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| Wednesday, October 03 2007 07:11 PM |
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Subject: Base Weblog |
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Cloning Gone Bad |
Cloning Gone Bad
Current mood: hungry
I'm no longer a patriot. I think I still called myself a skinhead well into the 90's as I was somewhat of a nationalist. But I've learned. The television is a good teacher. So is the internet. Long before the gun rights debate, our government agreed to take away our opportunity to truly gain wealth. By removing the gold standard, most of us have been rendered financially impotent. We are a credit based society. Today's blue and white collar workers have no choice but to be catalogued, fingerprinted and traced by their numbers and spending habits. We don't buy houses we don't buy cars, we borrow them. If we were not a credit based society, these things at face value would be more attainable.
Why do I care, what does this have to do with a guy who doesn't live in that world?
Because of our loss of power combined with our loss of cultural identity we have become a fake culture, a parody of societies long past. Whether it be the renewed interest in body modification as a replacement for our lost rites of passage or a path to enlightenment through physical pain. Whether the popularity of tattooing as self identity or to belong to a tribe that doesn't exist. Look at our national interest in spoiled luminaries whose wallets make them demigods for little girls to worship. How many more professional poker players do we need? When will the Jews with their juris doctors, M.D.s, C.P.A.s start their own bike club? What will they call it? Nouveau MC "Live to Ride, Ride to Pose"
I was a boy in the late 70's and early 80's and grew up really fast. In the 80's I was snorting cocaine on a compound in NJ, working on bikes with friends that I later tattooed. I think at that point the co-opting of that culture was occurring, but these guys were dirty nasty gangsters. We were friends through the 90's we did a lot of drugs we liked dirty girls, a lot of these guys I've lost touch with, they were too dirty for me.
But now I miss them I miss punk rockers I miss the angry young man I was in my teens and 20's. It seems like we've all been replaced by well manicured faggots and tattooed straight edge sissy boys. The edge is gone and consumerism blurred it. Now you can buy the image, some are getting rich off of it, some are too late. I'll never forget the bar I used to drink in, full of lawyers with do-rags and fatboys. I'll never forget my last beer there. I looked at the losers, tipped the bartender and never looked back. I changed my life that night. I tolerate a lot less bullshit today.
Face it folks, now that choppers, poker, tattoos and punk rock are all over television, it's not cool anymore. It's just money. The stuff is on the TV so you'll buy into it. So you'll be distracted by your shiny new toys and your tough new image. Then you don't feel like such a schmuck when your fat loser boss asks you to wipe his ass again, and your credit card company, the IRS and your insurance take ¾ off the top of what you got paid for doing it. |
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BurningMonkTat2
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 Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 14:10 |
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| wow i couldnt have said it better myself!! you my friend are a poet. |
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