Message 11/23
Date: 14-Jun-00 @ 02:09 PM -
RE: Acid lines
let me just start by saying i think it's hilarious that america has a "war on drugs" AND legal alcohol consumption... this to me is nothing if not a clear sign that the majority of americans are brainless, a classic american attitude -- self-righteousness paired with ignorant hypocrisy. when you don't educate your population, this is what happens... and i'm sure it's what a great many of the powers that be want to happen.
i'm not some idiot, i just think that fighting on ANY side of the "war" does nothing but give credibility to it, instead of exposing it as a pathetic sham.
and yeah, i was just looking at the technosaurus stuff a while ago (the cyclodon's actually what i meant by analogue sequencer, though there are some wicked-ass ones by TBS and analogue solutions... the latter are modulars though so it doesn't look like i'm affording that any time soon)... don't have the cash tho.
in case you didn't understand (i don't want to drag the whole thing into this thread either), i'm not pro-cop (or anti-cop -- you should really visit england and check out their police force... the thing is in the states, it's a different mentality, it's a more market-driven thing, so you get fucking asshole pigs, because if you're not rich you're not a person... that shit doesn't happen (as much) elsewhere because there's more of an infrastructure, a comunity, people treating other people like people. maybe you can't conceive of something like this actually existing, but it does. while you guys were busy trashing the communists, you didn't realize that being stridently anti-socialist also has anti-social repercussions -- when people aren't linked (through taxes or whatever) to each other, its much harder to get them to actually care about each other, cause they're in effect isolated. this is why you're so scared of your cops and need guns to "level" the playing field -- if you weren't all such fucking selfish, "our way is the right way" assholes, this never would have happened... you made your bed and now you're stuck in it.
the reason i have such a problem with it is, as a canadian, i see more and more of your frankly gross attitudes filter up here daily... here in toronto its cutbacks cutbacks cutbacks in terms of government, and we have to do this to compete with your economy because you guys are way more powerful. why? because your government doesn't care about anything but power. there's no community, no support -- it's like sweatshops, unethical and inhumane, but when considered only in terms of the market, very "efficient". then you can undercut your competitor's prices, cause they have much higher overhead costs -- after all, they're supporting the people that work for them, providing an infrastructure, which is expensive.
so to keep from being mexicanized by you fucking ignorant assholes, we have to keep adopting increasingly "american" policies... in ontario, the government's privatizing things left right and center, and as a result everything's going downhill, poverty and crime rises, while the rich get richer.
the solution is not to win any war, but to stop and realize that the problems you and i are encountering are inherent in the system. it's not like revolutions, etc. will ever happen, they don't even need to happen. the only thing necessary to overthrow the current balance of power in the states is education -- if you were all high school honour students, you wouldn't take any of the shit that gets fed to you. frankly i don't see this ever happening, considering you'd all rather just drink beer, get fat and fuck your lives away.