From KumquatGoo Sent Tue, Apr 13th 1999, 04:27
From KumquatGoo Sent Tue, Apr 13th 1999, 04:27
<<"provides funding for the Revolution." ? This is sarcasm, right?>>
For the record, this was indeed sarcasm. I just couldn't quite find it in my
heart to use the winking emoticon convention ;)
<<Generally, funds from drug deals go to support the BMW driving, Polo
wearing,
McDonald's eating, consumer based material, dollar ( fill in denomination )
spending white male hierarchy.>>
Briefly, please explain how this works. I'm not saying that it's right or
wrong, I'm just curious. Sorry if this conversation isn't obviously
music-related (unless you're Simon Reynolds...oops, didn't mean to bring
*him* up again).
<<I'd start buying drugs if it helped fund the Revolution.....imagine,
ecstacy dollars funding counter culture anti establishment warfare. Wow, what
a day that'd be. Here's 30 bucks for my bunk pills, now go shoot a bank CEO
with the money I just handed you.>>
This is sarcasm, right?
(from a different post)
<< hope this doesn't come off as reactionary, cuz i'm just as down with a
economic revolution around here as the next guy, but i think this belief is a
ridiculous attempt to justify a hedonistic lifestyle via some political
fantasy.>>
Actually, it was meant to be a ridiculous attempt at poking fun at Simon
Reynolds.
<<i mean, come on, first of all, how many poor people are getting addicted to
various drugs, staying poor because they have to feed their habit or (and
maybe this is worse) are using them as a substitute for productive thought or
activity? i would have to say the sheer number of the underclass that get
sacrificed in this supposed "subversion" of the rich is reason
enough to throw out this philosophy. but secondly, by selling these kids
drugs, you're only reinforcing their paralytic lifestyle... they're using
their free time to turn their free will over to some chemicals, they're being
purely hedonistic.>>
Without in any way belittling the drug-related problems of the poor, some
suspect that drug abuse can be found across all economic strata.
As for "substitute for productive thought and activity" and "turning free
will over," the first thing that comes to my mind is *television*.
<< if you enable this, you're reinforcing the same type of philosophy of
inertia that keeps these kids from attempting to do anything about changing
anything about their cushy lives, much less changing anything about the
society that keepst he lives cushy.>>
It's difficult to motivate change among the cushy people...what should we do?
- fred church
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