The 1%-99% is a slogan, and like all slogans it's rather simplistic...it's a useful device, but of course it doesn't obviate people from taking responsibility...but i notice that despite revolutions or even in the suggestions from people wanting to change things it's most still rich 'Cunts are Still Running the World' - nothing radical, same old people whose daddy and their daddy going back generations or even centuries earned it...they don't seem to want to change, but expect the poor to do so. That's the annoyance - the brunt is always taken by the lower classes to pay for their extravagances, and I see no difference in any of the 'green' plans.
McLaren: well I'd not have a go over piracy; although recording South African artists during apartheid and ripping them off was kinda low. And the black thing - most of the time it's not a one way influence, you neglected Elvis who was the worst, supporting the colour bar making white versions of black rock/pop tunes...although in later life he broke out of that more and gave more credit...but McLaren as you say wasn't unusual in that.
No it's the feeding or supporting Sid Vicious's smack habit so he'd perform or be pliable...that was pure evil. Treating people as expendable might be an inevitable part of being a svengali, but either as Lydon claims he was making sure Sid got his fix, or at least standing aside or egging him on and not doing anything....and it's not like he didn't see the effects of heroin on the New York Dolls. I agree he's the most creative of the people I mentioned and most interesting...but he got where he was stepping on the heads (and corpses?) of many people. Not nice.
But true we make them important...and the technology at one point had a real chance of breaking this monopoly, but people wanted safe, they wanted polished, they wanted vetted, they wanted fucking competitions and pointless drivel and talking about the weather and coffee and obviously corporate interest plugging interviews and music policy. Probably good John Peel died when he did, rather than see what it's all become...and yes I'm fucking bitter about the podcasting thing for this very reason. The gatekeepers like iTunes and BBC and Podshow came in and told people what to like - the drivel or not radical same-old slop...the next Black Mirror goes into this.
But yes people get the Kings and Queens they deserve, although they're also told to also, so it's far from a totally free choice...people don't know they've got a choice most times, or never even think they have. Buying less shit is good...although some of the shit is useful, like my phone means I don't have to carry an A-Z - a certain person stood on it and it was broken for 4 days and I was kind of lost without being able to look addresses up, use GPS, google maps etc. It's not all bad...although I'm starting to think I should withdraw more from social media as after Egypt and South Africa the whole 'First World Problem Moan List' is really starting to bother me...people seem to be more bothered about X-Factor than Syria, more bothered about indeed Clarkson than Levenson (which probably only gets mass coverage as it combined celebrity with real news - and Murdoch bashing which i can't complain about).
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McLaren: well I'd not have a go over piracy; although recording South African artists during apartheid and ripping them off was kinda low. And the black thing - most of the time it's not a one way influence, you neglected Elvis who was the worst, supporting the colour bar making white versions of black rock/pop tunes...although in later life he broke out of that more and gave more credit...but McLaren as you say wasn't unusual in that.
No it's the feeding or supporting Sid Vicious's smack habit so he'd perform or be pliable...that was pure evil. Treating people as expendable might be an inevitable part of being a svengali, but either as Lydon claims he was making sure Sid got his fix, or at least standing aside or egging him on and not doing anything....and it's not like he didn't see the effects of heroin on the New York Dolls. I agree he's the most creative of the people I mentioned and most interesting...but he got where he was stepping on the heads (and corpses?) of many people. Not nice.
But true we make them important...and the technology at one point had a real chance of breaking this monopoly, but people wanted safe, they wanted polished, they wanted vetted, they wanted fucking competitions and pointless drivel and talking about the weather and coffee and obviously corporate interest plugging interviews and music policy. Probably good John Peel died when he did, rather than see what it's all become...and yes I'm fucking bitter about the podcasting thing for this very reason. The gatekeepers like iTunes and BBC and Podshow came in and told people what to like - the drivel or not radical same-old slop...the next Black Mirror goes into this.
But yes people get the Kings and Queens they deserve, although they're also told to also, so it's far from a totally free choice...people don't know they've got a choice most times, or never even think they have. Buying less shit is good...although some of the shit is useful, like my phone means I don't have to carry an A-Z - a certain person stood on it and it was broken for 4 days and I was kind of lost without being able to look addresses up, use GPS, google maps etc. It's not all bad...although I'm starting to think I should withdraw more from social media as after Egypt and South Africa the whole 'First World Problem Moan List' is really starting to bother me...people seem to be more bothered about X-Factor than Syria, more bothered about indeed Clarkson than Levenson (which probably only gets mass coverage as it combined celebrity with real news - and Murdoch bashing which i can't complain about).
I'd love to see that tshirt or text....