by achrilock
Michael Giacchino – The Imperial Suite
The thing you gotta understand about imperials, whatever flag or bullshit brand they’re pushing, is that they are very capable and dangerous in large numbers, or even in smaller enclaves or alone, when they feel the heat of the machine at their backs. Disrupt the flow of that feeling of power, however, or catch them at a temporal or physical point where they feel vulnerability, and the facade collapses. Most are cowards at heart. That’s why they signed up to work for the empire. Think about it.
The thing you gotta understand about corporate journalists, or any professional on the corporate take and ladder in neoliberal world, is that, whatever their politics or their intentions, their entire life is built on a pedestal of absolute obedience to and repetition of the narrative. They step out of line their kids don’t get insurance. They don’t pay their mortgage. No more zippy plane rides or access. They have to move to ‘other’ America, where we all live. Few are willing to pay that price.
Cole Porter – Anything Goes
Citizens are reminded that when dissent is criminalized, when rules are overtly weaponized against dissent for the benefit of the state and its controlling oligarchs, the dissenters become criminals, and may then act as criminals, as they have nothing left to lose. This is not a boon to the machine, but rather its ultimate detriment, as the veneer of fairness under the supposed social contract is broken. There is only afterward an imperative to destroy the machine, piece by piece.
Movements are precisely that. They move. They act upon the system of their own volition. Taking advantage of favorable opportunities that may present themselves, yes, but also not waiting for circumstances or authority to decide for them. Standing in the street is an advertisement, a call to action. It is but the first step in initiating change. Placed, comfortable radical moderates, and the rules they enforce, are the foot soldiers in the oligarchy’s war on all that is good and beneficial.