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The Anerican Dream

El_KabongEl_Kabong Posts: 4,141
edited August 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
I wanna live in a gated community
I wanna live my life in total apathy
I want corporate op/ed channels to form my opinions for me
Pump me full of fear so I can cling to your distractions
I want to just accept your wild rationalizations
Tell me what to buy so I can fit in
I wanna live my life by what the TV tells me
I'd stop and think for myself but I'm far too busy
I don't wanna know about your problems
I can't afford to help ya cos i'm defined by my possesions
I don't care if you don't have enough, only that I have more
I'm not gonna help cos I'm a greedy little whore
I want to consume overprocessed food and bottled water
the newest usesless contraption for a few months until they come out with something better
I buy magazines just to find out who I'm supposed to be.
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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Comments

  • pjsalpjsal Posts: 80
    Sad, so sad...but true.
    "The Simpsons" make me laugh, but they really do reflect most of us. Sad.
    Recycle...what goes around comes around.


    www.sallysbeadworks.com
  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Man you have been away, way too long. Good to see you are still kicking it old school.
    You've changed your place in this world!
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I appreciate this. The thing that unnerves me though is that articulate dissent can also become assimilated as an 'incorporated emergent ideology' within the dominant hegemony itself. So, it's almost as if we're "allowed" to bemoan the worst common denominator of state-spoonfed "arts" and fool ourselves what we're doing is the alternative, at a sufficient remove or relative autonomy from dominant cultural forms and systematic misrepresentations of our consciousness, our identity and our community. But really, we're still fucking peasants, as far as they can see.

    Cheers for this, El Kabong. Good to see you around.
  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    "Too bad your faith has come down, to money and a TV"

    Goodun, El Kabongalong! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • pjsalpjsal Posts: 80
    Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
    I appreciate this. The thing that unnerves me though is that articulate dissent can also become assimilated as an 'incorporated emergent ideology' within the dominant hegemony itself. So, it's almost as if we're "allowed" to bemoan the worst commom denominator of state-spoonfed cultural forms and fool ourselves what we're doing is at a sufficient remove or relative autonomy from dominant cultural forms and systematic misrepresentations of our consciousness, our identity and our community: But really, we're still fucking peasants, as far as they can see.

    Cheers for this, El Kabong. Good to see you around.

    Yeah, great to have the Kabong back...
    and, what you said above, I think...
    *scratches head and ponders*
    Recycle...what goes around comes around.


    www.sallysbeadworks.com
  • suedesuede Posts: 247
    Really good and very true. I've never read any of your stuff before, but if this is a sign of your work, then I can't wait to rad more. The title is supposed to be American, right?
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    when truth is fiction, and TV reality

    U2 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • AbuskedtiAbuskedti Posts: 1,917
    You would hope when reading something like this that it was a prediction of a possible future if we don't get right. But this is no wake up call, we are already there.
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