Imperial Cocktupus
(Much shit-talking about the Left here so feel I should preface by mentioning The Socialist Party provide great leadership to the Tunnel Picket campaign here in Melbourne. Oh, and I'm a Lefty McLefterson, make no mistake.)
I feel exposed when I try to describe what the Trans Pacific Partnership is and I have roughly thirty days to write a half hour of stand up comedy about the fucking thing. However I can think of worse fates than indulging in the pleasure of Feeling Brainy as I take endless notes and scratch my beard like an engaged thinker taking himself seriously. I won't get a Christmas break, but I will get a holiday from thinking in fucking soundbites.
The TPP is a corporate takeover, a coup, the next logical step in the consumer nightmare, (but a very stoppable juggernaut if people can get organized enough). It's a series of negotiations held in secret between a whole lot of nations that don't matter and the USA. It's an obvious slap in the face to a Left that seems more involved in being offended than fighting tyranny, which the USA embodies, is, revels in and ejaculates all over the Earth like an imperial cocktupus.
Ah the Left, thank fuck for actual people doing stuff because whatever the Left is now it's in no state to fight the TPP into a corner. And then smash it. And then burn the residue. The fucking Left. What a sadface. Thank God I don't have to do a show about the Left and the embrace by the common man of dead-end lotus-eating, we'd be here all day and nothing would get done.
I got involved in Occupy at the moment it arrived out in the streets and will be forever grateful for it. People who have some idea of how to take initiative, who play well with others, who don't get bogged down in what the Left is "supposed" to look like, who in fact are able to drop the whole subject if it means getting shit done? I like those people, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, I'll work with anyone to kill the TPP. I don't care about your ideas, theories or beliefs, I care about what you're going to do. Doing. It's radical stuff.
Cut off from real power the left has settled for moral outrage, streetside performances of upset. Where's the direct action? The environmental movement shows the way: fuck shit up. Take direct action. It just works.
The abject failure of the climate change movement proved that being reasonable gets you nowhere, while radical greenies have been going out into the countryside to teach local people how to fight off mining companies. It's Nimbyism, but if you know of a better way than being directly involved you're well suited to the identity politics circle jerk and should stay there.
The TPP. Hard to describe but easy to know what to do about it: fuck shit up. Target any entity involved in it and expose, weaken and stop them by putting your body on the line.
Fuck it, that's good enough for a blog, I've got to write a script that explains why the TPP is making me all fighty.
I feel exposed when I try to describe what the Trans Pacific Partnership is and I have roughly thirty days to write a half hour of stand up comedy about the fucking thing. However I can think of worse fates than indulging in the pleasure of Feeling Brainy as I take endless notes and scratch my beard like an engaged thinker taking himself seriously. I won't get a Christmas break, but I will get a holiday from thinking in fucking soundbites.
The TPP is a corporate takeover, a coup, the next logical step in the consumer nightmare, (but a very stoppable juggernaut if people can get organized enough). It's a series of negotiations held in secret between a whole lot of nations that don't matter and the USA. It's an obvious slap in the face to a Left that seems more involved in being offended than fighting tyranny, which the USA embodies, is, revels in and ejaculates all over the Earth like an imperial cocktupus.
Ah the Left, thank fuck for actual people doing stuff because whatever the Left is now it's in no state to fight the TPP into a corner. And then smash it. And then burn the residue. The fucking Left. What a sadface. Thank God I don't have to do a show about the Left and the embrace by the common man of dead-end lotus-eating, we'd be here all day and nothing would get done.
I got involved in Occupy at the moment it arrived out in the streets and will be forever grateful for it. People who have some idea of how to take initiative, who play well with others, who don't get bogged down in what the Left is "supposed" to look like, who in fact are able to drop the whole subject if it means getting shit done? I like those people, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, I'll work with anyone to kill the TPP. I don't care about your ideas, theories or beliefs, I care about what you're going to do. Doing. It's radical stuff.
Cut off from real power the left has settled for moral outrage, streetside performances of upset. Where's the direct action? The environmental movement shows the way: fuck shit up. Take direct action. It just works.
The abject failure of the climate change movement proved that being reasonable gets you nowhere, while radical greenies have been going out into the countryside to teach local people how to fight off mining companies. It's Nimbyism, but if you know of a better way than being directly involved you're well suited to the identity politics circle jerk and should stay there.
The TPP. Hard to describe but easy to know what to do about it: fuck shit up. Target any entity involved in it and expose, weaken and stop them by putting your body on the line.
Fuck it, that's good enough for a blog, I've got to write a script that explains why the TPP is making me all fighty.
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