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"Oh Shit! ... GMO Food Sterilizes People ... And It's Really A Form of Population Control?"
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
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Were We All Kunta Kinte? Or Are We Also Mansa Musa?
Barry Goldwater 1909-1998
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"It Is Easier To Change A Man's Religion Than It Is To Change His Diet"
Private Prison Industry
2,000,000 human beings in American prisons and counting
IS THIS LITTLE GUY A PERSON?
The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Louis Pasteur
"The Microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Beverly Johnson. Beverly Hills. 1978
"Bra! Tell Me About It!"
"Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes."
Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
Denmark Vesey For President 08
1. Troops Out Of Iraq Immediately. Like By Monday. 2. Money Owed To Haliburton and War Contractors Be Given Directly To The Iraqi People 3. Complete Electoral Reform 4. No Corporate Conglomerate Will Be Allowed To Control More Than 5% Of News Market 5. Federal Reserve Abolished 6. For-Profit Prison Industry Abolished
*George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, critic
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness... If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... The great enemy of clear language is insincerity... The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it... To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle... For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
God Don't Make No Mistakes
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Great Grandmother Harris
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Apples and oranges DV
Art to Art
Expression to Expression
Metaphor to Metaphor
Poet to Poet
Poem to Poem
Men to Men
Why can't they be compared?
Comparing Lil' Wayne to Keats is like comparing Kobe Bryant to Pistol Pete Marovich, for better or worse. Except, maybe, if Keats were alive, he may be a hellavu rapper. You think?
different Era, different language, different style.
We compare things of different era's, different languages, and different styles all the time.
Who says an apple can't be compared to an orange?
Naturally you do not suggest we only compare things that are the same.
One man's "Stream of Consciousness" is another man's "Freestyle".
I say they measure up nicely, and Lil Wayne blows Keats and James Joyce out of the water.
It's like comparing Bob Cusey to Ray Allen.
Different era, different game, different style.
But the same ball and the same hoop.
no pablo neurda for sure
let alone iambic pentameter
I dunno, i'm inclined to give this one to Keats. Might just be the selection of verses. I'm not too crazy about this part of Wayne's "Milli." (And yes, I admit to the bias of being a huge Cory Gunz fan and not having quite figured out why he cut CG's dynamite verses from the Carter 3. Afraid of being outshined by Daniel son, mayhaps?)
Do bear in mind that in Keats' day, the words he's using probably meant many more things than they do today. Pay special attention to words like "Pleasure" and "fancy" that hint at double meanings.
And yes, I agree, this is an interesting comparison. I still maintain that hip hop artists aren't getting nearly the credit they deserve for keeping alive the otherwise slowly dying art of poetry.
Heh, upon second reading...
"The sear faggot blazes bright..."
See, he's got the raging homophobia part of hip hop down pat. Why can't these two be compared?
(and yes, i'm being facetious, I know it meant something different then. A group of sticks, I believe, used for kindling.)
Keats sucked.
But Lil' Wayne isn't even the best rapoet...or modern-day poet.
Most of the best ones I've read are actually no-namers. Although a few big names like Pac had serious floetry.
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