tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post3079600946867195926..comments2023-11-05T05:17:45.320-05:00Comments on Model Minority "Thugs, Feminists and Boom Bap": American Idol IllusionsM.Dot.http://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-85755883275874185052007-08-31T14:55:00.000-04:002007-08-31T14:55:00.000-04:00@ Rioting: no one wants to be a hero (the fatality...@ Rioting: no one wants to be a hero (the fatality of that position is too great for most) so we rather champion someone or ppl we see willing to risk it all.<BR/><BR/>it's the same reason why folk in my home country don't riot either despite some of the nonsensical things govt done did.neohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00482376355312549331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-28474349193297840152007-08-31T13:51:00.000-04:002007-08-31T13:51:00.000-04:00YOUR NAME IS HELLA FRESH.Everyone is equal in a po...YOUR NAME IS HELLA FRESH.<BR/><BR/>Everyone is equal in a political sense, but in the real world they are not.<BR/>==========<BR/>Political as in voting?<BR/>Or political as in ....?<BR/><BR/>People aren't rioting in the street because they're too busy surviving.<BR/>==========<BR/>I feel you.<BR/>I know this.<BR/><BR/>But.<BR/><BR/>I look at how combustible it is<BR/>in a John Q sense.<BR/><BR/>Then I see the folks rioting in South American, Western Eurpope, South East Asia, Haiti....<BR/><BR/>In our situation we have young bucks who are functionally literate.<BR/><BR/>Black, Latino, Asian and White.<BR/><BR/>Crazy consumerizm at 'em erry day.<BR/><BR/>And guns GALORE.<BR/>Thats a combustible combination.<BR/><BR/>I know folks are working.<BR/>The costs of living in the Bay/East Cost is a material fact in my daily life.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps what is more telling is that folks are medicated too.M.Dot.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05113752779973426025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14243811.post-68021220185189531002007-08-31T12:39:00.000-04:002007-08-31T12:39:00.000-04:00People need something to which they can aspire. Th...People need something to which they can aspire. The "American Dream" is the standard (money, success, fame, glamour). It is stupid to think that everyone has the same potential. It is a myth created in a liberal, democratic society. Everyone is equal in a political sense, but in the real world they are not. I cannot do what gymnasts do, since I haven't had the proper training... and, perhaps, even if I had had the proper training there's still a big chance I wouldn't have cut it for lack of talent, or not being limber enough. We must break free from myth-making; turning these success stories into legends of fairy-tale-like proportions (they lived happily ever after...)<BR/><BR/>People aren't rioting in the street because they're too busy surviving. If you have to spend the majority of your energy into wondering how you're going to put food on the table, you won't have any energy left to think about pursuing a career. The arts can only thrive in an advanced social climate in which people have ample leisure time to think up great things, in which they have no worries about these basic necessities: food, shelter. When you're making ends meet, that's all you do... you don't worry about what's in the middle.<BR/><BR/>E.Frankie, Le Levier de Chemisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06630488464097717411noreply@blogger.com