| Ani DiFranco – Fuel Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[angelonroute666:46558] in the lines about choosing lipstick colors and different fonts, ani is caricaturing (or really just observing) that the culture industries like advertising or now social media keeps us stupid and compliant in two ways: first -- to your question-- by cultivating in masses of human being all sorts of skills and competencies that can be extremely refined while also being incredibly dumb. Like, if someone showed any of us two different font alphabets and we had to pick which one would go on a "20% more" sign and which on a "Teriyaki" menu, we'd know the right answer immediately. But if I asked, for example, the names of our Congressional reps, or about the Reconstruction era in our hometown, or about where our food comes from....we'd have a tough time. Similarly, culture industry loves to give us all sorts of meaningless or superficial 'choices' between shitty options-- whore lipstick colors, for example, or one bullshit parasitic health insurance scam and another --- thereby providing the illusion of personal freedom and control, when really all this choice is NOT in fact optional; it's totally exhausting; the terms of the choice are unchosen; the difference between options is fraudulent or negligible; and all this absurd 'choosing' keeps us busy and dizzy so we forget history and believe lies. | |
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