Because He Is Dead, Yet It Needs to Be Said

Posted on Posted in On The Road, The In between

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live. Gil Scott Heron

I was on the road. The world ended, the whatsit occured and all the good people rose up. Bob Dylan had another birthday. Gil Scott Heron had his death day.

You Are What You Memorialize

Posted on Posted in webionaire

You are what you remember, you become what you memorialize. r. laughlin

This past week I travelled, talked. Watched. This past week Bob Dylan got older, Gil Scott Heron didn’t.

I choose to memorialize those two, today, rather than any others. I choose to remember the dreams. I choose to remember those who lived freely. Those who gave expression to others. I choose to remember that Freedom is Free, else it isn’t freedom.

War doesn’t make freedom, it ends it. Remember that, this day. Maybe even tomorrow.

The Revolution will not be realized — r. laughlin

Thank you from the highway.

The Birth Of Err.nomics

Posted on Posted in econocaste, grammar of gimme

In the beginning we teach with pictures and words. The student is graded on grasp and agreement.
Here is a clip from a book that was too complex (as its author and publisher offer as explanation for its low market following) for students to understand.
mcnomics.pngNotice how clear the drawing is. That makes it easy to accept as true, even complete. The abstraction makes its shadow, the application obvious.

Consider though the words that are slipping into your mind. The bold statement seems a truth by definition.

A scarce thing is limited.

In human terms(disparity of scales within space and time), all things are limited. Most calculations are finite. We expect “an” answer, and we get it, “32”. With the example offered, by the way this example is meant as a real world example to students, and as an example of reality, of shared experience, it assures easier agreement with a conclusion. “I can’t be fooled if I use my own life to gather… from.”

… is the most books you can CONSUME because you are not infinately WEALTHY.

Here consumption is braided into wealth (money-cost based market)

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Thereby this teacher has demonstrated to us, that consumption is limited, not by books but by our wealth. S/he will also prove that we will have to realign our wealth among various items which we will consume by owning them.

And poof just like that, the demon of err.nomics has taken away any and all other ways of thought about resources. About consumption. They are all replaced with the other notion.