely removed from rational reality.

The Lube – just how easy it was to create this shit and penetrate individuals, companies and countries.

The Latex Gloves – the way in which the bankers hid their real motives in plain sight, the tacit immunity from prosecution that is now protecting them and of course, to wipe the shit that already is seeping – or to smear somebody else with it.

The Stirrups In The Sling – the gradual and tightening restrictions on personal freedoms in the West.

The Fist. The Foream And The Elbow – the depth of the austerity measures, higher taxes, inflation

The Scream On Penetration  – the realization of the sheer scale of the debt and that You, the middle class in the West as yet, have no Safe Word to stop the fucking.

The Fist Withdrawal – the downsizing, the worthless real estate, the helplessness of watching the retirement fund sucked out to near zero, the gut wrenching feeling that all you're good for is to service debt for someones else's pleasure and profit.

And the cycle repeats………………

Originally published 14 November 2011.  Republished 28 March 2013.