I Pledge Allegiance To Fear (943 hits)
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Submitted by LSD (View user info) at 2006-07-13 22:38:14 EDT
I Pledge Allegiance To Fear
The words reek of capitalism. They bounce onto my screen with a catchy jingle.
Another kid's turned up dead in a backyard pool. Another soldier's died. Big problems...
Big concepts -
Life, death, right wrong, right and left, truth and news. Big concepts.
Big deal.
"Jesus Christ! Come in here!" the bastard in the next cube screams as though whatever little shitbit of info-news he has to share with me could change my perception of reality.
Turns out, some pregnant mother got shot. Great. I walked out, furious at the fucker and his beloved media for ruining my morning. Later, I took some acid and sat alone in my assigned residential block, thinking wasted thoughts in my dry, sour brain.
After I finish being told about a dying kid with no limbs, there's an add for the newest SUV, a burger franchise, and then a suicide bombing.
Then a coke ad.
You can't escape the shit. It yells and heckles and claws at you from newspapers. It burps out of radio speakers, it crawls into every god damn living room in this ruined nation. If you aren't hearing terrorists, you're seeing them. If you don't have AIDS or SARS or some other strain of infectious BLSHT, you've got cancer because the McDonalds execs decided carcinogens taste great with their generic "meat" and chemical smoothies which never melt.
I turn the dial on my radio and I hear about a gang shooting. I know the suspects before they're announced: two black males, between 17 and 35, 4'11'' to 6'9''.
Three and a half minutes of factory-pressed pop music later and I find out about a baby locked in a car dying of heatstroke.
Is this shit supposed to be entertaining? Am I supposed to just sit back and accept these feelgood stories about autistics and sympathy stories about death? I have news: tragedy is not entertainment. Tragedy isn't even tragedy anymore now that you've desensitized our people.
Am I supposed to accept the fact that the media now controls my daily MOOD with these "stories"?
No, don't answer. I have some more questions for you, info-news.
How much were you paid for your soul?
Is it worth the lives you've capitalized on?
Is it worth the moral decay you've caused?
I'll tell you what its worth: It's worth about $65000 every other quarter plus vacations and a dental plan.
But you know something? Even that aint worth SHIT.
User Reviews
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-07-14 22:39:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
This...
Is better than most of your stuff.
But that's like saying horse shit is better than cow shit.
Oh well.
Submitted by HHH (user info) at 2006-07-14 21:57:13 EDT (#)
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Oh fuck off jonnyx I'm sick of your shit.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-07-14 17:00:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2006-07-14 12:54:08 EDT (#)
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Try reading a book.
The day you listen to people's crap is the day you lose your identity.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2006-07-14 10:53:31 EDT (#)
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Get back to the drive thru window, Chachi. The line is backing up.
Submitted by Poots (user info) at 2006-07-14 10:50:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
blast meant to give a +2.
Submitted by Poots (user info) at 2006-07-14 10:48:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-07-14 04:50:49 (#)
Ranking: 2
Alright; get some sleep, get some excersice and then get out of the house and find a girlfriend. At the very least start driving a taxi cab and tell your fares that "one day a rain will come to wash the scum off of the streets".
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or start an undeground boxing club with your imaginary friend and make soap.
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2006-07-14 08:09:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
All media persons should be killed. From the president of the company to the gopher that gets their lattes.
Slaughter them all.
Then report on that.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2006-07-14 05:14:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I really hate the way the news always ends with a "Nice" story.
I fucking hate TV, I'm not going to say I don't watch it because that would be nigh on impossible but I do hate it.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2006-07-14 04:50:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Alright; get some sleep, get some excersice and then get out of the house and find a girlfriend. At the very least start driving a taxi cab and tell your fares that "one day a rain will come to wash the scum off of the streets".
Submitted by eleanor_rigby (user info) at 2006-07-14 04:21:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-07-14 03:52:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Tragedy isn't even tragedy anymore now that you've desensitized our people."
We have to be desensitised to it in some respects, purely for our own survival. If the full weight of every death, disease or disaster that happened today (just today) hit us, we'd cease to be able to function. Empathy would cripple us and we'd do nothing but stare into space, unable to process our world. We haven't had enough time to work out how to deal with a tribe that suddenly numbers 6 billion.
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2006-07-14 02:25:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
it's disturbing how normal it all seems...every now and then, though, the absurdity sinks in and i feel sick
Submitted by RenTheUnsightly (user info) at 2006-07-14 01:55:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you made me scared of looking out the window.
Submitted by awesome_face (user info) at 2006-07-14 01:14:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
UNBAN LSD!!!
Submitted by the_lone_stranger (user info) at 2006-07-14 00:42:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
UNH! BRING THAT SHIT IN!!!
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-07-14 00:35:46 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-07-14 00:29:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
MINDBLOWING
No, really.
Submitted by extacy_red (user info) at 2006-07-14 00:24:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I propose a toast.
Of some shitty beer I only buy because the voices on the box of lights tell me to.
Submitted by Darth_Famine (user info) at 2006-07-13 23:08:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
exactly why I don't watch much tv or listen to radio.