We're all chattel slaves, now.
First they commodified our emotions.
Then they commodified our food.
Then they commodified our water.
Next, they'll commodify the air.
Corporations once existed for the public good
They were only granted their charters temporarily
Now they have equal power with the governments
Both mutually reliant on the other.
The corporation requires the state to exist.
But the state has put so much stock in the corporation, that it gives it free reign
First the corporation is equal to a person
Next, it becomes more free than a person
Free to restrict freedoms. Take over a nation's infrastructure.
The weak nations first, but as the powerful states become more dependent on the corporations than the corporations are on them. . .
It's the new fascism.
What once was free and a right
Is now a privilege only granted to the obedient.
Self-reliance and independence become impossible,
yet we are more distant from each other than we've ever been.
Big brother is there, but we didn't need the misguided revolution.
All we needed was passive acceptance.
You wanted to care, but you wanted a new T.V. more.
When we're in shackles, we'll have only ourselves to blame. There was no conspiracy. No master plan. It was us, supporting the system that now controls us.
The new fascism is a mark of failure for the human spirit. Only those who once lead us in reason can lead us to peace.
For y'all who don't know, the Gorillaz is probably one of my favorite bands in existence!
And guess what? You can listen to their entire new album
here.
And it's good shit.
Ever since I was young, I always hated the North American Standard mm/dd/yy. It just ticks me off. It makes no sense, other than it tries to express the way we say "May 10th, 2006" or "January 9th, 2009." But seriously, it's annoying and confusing. Why wouldn't we have the numbers go in order of scale!!!
When I learned in grade-school that the Europeans used dd/mm/yy I was pissed. Why can't we use that, said I! I've since wanted to always use that, but that can get confusing for people. 3/5/01 and 5/3/01 would get mixed up if I tried to go against standard. So, for most of my life, I've used dd MMMM 'yy (as in 2 March '10) because I think it looks the most aesthetically pleasing, and makes logical sense.
Naturally, I've had to use mm/dd in official things, but I've grumbled about it all the way!
Well just recently I realized, hey! How come our time-of-day format doesn't match our date format?
Even if we use the European standard of dating, it's inconsistent. Time goes from bigger to smaller (Hours, Minutes, Seconds) and date goes from smaller to bigger (day, month, year).
So, from now on, whenever I can, I'm gonna structure my dates and times into biggest to smallest, the way computer databases often do. This will do wonders for organization, especially when it comes to files on my computer, and hell, it just looks cool.
So, here's the current date of time in my awesome-looking standard.
2010-3-2 12:19 am.
See how pleasant that looks? But just now I realize that maybe it would be nice to have the smallest measurement first for the date, since you'd get the info you're least likely to remember first. . .
Oh well.
EDIT: However, I'm having trouble changing the CSS to make my post's time stamp into this format. I know I need to stick this: #config timefmt="%Y-%m-%d %r" into something. . .
Need to stop being delicious.
Our contemporary world-view, in the context of modern intellectual and academic philosophy, is burdened by a nagging standard. Those concerned with deeper philosophical and psychological understanding must accept certain basic philosophical conclusions, and then hide them. I'm not saying that our society operates under these as hegemonic concepts, far from it. These basic conclusions often go against our hegemony. And what makes these conclusions special, is that they must be kept under wraps.
There have been times when it became either acceptable or at least feasibly safe to voice any of these assumptions, and often this is done with great emotion, even though the quiet ones feel no need to be passionate about it. We've seen this in the various historical periods where topics involving Atheism and Agnosticism arose in academic discourse. Other ones, such as the lack of true free will or the true minutia of difference between man and animals, are not secrets, but rather concepts that are merely ignored.
We need to find room in all common intellectual discourse to not only out these underlying notions but deal with them. We need to be able to realize what it means to exist in the cosmos. Only then will we truly become more than tailless monkeys with over-sized brains.
When we let go of the ideas that allow us to think we're "special," we may actually become far more significant in the cosmic perspective of life.
I can see children, from a young age, being taken to gardens and explained to the complexities of plant reproduction, the beauty of each plant cell, the way in which plants gather the sunlight. I can see people, rather than praying to bronze-age idols or violent cult-heads, finding peace within themselves in the stars of the sky, knowing every atom in our body was once within one. I can see a future where the two greatest virtues are empathy and rationality. I can see people loving one another knowing we're interconnected with every element of our being and through our place in the cosmos. I can see a peaceful and intellectual future of happiness and knowledge. Scientific learning becomes the basis for a new human religion. A religion that allows us to be at peace with ourselves, one another, and the world.
I'm also proud of my new rolling abilities. I'm a real boy!
I'm about to go eat FOOD.
FOOD.
FOOOOOOOD.
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
Now all the non-state jobs in Oregon are going to disappear.
All the corporations fueling our economy will move to different states.
Entrepreneurs will shrug and say "What's the point, now?"
The tax raises will cause Oregon to explode.
Women will scream, children will cry, men will rob 7-11s.
Satan will rise from Hell and steal all of our Hamburgers.
People's socks will inexplicably disappear.
The Conservatives warned us! Now we must face the consequences!
And remember, no successful developed country has ever had a healthy economy and happy populous with strong progressive taxation and a well funded Educational system. Not a single one. Not Finland, Denmark, Israel or Holland. Not Canada or New Zealand.
