Blogs by cribbooky

My browser home page greeted me this morning with a featured headline which announced that a Facebook campaign successfully placed the #1 "Christmas song" on the UK charts as "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against The Machine (which totally rocks!). The song has been off the charts for a while as it was released over a decade ago, but it was selected because it is about taking a moral stance against authority. The Facebook users rallied to encourage participants to download the symbolic tune in order to bump the one that was the most promising candidate from the #1 spot. Why? Because the original #1 song candidate was one that originated from Simon Cowell's X-Factor, and it is considered to be manufactured pop from the big business machine. I can feel the anger!!!

The news created conflict in my head because even without my first sip of coffee, I realized that it was evidence that the internet could be used to effect change through social networking (a tactic in use by the US Stakeholders Movement). This gave me hope, which is good. On the other hand, it was successful for a cause that, in my humble opinion, ranks a tad below a silly little thing I refer to as THE ORGANIZED INTERNAL COLLAPSE OF THE USA. The priorities just seemed out of whack. It's sort of like stopping to change the television channel on your way out of a burning house, hence, the conflict.

So in my uncaffeinated fog, I pondered this matter as a sanity check. I perform sanity checks quite frequently because when something seems strange to me, I do not assume that the strangeness originates from "out there". I am still uncertain, as things often turn out to be exactly as I had perceived them. This implies that strange is the normal reality so that if I perceive it to be abnormal, I might quite possibly be insane, but I digress. First, a quick surf around the news pages. Yep, it's not a hoax. It really happened in this reality so now I must deal with it.

My guess is that Simon Cowell comes off as unlikable, even though "based on my perception", he appears to be much more honest and direct than any breathing politician. He is blunt, and his hit cranking show represents the music industry establishment. Music is cool, and its market should not be manipulated so everyone got pissed. Simon provides a face to personify the evil, and a movement is born. Okay, that part makes sense so I am probably not a lost cause, and my coffee will not leap out of the cup, shapeshift into a mermaid and begin juggling kittens. That is always unsettling.

It occurred to me that liberals do not like conservatives because of a perception that conservatives are the controlling establishment. This perception has been crafted by the best spin doctors (smooth move, lefties!). They personified it with Bush's face and spouted a bunch of oppression rhetoric and got some people very angry at him, I mean at conservatives. Was there really intel about WMDs in Iraq? How can I know? Conservatives are not a collective mind as commonly believed. We are mostly a bunch of individuals that pay our own way, and would prefer that everyone do the same. What I do know is that it served as an excellent rallying point that divides our country so it benefited both sides of the bipartisan shell game.

Now that I understand the mechanism, I can employ it. Therefore, please help me spread the rumor that Simon Cowell is not only the antichrist and stealer of all lost socks, but that he personally loathes the US Stakeholders Movement and is currently organizing a secret counter movement that will eventually crown him king of the USA.

Sorry, Simon. It's for a worthy cause.

Be nice.