Parody of "Age" By Jim Croce
"Rage"
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I've flown left, dove right, strode left and hid under the bed from frens.
Made so memories, that I can't fit them up my sleeve its a wearin' thin.
@WeirdMedieval@unicorn_movie@A24 So im working on something that has me taxonomizing your media gallery for inspiration materials, and heres my question. I can make sense of all of the themes except for the strange focus on animals. Like we can set aside the fact their bizarre, its more the bizarre interactions.
When I get to the bottom,
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop, and I turn, and I go for a ride
'Till I get to the bottom, and I see you again
Other sovereign states, in order to remain sovereign, have to sponsor their own black market / underworld operations. North Korea hacks crypto exchanges. Hell, the whole milieu out of which the Communist Revolution in China was made possible was the proliferation of organized crime syndicates & other secret (militia) societies. America is just the *leader* in organized crime. There is a great pretense put forward about our "War on Drugs" & so on-- but really, it's the same war as every other war, the war to control the flow of commodities.
You can see in Organized Crime-- what else would this be but capitalism, right? But actually-- Crime is not the domain of stalwart individualists etc etc-- it is corporatized, professionalized, at the highest levels indistinguishable from "corporate life." You could call our system "Socialism for Criminals" -- it is Brigand's Socialism-- a sort of Super-Imperialism where there is not even a "homeland" but rather just the inhabitants of the above & the below. America is colonized by its own criminal corporate superstructure-- it is not even the imperialism of yesteryear, where the imperial core were afforded some protections, some privileges, from the abuses abroad. No-- now all of this is made explicit, made self-evident really. There is no need to hide it anymore. Everyone is a little gangster now. The "polarization" & "radicalization" of Americans in recent times is not a revolutionary moment, but the masses clamoring for an in on the action. There is not even a pretense to a possible world in which organized crime is somehow done away with. If you talk to anyone, in their imagined world, organized crime always thwarts "the state" (the state herein being their notion of "the state as public good" rather than as private property, thus, in America, a phantasm of fantastical conjecture).
It is obvious in the simplicity of "you can never control the border of the US & Mexico. The cartels will always smuggle people through it. This can never end." Why is this? Because the "cartels" are just employees of the corporation.