It had been awhile since I had ventured into the club scene. This Independence Day holiday weekend changed that. Some songs you hear have a classic ignorance about them summed in Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks series as "booty, butt, cheeks, booty butt, booty butt, booty butt cheeks". This brand was indubitably in attendance. But, the most wretchedly worldly brand of ignorance is corporate capitalism induced obsession, and nigh idolatry of, luxury items' names.
Listen to this song and be the judge.
Drake says Versace 12 times in his bars. Quavo chants Versace with an imagined bobbing head and Cheshire smile, 18 times on the hook. Quavo then says Versace 7 times in his verse portion. The hook plays again. Takeoff plays the moderate card and only glorifies Versace 5 times. Then you hear the Quavo 18 again. Offset then finishes the song with an even more humble 4 mentions of Versace.
Versace, Gucci, Nike, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Tesla, Louis Vuitton, Mercedes-Benz et cetera, would be atomized in a freed market. A freed market is incompatible with the status quo of corporate capitalism. There are key institutional privileges granted to corporations in the status quo that bar us from true freedom. One of these is the State harassment, threatening, bludgeoning, stealing, and kidnapping done to people selling products of their labor that emulate others' ideas. Corporations cower behind the State privileges of patents and copyrights. These two devils shield corporations from the free competition that would spread the wealth more evenly in society. Anarchist writer Jeremy Weiland says we should "Let the free market eat the rich!"
A patent is a State gifted privilege of dominion over a combination of preexisting quarks, neutrons, and protons. A person asks the State, the monopoly of goons with guns, to steal from or incarcerate competitors emulating her combination of preexisting particles. A copyright is a State gifted privilege of dominion over a combination of words, beats, software et cetera. A person asks the State, the monopoly of goons with guns, to steal from or incarcerate competitors emulating her combination of ideas.* Who wins? The State and the corporation. The State wins whenever demand for it is either increasing or staying the same. To end the State, we must reduce demand for the State. Godwilling, to zero. The corporation wins whenever it is permitted its artificial reign by the State. The current reign of the corporation is impossible without the violence of the State against decentralized local producers emulating ideas. The corporation, as we know it, would collapse if we abolished patents and copyrights. Who would arise? At the expense of the corporate capitalists, the proletariat and bourgeoisie would arise. The countless jobless would find gainful employment, and use their numbers to shred the corporations whose life support of the State vanished. Long live the rEVOLution.
Furthermore, we must end the State.
Post Scriptum:
*If I am being repetitive, it is because the blunders of the State are repetitive. And I want you to feel that.
Listen to this song and be the judge.
Drake says Versace 12 times in his bars. Quavo chants Versace with an imagined bobbing head and Cheshire smile, 18 times on the hook. Quavo then says Versace 7 times in his verse portion. The hook plays again. Takeoff plays the moderate card and only glorifies Versace 5 times. Then you hear the Quavo 18 again. Offset then finishes the song with an even more humble 4 mentions of Versace.
Versace, Gucci, Nike, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Tesla, Louis Vuitton, Mercedes-Benz et cetera, would be atomized in a freed market. A freed market is incompatible with the status quo of corporate capitalism. There are key institutional privileges granted to corporations in the status quo that bar us from true freedom. One of these is the State harassment, threatening, bludgeoning, stealing, and kidnapping done to people selling products of their labor that emulate others' ideas. Corporations cower behind the State privileges of patents and copyrights. These two devils shield corporations from the free competition that would spread the wealth more evenly in society. Anarchist writer Jeremy Weiland says we should "Let the free market eat the rich!"
A patent is a State gifted privilege of dominion over a combination of preexisting quarks, neutrons, and protons. A person asks the State, the monopoly of goons with guns, to steal from or incarcerate competitors emulating her combination of preexisting particles. A copyright is a State gifted privilege of dominion over a combination of words, beats, software et cetera. A person asks the State, the monopoly of goons with guns, to steal from or incarcerate competitors emulating her combination of ideas.* Who wins? The State and the corporation. The State wins whenever demand for it is either increasing or staying the same. To end the State, we must reduce demand for the State. Godwilling, to zero. The corporation wins whenever it is permitted its artificial reign by the State. The current reign of the corporation is impossible without the violence of the State against decentralized local producers emulating ideas. The corporation, as we know it, would collapse if we abolished patents and copyrights. Who would arise? At the expense of the corporate capitalists, the proletariat and bourgeoisie would arise. The countless jobless would find gainful employment, and use their numbers to shred the corporations whose life support of the State vanished. Long live the rEVOLution.
Furthermore, we must end the State.
Post Scriptum:
*If I am being repetitive, it is because the blunders of the State are repetitive. And I want you to feel that.
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