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kids know that shoot is just shit with 2 o's. not one of carlin's more profound remarks, but i think it's cute. basically, the truth is better than euphemism, better than subterfuge. the thing is, we are so very far removed from truth in this country, that euphemism and subterfuge are our new realities. for us, the truth has ceased to exist. we wouldn't know what it was if it walked up to us and introduced itself. we have our substitutes. you know them well. work. bills. goals. church. sitcoms. the real house wives of orange county. at times, they all seem about equal. humor is where you can find it, but you can't find truth anywhere. they banished it. kicked it out of the country. removed it from the premises. fox news has multiplied. it's on all the channels now. it fills the streets, has our students ears in their classrooms. extremism is the new neutrality. we are a righ wing culture with two right wing parties, as the masses of whites fear a socialist takeover. hitler would be proud, as would the indian killers and slave catchers from our past. but, in so many ways, we have them licked. we are smoother, slicker. we have a superficial hipness. we have incorporated the victimized, co-opted the oppressed. even snuck a few of them into the elite. given them millions to entertain us. we have even stolen their slang and style. oh, the wonders of modernity. of course, the bombs still fall, usually on the poor and non-white, as they always did. we might love lebron, but we still need our oil. the big o might be in the white house, but nigeria still has resources we insist belong to us. having a token or two doesn't mean you own the train. all of us have a few tokens in our hands. we have "choice" beyond compare. never have there been so many choices. as long as the choices don't change anything. you know the kind of power us modern ametricans have...what kind of oreos to eat, what style of porn to watch, whether to read a moderate right wing or extreme right wing paper. we are overwhelmed by choice, as the wars are waged and the people are poisoned.

never before have we had so many options and so little power.

something to ponder, as i figure out what to listen to next on lala.