Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial civilization. Our way of living—industrial civilization—is based on, requires, and would collapse very quickly without persistent and widespread violence.-“Endgame”
The Self-Attribution Fallacy
Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.
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Social decisions are determined primarily (and often exclusively) on the basis of whether these decisions will increase the monetary fortunes of the decision-makers and those they serve.
Derrick Jensen “Endgame” Modification of Premise Twenty
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…Some of these forms of discrimination are not well-recognized or generally acknowledged. ‘Lookism’ for instance, is a subtle form of discrimination in which attractive people get numerous nonmerit advantages over less attractive people (e.g., more attention, more help, more recognition and credit for accomplishments, more positive evaluation of performance and the like)…
The Meritocracy Myth (click text)
” Be-Like-Water #swag “
(via wormmarket)
” in the battle of the urban vs. the pagan in which nature is forsaken, the ground of idle human survival’s violently shaken, but (what) will it be enough for people to see, or will strippers asses and sports channels lull them to sleep (for keeps)?”-Kadence “Rhetoric 2: Divine Speech” Hideaway
Rhetoric album statement: This album reflects the development of a style or technique of emceeing over a six year period. The technique is meant to address the current crisis of consciousness facing my people (the sons and daughters of the African ancients) first and foremost, but *not to the exclusion of the rest of the world’s oppressed populations*. The technique is meant to accomplish this goal by combining elements of the old Negro spiritual practice of encoding plantation escape instructions into work songs and spirituals, with the new communications and performance practices of modern hip-hop at the apex of stylistic delivery and content. today’s plantations no longer exist solely as physical work camps, but also as mental prisons; a psychological detainment that quite effectively generates the false consciousness of oppressed peoples that keeps them (most frequently) in a state of docile/zombie like detachment from both the world at large and their own situation—accomplished through both the seduction of false promises of material wealth and the more general distractions and misinformation of mass media and establishment education—as well as leading them (less frequently) back onto physical work camps and/or into physical prisons through the use of socially enforced myths about the inferiority of oppressed peoples and the self-fulfilling prophecies that result from such myths. Adding to this already-grave problem of worldwide mental slavery and the unacceptable living conditions that it produces is the environmental destruction this system generates, destruction that will likely create a real scarcity of natural resources and basic necessities for the oppressed and non-oppressed alike out of the now imagined state of scarcity. These issues are the substance of the ‘crises of consciousness’ the technique is meant to address and the emphasis of its use is on the awakening of the people all over the globe. The title of the album is intended to confront the likely response of detractors, those who are hopelessly mentally detained; to them such a project is of little worth and will only appear as a tidal wave of confusing and pretentious rhetoric…
“so who wants to peep the social condition? your local disposition as effected by hierarchical cultural impositions, maybe people should look at how many conscious decisions that they’re responsible for in the process of daily living, don’t think its a given, that reaction’s autonomous and common of conformity to authority that’s anonymous, in other words if you think for yourself without confusion, how without questioning the fact can you reach a conclusion on it?”-Kadence “Rhetoric” For The Fallen (click text)
“How could such a gifted mystic miss this? after concluding the lives of his peers were scripted he resigned to fret, his frame of reference shifted, preaching freedom he became a misfit, he spoke of a ground-of-being and games that twist it, daily role-playing social masks and lipstick, and further even the sociopath murderer fears the empty center at the core of his being, that threatens to collapse what his ego is seeing”-Barefoot Sneaker Slaves Cardinal Points
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could an emcee ever possibly spit philosophically beyond his, personal life drug-money guns or sodomy? or is it bound to be pretentious from the outset, doomed to be condemned before the album’s even out yet? are we so caged as to accept praise when we fail, to think outside of short-term small scale details (consistently)? is our vision so limited as a people to conceive of long-term abstract thoughts as evil?
Kadence “Rhetoric 2: Divine Speech” Dance All Day
