fig25a first i converted an hour of my life into cash & then i converted the cash into a book two pencils & some bookmarks
do i really need
a pencil that says a weapon with which to free speech
apparently that answer
is
what a shithead
fig25b hypocrisis
maybe this is what
their critics mean
when they accuse crimethinc
of being lifestylists
not that theres anything
wrong
with wanting a life
of consensus & freedom
but then
this isnt that
this is just the merch
might as well have bought
a damn anarchy keychain
at damn hot topic
once again tni hits the proverbial
nail in the balls
Negative sentiment – disliking – is asymmetrical in its power to shape consumer’s opinions of a brand: for every 10 likes, 1 dislike could tear a brand apart.
go ooooon
But we are not allowed to dislike. And herein lies a way out of the Like Economy. Dissent, dissensus, refusal are not easily afforded in Facebook. Dissenters have to work for it: they have to write out comments, start up a blog, seek out other dislikers. They are not lulled into slackivism or “clickivism,” replacing the work of activism with clicking “like” on a cause as if the sheer aggregate of sentiment will make someone somewhere change something
i am a selfstyled
disliker
of all the hundreds of folks
ive known
i am one of three
to ever opt out
of the facebooks
ive long hated it
first the bougie elitism
with which it left
alumni of my school
out of its loop
later its sicklysweet
commercialization
anything commerce
picks up with such a frenzy
is to be
deeply
distrusted
but what a great picture
amirite
fig23a death to myspace
bloody brilliant phrase sovereign consumer too
because it can never be you
personally
it is an abstraction
you personally
are a servant
just like all the rest of us
from the c suite to the pee moppers
"Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robber bands? What are robber bands but small kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men, is ruled by the command of a leader, and is held together by a social pact. Plunder is divided in accordance with an agreed upon law."
- St Augustine
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
- Max Stirner
fig23d quiet violence in the merikan desert
"I have my own army in the NYPD - the seventh largest army in the world."
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg
fig23e military surplus for the war on terror or immigrants or whatever
"So these villains, who call themselves governments, well understand that their power rests primarily upon money. With money they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort money. And, when their authority is denied, the first use they always make of money is to hire soldiers to kill or subdue all those who refuse them more money."
- Lysander Spooner
fig23f cmon books are you really gonna go there - yeah i went there
"For if the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the state, if it were convinced that the state is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the state would soon collapse to take on no ore status or breadth of existence than another mafia gang."
- Murray Rothbard
fig23g once theyve stopped working for the state theyre just dudes with a sweet ride
"Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people."
- Richard M. Nixon
fig23h damn people think they can just use their own bridges whenever they feel like it
"Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal."
- Frederic Bastiat
fig23i stop resisting
"You may think you belong to a big gang, you may be 50 people, even 100, but we have 32,000 in our gang. It's called the metropolitan police."
- Chief Inspector Ian Kibblewhite
fig23j see also a list of countries by size of police force
surely there is data to be considered here
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
- Charles De Montesquieu
fig23k the more translucent the window the more invisible the state
how often do you read a review better than most books
Punk was making up life for yourself, punk was inventing yourself, and punk was inventing the people around you, too, inflating them to the size of Gods or perhaps just cartoons. Punk was a scene and scenes are a form of myth-making.
and
Too often, stories about youth told by people who are not young focus, incorrectly, on romantic love. But traditional, romantic love is not what defines our formative years.... People would mistake Hell and Verlaine for brothers, Hell recounts. The mistake is exciting because they aren’t. Their sameness is trained, chosen, rather than ordained from birth. This kind of love is a rebellion, a freedom from the strictures of home and family. Punk is friendship, not love. It is the friend with whom we are literally or figuratively cutting class and hiding behind the gym, smoking and making plans to run away. In counter-cultures that refuse and reject patterns of domesticity, tradition, and adulthood, we define ourselves far more by strange friendships, by relationships that mimic not the love our parents were (or were supposed to be) in, but the camaraderie we had with our childhood best friends.
