rebel music

i saw us at our corners with no holster decked glocks, no one snorting crack rocks, rich from shorting tech stocks... we were smokin' marijuana on a golden deck yacht... but shit, was just a dream about the cream we have not, snap back to reality at sounds of gun shots, take a peek out the window and get a whiff of that endo, if i pray it's for strays to miss my grand mama's lot, else the bells'll start tolling like that grandfather clock us niggaz stole from the landlady's shop, cuz we ran out of time, to earn dimes to pay the rent and the cops... so there's crime to engage in, rhymes spun in rage and, those who didn't make it out, homes locked in cages, shiiit i love life because hate gives it flavour, spice to the taste of scraps paid for our labour, as if bread crumbs was some shit to savour, master enslavers, muthafuck this i'm coming for you...

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"marc, why don't you write about all the happy things in life?"
"because i'm a moral person."
"what in the world does that mean?"
"well, while you basked in the blissful ignorance of your first question all around the world thousands of impoverished little kids were suffering as a result of flawed man-made political economic institutions. and while i can't do much to help them because i'm currently broke, i do the next best thing: i choose not to ignore such issues; in fact i bring it to the center of my attention by telling myself these stories. if i'm mindful about it now, when i make myself rich off of the money of privileged folks who pay to have their wealth managed i'll hopefully remember and take some action, though i'll probably buy a sports car first."
"silly marc, you mustn't think so much. you use too many words in your sentences. oops sorry, that's my iPhone, gotta run. ciao."

stream of consciousness

true democracy should imply an equal participation of all agents of a civilization in the affairs of the society it has created. if society is circumscribed by an economy in which wealth follows a Pareto distribution there exists no true democracy, only the pretense thereof. this facade manifests as the majority plebeians comfort themselves with the cosmetic, if not fatuous, "democratic" exercise of voting -where the only options available generally represent the two halves of the aristocratic class.

it is this plutocracy that the leaders of the "free" world intend to spread/maintain in the developing world as competition for resources becomes even fiercer. of course in an imperfect world plutocracy is less evil than, say, its military cousin dictatorship, but to accept such a critical imperfection is like crowning a winner-by-default.

the current status quo is not creatively progressive enough for civilization to withstand the coming pressures we will have to endure: for one thing, there will be great strain on earth's ecosystem as a result of humanity's runaway demographic and consumption trends while our somewhat mediocre profit-driven technological advancements lags way behind necessity.

overheard in Mmail

9:44 PM V:

youre uglz. ugly

9:51 PM M:

mispelled insults lack all force. go bury your head in the sand

8:59 AM V:

i know but the y and z are switched here! i found out when i tried to insult zou. see? there i go again. lol. no sand to bury myself in, maybe ill go jump in the mountain lake.

stream of consciousness

we got that ill shit so chronic, hooks more than weed in the phonics, buzz like the gin in your tonic, buss rhymes at speeds supersonic /so mad they deemed it demonic, hip hop possession no question, cuz by the end of the session got white folk speaking ebonics /forgive a nigga that's honest but life ain't half that was promised, so we just in for the profit, that green that cream, economics /and there ain't no way to stop it cuz we've got too much momentum, flows in the song of the ghetto kids, that old ones hated to mention /we tell the tales of the hardest shit, mind blowing heart wrenching, and there is no way to varnish it because the truth brings the tension /

groupthink

Groupthink members see themselves as part of an in-group working against an outgroup opposed to their goals. You can tell if a group suffers from groupthink if it:

1. Overestimates its invulnerability or high moral stance,
2. Collectively rationalizes the decisions it makes,
3. Demonizes or stereotypes outgroups and their leaders,
4. Has a culture of uniformity where individuals censor themselves and others so that the facade of group unanimity is maintained, and
5. Contains members who take it upon themselves to protect the group leader by keeping information, theirs or other group members', from the leader.

...taken from this article by the author of Ender's Game, whose novels i love but whose opinion pieces i'm not always impressed by

aliens with mad skills

contrary to what the title would have you believe this isn't about extraterrestrial rappers. it's about recognizing what business leaders and the markets already have...

America needs me.

i promise i won't outsource.

hmmm

so i was reading the news and saw that the head of BP had to resign after lying about a gay affair with a canadian. now i guess with left wing liberal fanatics running the media these days people's sex lives and sexuality just might be considered their own business but a man in his position should have known not to fuck a canadian.

a friend of mine was saying how turned off he was when after having sex with a girl he met online, he cracked a joke and she uttered the im-word "lol" in response. he would have wondered what the world was coming to had that situation been true. unfortunately he was actually just masturbating over the facebook profile of a girl he'd never met and had allowed the fantasy to carry on too long.

i am trying to write a screenplay for a movie that is half ennui half action. the protagonist would be a disillusioned young male artist called Jacques Phallus.