Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Youth of This Age:



Where are we now? 
We are all going through a hard-time, a recession, things never mentioned, situations never questioned. 
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The only things discussed are promethazine addictions, money hungry women, and hearts with no convictions. 
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What is your predilection?  
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I suppose it is to get rich quick? Buy Louboutin heels or bag a Top Model chick? 
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We have abandoned the basics; therefore these dreams have no basis. We stink like meat that has rotted in a sun that is racist. 
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A man once asked, "what happens to a dream deferred?"
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 I tell you there are no dreams, because our imaginations have been burned. 
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Here we sit heavy with debt, spending our last dimes on dreams never met. 
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The Chinese labor night and day, while on bottoms we sit playing Xbox all day. 
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What to make of the Taliban, North Korea, or Iran? 
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Who is our voice? 
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Is it Jersey Shore?
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 Lady Gaga or someone more, clever and witty, tall and pretty from a little town or a big ol’ city, maybe it is Carrie from Sex and the City or some loud mouth rapper from the inner-city. 
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Either way,
 we leave off where we start,
 discussing 
get rich quick schemes, 
promethazine, 
and convictions with 
no heart.  

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Mr. Creosote

 Game-Theory:
“Highly processed corn-based food products, with lots of chemical additives, are well known to be a major driver of weight gain, but, from a conventional growth-accounting perspective, they are great stuff."
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"Big agriculture gets paid for growing the corn (often subsidized by the government), and the food processors get paid for adding tons of chemicals to create a habit-forming – and thus irresistible – product."
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"Along the way, scientists get paid for finding just the right mix of salt, sugar, and chemicals to make the latest instant food maximally addictive; advertisers get paid for peddling it; and, in the end, the health-care industry makes a fortune treating the disease that inevitably results.”

Monday, February 20, 2012

Wolf in the Henhouse

Methods of Ruler-ship:
“Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.”

Stand for Something or Fall for Anything

Game-Theory:
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”