Kill the hydra?

Corporations have spent the last 50 years creating reasons for people to hate us. They have travelled all over the world taking the profits without paying the costs.

And now, when those people come to collect on the damages, those same companies are right there to sell us the shit we need to defend ourselves.

Fucking convenient.

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Rabbit chopping

I don't know why they talk about chickens with there heads cut off.


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A thing

Histories are only written by people with a future.


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The Future

future	119 up, 18 down
	buy future mugs, tshirts and magnets A period of time that you presently want to be in be in because of the wonderful theories and concepts envisioned. But when the future becomes the present, you'll wish it were still the past. because the theories and concepts either (a) never came true, (b) weren't worth the wait, or (c) really sucked.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=future&defid=315726

ok, i've now read several of this person's supplied definition and (s)he's a pretty dark kid. I do like this one because, though real bitter and youngish, makes a good observation: You may wish you were in the future, but when the future arrives you gripe that it ain't what it used to be.

copyrights

In the modern media market, producers are somewhat handicapped in negotiations with consumers over price because the choice for consumers is not, as in other markets, one between having and not having, but rather between buying or finding. The price invoked by producers is weighed by consumers against an assessment of the their own time-value and whatever personal sentiments they have for legitimacy.

in that environment, the onus of legitimacy is the definite burden of the producer to maintain because the extent they are seen by consumers as legit is the moral threshold for them to act in the producer's interest instead of co-opting the merchandise.

Dialog

"Are you drunk?"

"Not enough to lie about it."

The Democratization of Violence

The 18th Century taught us that even the biggest army could still fall to a smallest militia. And already the twenty-first century has bent that arc down to only a handful, approaching one.

When we live in a world where any person could end it, how will we act? Would you kill me before I can kill you? Or would we recognize that we owe our individual sovereignty to all the billions who allow us to have it here on this crowded spec of wet iron in the middle of nowhere.

Because they can take it back whenever they want. And nine times out of ten--for nine people out of ten--they do; the ones carrying the guns as much as the ones not-watching it on tv.

The democratization of violence is technology's gift of the universal franchise for tearing something down or blowing somethig up.

In a world of retail access to total violence, we simply can't continue to govern by invinciblility. The ruling Prince may be right that love fades, but he's forgotten that hate lasts forever and 21st century peasants have a much more effective fertilizer bomb at hand.

[we need to look up from these flickering shadows...]

Stop thinking we need to make people see things just like us. Society is not about concensus, it contact. It's about a negotiation where no advantage is taken except shared by all equally.

[i know. In our time, it's hard to think of something we could all take equally as much of an advantage. It's an oxy moron, or something from Escher. And who does that frame in opposition?]

More to come.


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