Everyone's got to start somewhere...

Well, where to start?

The suburbs, of course. Slowly covering the earth, eating up everything that makes the world interesting and leaving nothing but banality in its place. They are symbolic of the labour aristocracy- the bourgeois bribing the first-world proletarians with the modern equivalent of 'bread and circus'- that is, 'welfare and football'.

Now, I want to qualify these statement before you interpret them. I'm no primitivist- I'm not suggesting that we go back to living in thatched-roof cottages, and abandon all of the technology we've developed. Neither am I a Maoist-Third-Worldist. I don't 'hate everyone in Amerika'- I realize that even despite these concessions, these material comforts, capitalism still takes it's toll on the first-world working class, one way or another.

Certainly the calorie-expenditure is nowhere that of the third world; we aren't working nonstop harvesting raw materials for peanuts.
However, look at all the people taking antidepressants, the high rates of suicide and obesity- instead of working us to death, they kill us by feeding us cheap but unhealthy slop and indoctrinating us with this individualist ideology that, while rewarding for the few that make it, leads to nothing but unreachable expectations and inevitably, disappointment and self-destruction for the many who crack under the pressure.

This illusion of middle-class prosperity needs to be torn down if progress is ever going to be made in the first world. Perhaps this economic crisis will do so, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Well, that's my two cents on that subject.

Aside from political ranting, I'm planning on covering several other subjects with this blog- my criticism and comments on various art and music, livejournal-esque whining about my alienation and social problems (sorry, I've got to let it out somewhere), and posting my own work, which I guarantee will be super kick-ass awesome.

However, I've got work in half an hour. These things will have to wait.