to be a republican. (yeah... i am not really in my heart. just on paper.)
of the news.
of stupid people who have no idea how the world works, but they are somehow running it.
of most christians.
of comfortable jerks who think the world is defined by a cosmic order that they fit in and then think that everyone can fit in as long as they just adjust to fit it, and they don't, so everyone who is poor somehow deserve what they get.
of what our politics has degenerated to.
of how much anger i can feel and feel justified in feeling at a debate over the way morons control my life and our lives.
at how stupid people think that the way things are right now is the way things are supposed to be. as if capitalism is the natural order of things. as if the way they want to run things is somehow the right way to run things. as if what they are trying to do is not simply imposing a system on us that fits their personal profit, agenda, and comfort. as if these people aren't "brainwashing" children when they tell them that it's okay to get rich and not worry about other people and that capitalism is a good thing. it is not a natural system!! i am glad they mention the matrix, because i realize how little they understood the movie. an important point of the movie is that the freaking people escape one matrix only to enter another matrix! there is no metanarrative, no grand, overarching ideology, and there is no escape from systems of ideology! i am not even sure what movie they were watching! neo leaves the matrix only to enter another order than is defined by morpheus. he doesn't become free of capitalism or something. the more i think about it, the more i can't even see how he could tie the matrix into the conversation. ugh! they are morons!
okay. so is this how most debates on tv are run, now? because i refuse to participate in them from now on. i am so mad right now.
this is what i am talking about:
i liked this comment from the comment guys:
"so lately i’ve been reading a lot on discourse analysis surrounding economics and the political aspects of economics, since the lines between governments and economies are getting incredibly blurry and weird, which is simultaneously incredibly boring and incredibly fascinating. and watching segments like these is very very interesting, because you’re watching the power elite literally scraping the bottom of the intellect barrel to figure out how to continue to dominate a conversation regarding why profit maximization is a great system- and they are losing it. they are actually starting to lose the narrative that they have built over the past fifty years regarding the roles of the state, the market, and society, because the logical extremes of their positions are becoming realized and it is an incredibly unsustainable and tenuous system. and apparently last week the republican governors association met in florida and had a strategy session to figure out new language to use- including the fact that they shouldn’t even say the word capitalism anymore because it has negative connotations! so now the republican party is probably going to start saying “economic freedom”. but that’s crazy, right?? the fact that the republican party is even recognizing that saying capitalism is a losing political marketing strategy! it gets my nerd alert bat signal tingling!"
and this is the best music video/ song in my life right now:
and this is the best/ most painful video in my life right now. it's why i can't buy clothes anymore:
love, zach
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