Gauntlet
I’m afraid that my personal critic, otherwise known as “bee,” has laid down a gauntlet, of sorts. Bee thinks that the move from muscle car (which I STILL own) to economy ride, and the transition from night-time laborer to “9-5” cubicle-flunky somehow make me family man material. I think not.
To this assault I say: Ha, Ha! Remember, we are all stuck working for “the man,” and we do what we need to do to achieve our ends. Which, in my case, is getting an education, keeping a comfortable (but not lavish) home, driving a balls-out car, computer games, music, and enjoying what the arts have to offer.
Like the great AC/DC once encouraged, “Stand up and be counted!” Continue the fight my revolutionary brothers and sisters…your guerilla struggles against the corporate entities will be hallowed in the future! Kind of like that “Terminator” movie…
Continue to wear their business casual clothes, exist in their cubicles, and support their coffee funds; and all the while, constantly subvert their existence with half-ass work! Fight the power, indeed.
“Believe some say the neon signs...Might allow speakers repeatin’...And everything is fine...A subtle silence...To demolish the troubled conscious...Of a compass with no knowledge...And every freedom denied...Every dream is designed and broadcasted...From the masters to the masses...From the antennas on top of the trine...As far as the receiving planet during a panic is shorted...It reports back everything in your mind...Everything is lying...Everything is dying...Everything is a rule...And everything is a crime...Everything was healed...And everything rewinds...And new weather burn the feathers off everything's line”*
*From “Streets on Fire,” as recorded by Lupe Fiasco.
To this assault I say: Ha, Ha! Remember, we are all stuck working for “the man,” and we do what we need to do to achieve our ends. Which, in my case, is getting an education, keeping a comfortable (but not lavish) home, driving a balls-out car, computer games, music, and enjoying what the arts have to offer.
Like the great AC/DC once encouraged, “Stand up and be counted!” Continue the fight my revolutionary brothers and sisters…your guerilla struggles against the corporate entities will be hallowed in the future! Kind of like that “Terminator” movie…
Continue to wear their business casual clothes, exist in their cubicles, and support their coffee funds; and all the while, constantly subvert their existence with half-ass work! Fight the power, indeed.
“Believe some say the neon signs...Might allow speakers repeatin’...And everything is fine...A subtle silence...To demolish the troubled conscious...Of a compass with no knowledge...And every freedom denied...Every dream is designed and broadcasted...From the masters to the masses...From the antennas on top of the trine...As far as the receiving planet during a panic is shorted...It reports back everything in your mind...Everything is lying...Everything is dying...Everything is a rule...And everything is a crime...Everything was healed...And everything rewinds...And new weather burn the feathers off everything's line”*
*From “Streets on Fire,” as recorded by Lupe Fiasco.
posted by TGB at
7:12 PM
1 Comments:
With apologies to Shakespeare....
"The gentleman protest too much, methinks."
Counter seems to forget that he is already a family man of sorts. He's just in practice mode at this point.
He has a wife, a mortgage, a car, a job and two pets. Although his children at this point in his life each have four legs and sport a 24-hour-a-day fur coat, they are....for all intents and purposes.....his children. The proud parent in him even writes about them here for you!
Protest all you want....quote all the songs you want to.....it won't change the fact that you allow your feline child to waltz over your keyboard and your canine one to share your bed........dad.
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