Squeeze, Geez.

If you want to know what rubs my goat the wrong way, what really makes my brain frizz out, I can sum it up in just three words.

I hate bullies.

I hate people and institutions that are big and powerful. Who use their size and power to gain more size and power. And with that size and power, they beleaguer people to gain more size and power.

That's vague. 

Let me clarify. 

Bullying is how you're treated by your cable "provider." Bullying is how you're treated by the current amerrygrift tax system which because it no longer taxes the super-wealthy and their corporate holdings, lays more and more taxes on you. Bullying is making someone talk to a bot "that is dumber than a cat."

Bullying is consolidated wealth and the deafness and lack of empathy that comes from consolidated wealth.

Bullying is chanting USA! USA! USA! when, for instance, the greatest basketball team ever assembled elbows in the neck an Angolan athlete in the 1992 Olympics and is not rendered toxic. Bullying is institutionalized rape by trumpstein-acolytes. Bullying is when roughly half-a-dozen men take over 70-percent of an industry, destroy its viability, depress wages, halve the workforce while taking nine-figured payouts for themselves and their cronies, disparage the public by beaming them ugly, insultingly dumb, machine-made crap and calling it creative. Bullying is destroying jobs then calling yourself a 'job creator.'

Bullying is what's taken over my world on both macro and micro levels.

Bullying is stealing.
Bullying is resurgent racism, anti-semitism, anti-womanism, anti-humanism, anti-earthism, anti-Enlightenment.

Bullying is what is being called Neo-Feudalism, aka serfdom.

As Joel Kotkin wrote not terribly long-ago:

Our society is being rapidly reduced to a feudal state...,  Millions of small businesses are near extinction, millions more losing their jobs and many others stuck into the status of a property-less serfs. The big winners have been the “expert” class of the clerisy and, most of all, the tech oligarchs, who benefit as people rely more on algorithms than human relationships.

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. 

If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging.

I wish I found the above inaccurate and shrill.

But if I had my way, it would be the strategic under-pinning of how perhaps we could slowly begin to puncture the bloated bullies. And undo some of what's happened.

Clip 'n Cower.