I made a millennial’s head explode when I explained to her that even Youtube stars are slaves to Google. They are floating a multi-billion dollar platform, self producing their own shows they give to a platform that pays them what they could make on salary for Amazon.
Oh Momma’…sweet Freedom.
This is a scam. These social media platforms are slave ships.
The state of the music industry and entertainment is garbage. The only glimmer of hope is how good the writing is on competing platforms creating serials like HBO, Netflix, and Amazon, but that is just a war to lose the most money to dominate the future of media.
A vanity pissing contest project for billionaires that would rather make space ships than save their own cities they pay no taxes to, and say they are the Liberals. They wave rainbow flags and give lip service though. Because the optics.
It’s only about the optics. I see the tent cities popping up in their cities. What are we really going to do to fix this when the problem is the economic end game? The borrowed time?
Movie theaters are dying, the malls are dying, self checkout is trash, musicians are being sued for creating songs that are completely different but sound similar to hundreds of other songs. The internet isn’t actually awesome. It’s extremely expensive to access with these $1000 phones that mysteriously stop working and slow down when the new sh☆ttier version of the same thing drops each year.
People are so ready to defend progress in an era where all social media gave us was Donald Trump and fights with our friends and neighbors.
Someone told me Facebook LIVE was essential to women’s safety because some women have used the feature to broadcast their walk home for the purpose of safety. Which is a f☆cking dystopian nightmare that the thing keeping people “safe”; something that didn’t exist a couple years ago, is also the weapon that is destroying the fabric of society.
So the platform that helped Donald Trump is providing a service to help keep us safe?
When was his account going to be suspended for 30 days for cyber-bullying and hate Speech?
Mark me safe from none of this f☆ckery.
It’s like saying Mercury is good for people because it really helps with Syphilis. Which it didn’t. But it did seem to do wonders for Leprosy, which is the disease most similar to what is happening to society as a whole.
No one seems to want to acknowledge that the Presidency of Donald Trump was a sort or Death sentence we only have been half heartily trying to commute as we argue amongst ourselves in this hellscape of stupidity where Pizzagate and Uranium One was a thing.
Someone tell me the Earth is flat and we didn’t land on the moon, and the timing of our sunsets in Ben Franklin’s almanac is part of the conspiracy.
Brains are rotting here on the vine.
OK back to a world where every month the rent rises and more people that would have thrived in the 1990s become homeless and are tossed into a garbage can where all of our homes become mini hotels to feed billionaires.
This timeline sucks. Wake up.
OK back to stories about my abs and success, success, success.
Be careful what you call progress in a society that is sliding into Fascism on an in the park home run.
I am not asleep. Are you asleep? I may play the game. But it’s just a game. And when they abandon Miami in your lifetime, it’s over baby. Remember that it was completely unnecessary.
Billionaires convinced us to burn the fuel and showed us commercials about how they were searching for alternatives generations after killing electric cars and pulling up trolley tracks. Propaganda works, Revolutions are rivers of blood. Humans do nothing until is is too late and capitalize on what’s left that can be stolen.
Off to whistle sweet melodies that some will say later are stolen because of some pasted on later synth riff.
Because trash. This is what these mental share cropping idiots call progress in their swarms of Twitter Storms. The drunken mobs and witch burnings are repeated nightly, but the traditional Pogroms of yesteryear never had the optimization of clickbait.
Yet I remember the world before this one. I am not saying the Dewey decimal system was better. But these dystopian calculations and the decay of common sense in the blitz to digitized polarization of “us vs us” to the benefit of them, is worse than many novels had imagined. Oh, Cassandra.
– Musician and writer Davin Michael Stedman has many ventures, such as the AMAZING blog, 100milesofmusic.com. Davin’s recent song has become a global earworm and Caribbean dancehall hit. Listen here on Reggaeville: DAVIN MICHAEL STEDMAN & ANTHONY RED ROSE – FREE YOUR MIND FEAT. SLY & ROBBIE WITH LENKY MARSDEN. The video is now available on Youtube: Tuff Gong Television. His single with British band Sherlock Soul is available here.
