Come and Read
When they came for the Palestinians
I spoke out for Gaza, and was ignored.
When they came for the trans community
I spoke out for justice, and was ignored.
When they came for the black community
I advocated for disarming the police,
And was ignored.
At some point,
We’re gonna have to act
Or there will be no one left to speak for us
When they come.
What’s your favorite candy?
Peanut butter and chocolate is the best pairing since cheese and burgers-
Some would say since corn and nuts (not me, that sounds horrific!)
The second best amalgamation of food since pizza!
Some like Butterfingers but me? I am a 5th Avenue man.
Zagnut is a classic among peanut butter bars. A little too hard for my tastes!
Butterfingers tend to stick in the teeth, fun to eat but cleanup is a mess!
Resse’s? As DragonBall Z’s Cell would say, “perfection!!”
Though peanut butter M&M’s are good too.
I’m gonna cut this short before I get hungry. Have a good day!
(NOTE: I am not being paid by the companies that make the candy I mentioned above. Also, a lot of candy companies rely on slave labor to make their confections. Enjoy that Hershey bar!!)
It seems the endgame of Wall St and Silicon Valley is to have a Utopian society made exclusively for them, the way they’re rushing to put working humans out of a job. From self scans at grocery stores to fully automated McDonald’s restaurants, they’re doing anything and everything in their power to take the human element out of jobs.
I know what you’re thinking- “but isn’t that what we want? A future just like in the Jetsons?” (Remember that show? God, I’m old…) The problem is even in the Jetsons they had someone pushing buttons, and looking over the work. They still had managers and workers.
To say that capitalists in our reality would rather throw George Jetson and his family off their platform home and into the hell below would be like saying the American government is a lil dirty.
Add to that the studies in evil AI (they’re making AI evil with no option for undoing it- https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-train-ai-evil-cant-193117018.html?) and it becomes clear the powers that be don’t want a peaceful AI overlord. They want AM and a full on I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream type future scenario (but one where they live in luxury, of course),
Now, here’s the question: What can we do about this? The answer is kind of out of my range at the moment. Seeing how most governments in this world only respond to money, and we the people are chronically poor, we can’t rely on asking them nicely to not put an AM in charge of the nukes. We will have to abandon the idea of peacefully protesting in general in light of this and a lot of other things. If we want to survive to see another thousand years, we will have to fight the ruling class like there’s little room on the raft and buddy, the ship’s sinking. Because it is.
Till next time, everyone!
Full of spite and unfettered contempt
He takes it out on his coworkers.
Complaining, sniping…
Talking about people within earshot,
And if he knew how few people tolerated him,
It would change nothing.
So petty and mean,
People would rather end themselves than stay with him!
We call him “the goat lover”
But “love” requires consent…
So really, he’s the goat rapist.
How is it a New Year
When nothing changes?
When people are sleeping on streets
Outside empty houses?
When our leaders don’t care
Preferring to play war?
When the good suffer
While the bad sleep well?
How is it a new year
When the problems of the old year
Are still here?
Two pages in
Staring at the screen
Mouse icon
Blinking, blinking
Taunting me
Laughing at me!
I am a man
Trying to overcome a mountain
Trying to navigate the seas
But I can’t
I got the bloody yips
I’m stuck in a rut
Writer’s block is kicking my ass!
A friend has approached me about writing a comic script for a. Three volume graphic novel series.
The series is gonna mix cyberpunk aesthetics and superhero tropes to make a tale about class struggle. The first volume is due by 2026.
I got a cold, too. Gonna be a long week as it’s gonna be bad for 3-5 days… and I’m only on day one…
So I got a comic to write and a sickness to beat. Something something as much as it thinks you can handle…
Till next time, everyone!
If god had worked sooner
We would’a been rid of that loser
By having him swing from The Hague.
What a sight it would’ve been
To see justice so tardy
Reminds us that there is two systems of karma-
One for us,
One for them.
And theirs is lacking in its delivery.
The man wrecked the world-
Cambodia,
Vietnam,
And others.
Many children who never knew their parents-
Or their birthdays!!
All so we Americans can have seventeen different ketchups to chose from.
It is disgraceful.
WE are disgraceful.
After all, WE allow THIS.
Lately-as in the last decade or so- I’ve been noticing a problematic trend in every superhero movie (and a few TV shows). This trend that seems to be supported by the studios and the government is a reductive and socially damaging idea designed to make us complacent and helpless to save ourselves from the tenor of the times.
I call it a trend, but it’s really more of an idea, put into our heads Inception-style in a way I’ve only noticed since Batman Begins. The idea can be summed up as: Change is bad.
This idea is populated throughout superhero movies, along with this idea that heroism is a born trait that cannot/should not be learned. I mean, if Tony Stark can make next-level tech in a cave with a box of scraps why can’t anyone else? Well, according to Iron Man 2, if a poor man makes an arc reactor, then it is automatically used for evil. In real life, Whiplash would be a sympathetic character whose life was unfairly ruined by Tony’s dad’s sense of patriotism, but in the movie, we are supposed to jeer at him for suggesting the main character’s family of weapons merchants and billionaires could ever be anything less than the milk of Christ.
And then there’s The Dark Knight Rises, whose climax involves Batman raising an army of cops to, for lack of better wording, “put the poors in their place”. But the poors are led by Bane who wants to destroy Gotham for being corrupt, as per the League of Shadows’ charter you say. Funny how the evil bad guy in the movie is embraced by the desperate and downtrodden, wouldn’t you say? Did I mention this movie was made during a real life event (Occupy Wall Street) where poor people protested the corruption of the rich? The very wealthy who bankrupted the country and were rewarded with more of our money for it?!
I mean really, Christopher Nolan.
This is because all of Hollywood is forced to kowtow to the United States military via the US Office of War’s Bureau of Motion Pictures. That’s right, you heard me: every studio (and by unwilling extension the creatives that work there) is bribed to kowtow to the Military-Industrial Complex. To make movies, the screenplay has to go through a military bureaucrat to be “approved”. For a movie in Hollywood to get approved, any references to America as anything other than a shining beacon of freedom and the light of society have to be removed. If the American military is involved in the movie the same goes for them, or the military will not advise the filmmakers on military things. It is very hard for a movie to be made in Hollywood without an okay from the Bureau of Motion Pictures.
Some would call this a symbiotic relationship. I think of it as parasitic, a jaboot on the throat of truth and creativity. And where superhero movies are concerned, it takes a manipulative and wicked turn. Casting those who wish to make the world better as bad or having evil ulterior motives (Killmonger and Bane fit both of these molds) puts the idea in the heads of the people that cannot be escaped and seems impossible to deny: the idea that change is bad and we’re bad if we want it. And that message is antithetical to humanity.
Truth is in this day and age WE NEED CHANGE. Things as they are cannot keep on. The rich use their wealth to influence our government against us. Cops kill people without trial and due process is basically a memory now (just ask the people protesting Cop City. https://search.aol.com/click/_ylt=AwrEsazfzUtlxTUJuJxpCWVH;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzMEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Nj/RV=2/RE=1699495520/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.msn.com%2fen-us%2fnews%2fcrime%2fdozens-indicted-on-georgia-racketeering-charges-related-to-stop-cop-city-movement-appear-in-court%2far-AA1jupQ5/RK=0/RS=qWz1yebfwisgE5V3.1EYgI_Fbvw-). We are led by sociopaths who will never live to see the consequences of their actions, which is probably why they commit such atrocities. We need things to change. WE NEED CHANGE AND THAT ISN’T BAD.
Consider this next time a superhero movie tells you otherwise…
Till next time!
Shitty days
Make the less than shit days
Bearable
And the actually great days
Wonderful
I have to apologize for the lack of updates. Been fighting a months-long case of writer’s block, but I am still here. Hope you’re all doing good and keeping well.
Till next time, folks!
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