{"id":7661,"date":"2025-01-18T07:19:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2025-01-18T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T14:19:24","slug":"integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2025\/01\/18\/integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"“Integrity”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working in this factory
\nfor nigh on fifteen years
\nAll this time I watched my woman
\ndrowning in a pool of tears<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve seen a lot of good folks die
\nthat had a lot of bills to pay
\nAnd I’d give the shirt right off my back
\nif I had the guts to say<\/p>\n

Take this job and shove it
\nI ain’t working here no more<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The narrator never does get the nerve to say those iconic words out loud to the evil bosses. He dreams of it day and night. But it remains a silent howl of pain, and a fantasy. <\/p>\n

It was for me too. <\/p>\n

It’s too late for me to say them now. My wish for you is the youth, resources, and towering moral strength to actually say them out loud. <\/p>\n

Some a’you will say something along the lines of: But … but I like my job. <\/p>\n

And I would reply: It’s not technically impossible for that to be true. <\/p>\n

Statistically speaking, however, you’re lying to me, and yourself, and have been taught, and then taught yourself, how to go along and get along as a happy house negro. <\/p>\n

To look down on your brothers and sisters who work in the fields, and factories. <\/p>\n

And to look down most of all on those who would rather live the hell out of the way and on the run, under a highway bridge, than to live your life of enslavement. <\/p>\n

To damn them as lazy moral defectives, from the comfort of your Master’s warm kitchen, from the lofty heights of your Commander’s horse. <\/p>\n

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you like him or not.
\n\u2014\u200aJohnny Paycheck<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which sounds exactly the same as the sentiments in the lyrics to “My Way” … <\/p>\n

But honey, I’m here to testify.<\/p>\n

It’s just not, no matter how pretty and tempting it might be to think so. <\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

I hope you get out while you still can. <\/p>\n

Not just from the hell of your owner’s corporation, but from the country he owns too<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Delusional Policies Driving America’s Decline<\/a><\/p>\n

Israel is in Total Disarray<\/a><\/p>\n

In the 1950s, Paycheck was court-martialed and imprisoned for two years for assaulting a naval officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe he smacked The Officer because he was a moral defective. Yes, may be. <\/p>\n

I don’t know. I wasn’t there. <\/p>\n

I’m old and I’m done with judgments. <\/p>\n

At least about that sort of thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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