Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Icarus asking why # 1

I am sitting watching the news watching thuggery! Kids ok, we can cope with that but more who should know better. Capitalism gone mad, its like the novel perfume where the shit is hitting the fan and everyone is grasping for a piece of it, a t-shirt here and a single trainer there, a tele here and a 'dummy' blackberry phone there, someone said on radio its Martin Luther King all over again - what a lot of rubbish that is. There is no socialist agenda here, it is capitalism gone sour, the wanna-haves need a bigger fix. This is my song for this evening, I am so sad because Foucault and Bourdeiu would be saying oh, merde... what is happening in the UK tonight and this week is just an extension of football hooliganism - arsehole boys out for a fight and a free Bench t-shirt (which are 50p t-shirts selling at £20 for no reason except profit riding on the back of cheap labour). Jeez, I am so fucking annoyed that we have to spend time trying to rationalise teenage boys with, what my Dan just called, an I.Q., of 4 or 5 and no interest in anything except themselves. There are reasons to exhibit this kind of hostility. Not having a flatscreen tele, or new trainers is not it... sigh, problem is,  in the UK we do birthday cards and Christmas and christenings and get Mum and Nana tattoos, all the cute stuff, but sometimes, under the surface, people just ain't no good - tonight I am a very unhappy socialist because while these kids don't know it yet, the Tories love this, hose them down, duff them up, lock them up shit (even though they and their polices are the root of it) - tonight I donated £100 to save the children in Africa as my own act of rebellion - sigh and fuck it - sigh again... wearing my hat indoors for 'singing the blues, with love...'