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In our digital world
a society of voyeurs
To each
his own
kaleidoscope
Your individual prism
That defines your “ism”
Only serves
to reinforce
schisms
illusions are created
and sold by those
Who have corpses
in their mouths
The false gods
are no longer sacred
Find your joy
in everyday life
Perfect the weapon
of your refusal
To Understand
just how subversive
That can be
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Economy
is an exchange
of humiliations
and aggressions
That transforms us
Into prey
Our constraints
are formed
by isolation and
Reinforced by
Electronic mediation
the gift of consumption
Is our destruction
there is no
extraction
redaction
intermission,
Or truce
To be found
between attackers
and attacked
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Down Quantity Street
03:40
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Quantity forms
the myths
Quality is rationed
Through activity
What is an individual
in an authoritative system?
But another price point
Included in the bar coded sticker?
Who will purchase their future
feelings, desires and needs
This exchange
Of measured relations
Is monitored through the
Calculus of capacity
To produce
And make others
Consume
As Systems seek
to standardize
soon we will all be left
with nothing
but the memory
of having once been alive
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The Sum of Seductions
04:48
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Today, reality
is imprisoned
to extend
into the real world
demands we rise
Through lived experience
Create change
through opposition
By casting aside
the guarantee of survival
by undermining
the belief
that power
is necessary
Reject the forms
which govern us
And their inherent
ordering principles.
In this historical crisis
possibility is in the air
Through the poetry of action
We can create change
Your spontaneous creativity
Is your “Revolutionary” ideology
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Power as Mediation
03:31
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In an Age of
artificial Happiness
Existence
in the contemporary
welfare state
that belatedly provides
But does not guarantee
survival
Under the dictatorship
of consumer goods
Power is purchased
and licensed
In this domain
where the customer is king
equality, fraternity and freedom
Is found through consumption.
Money, the odorless god
The fiat of our social contract
the quality of lordship
Found through marketable things
My hope lies with gravity
Combined with entropy
To weigh this system down
so that the oppressor
and oppressed
Will fall
at different
speeds
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Abstract Mediation
04:13
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The fight is unfair.
Words serve power
better than they do
space, time, technology
To transcend
depends on language
A develop systems
of signs and symbols
words, dance, ritual
music, sculpture and building
So Finish your
half-completed actions
overcome
self created obstructions
try to continue
in a form from which
hope will spring
Power can be overthrown
When we engage in everyday life
And expel the words and poison of hate
In our own actions and words
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Sacrifice
04:01
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Where constraint breaks us
mediation fools us
the seduction of power
is what makes us
Why do we choose to sacrifice
For causes that mutilate?
Why do we love our oppression?
Why do we believe in an imaginary unity
And accept appearances that reify?
Why do we take on roles
instead of living through authentic experiences?
Why do we align under a system of time
To serve and be defined and confined?
What weapons do we have
to secure our freedom?
How will you emerge from the cave of history
understood by “propaganda of the deed”
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God and State
Have merged into
One corporation
To maintain social organization
By selling a nexus of control
Power as a commodity
To be consumed
So we can be atomized
Never galvanized
Your Creativity can supersede the requirements of production
Your Spontaneity can neutralize the command of power
Your Poetry can redefine the requirements of consumption
Abolish feudal domination
Destroy bourgeois exploitation
Resist cyber separation
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Counter Argument #7
03:10
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The Uncivil Society Seattle, Washington
I do, because I love to do it. I understand that I am a hack musician, a terrible vocalist and a sloppy graphic artist. I don’t care about achieving perfection, because I am happiest while being engaged in the exalted messiness of my creative process. I don’t worry about capturing the perfect take. I am satisfied by the pure joy I derive from expressing myself without filter or restraint. ... more
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