Popular Trends in Emo

[vexaph0d]

many emo / postpunk / neo-new-wave / numetal bands are sincerely set against the system and, to the degree that their pomposity can afford, even the Machine(tm). i do not doubt their angst or the veracity of their lyrics, and i can see plain evidence of their anti-establishment-ism in the spit-polished Hollywood veneer of their music videos.

this, like most things you see on TV, is disasterous.

the Machine is so secure in its grip on modern Western society that it feels completely at home canning and displaying on very large outdoor screens, anthems of its own destruction. it has completely bought the Revolution market; it is turning a profit selling off soundbytes that curse its very existence; even exposing itself for exactly what it IS to millions of people.

the Machine is mocking every attempt to disable or undermine its supremacy. the Con has grown roots so unbelievably deep that it can now sell ITSELF out, and be stronger for it.

some Discordians write tracts and brochures and staple O:M flyers to telephone poles; some of us compile larger written works, create videos; and these are distributed to the general public with as much saturation as our copy-room printshops can muster. but look at the world you're aiming at: it is already full of tales of corporate greed, governmental corruption, and sheep heading blindly for the slaughter. the Machine ITSELF is churning out waves and waves of propaganda in the same vein as ours: propaganda conceived to destroy it, and largely unmodified by the time it reaches the innocent eyes of cabbages in the record stores and newsstands everywhere: everybody already knows the score.

there are solutions that aim more directly at the root of the Problem.




just sayin.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Welcome to the machine! The machine is a joke at the expense of the cabbages, by the cabbages, for the cabbages. When you see through it you might see the funny side. You might be just as likely to be pissed off by it for duping you for so long. Lighten up it's only the end of the world. Again.

[vexaph0d]

Welcome to the machine! The machine is a joke at the expense of the cabbages, by the cabbages, for the cabbages. When you see through it you might see the funny side. You might be just as likely to be pissed off by it for duping you for so long. Lighten up it's only the end of the world. Again.

this is not the end of the world.  if it were the end of the world, i wouldn't be bitching.  this is the sticky gum of the future, the shape of things to come.  this is not an apocalypse because the Apocalypse has been indefinitely postponed for a never-ending rerun of a bad sit-com.

I'm lightened up, by the way.  That's not the issue here.  And there's a difference between lightening up and having a cranium chock full of helium, Stay-Puft.  I'd hate to be responsible for liberating cabbages, considering their lack of bathroom training.  But I'm getting a little tired of seeing this planet roll over the same history again and again.  Megalomania rules my mood today.  So sue me.

[Benaclypse]

Oh, sorry about that whole revolution being televised thing.  Better watch "COPS" instead.

[LMNO]

The revolution will probably be televised.



The revolution will be born in some stoner,Äôs basement.  The revolution will be an ongoing prank in History class.  The revolution will not be defined.  The revolution will be acknowledged with a quiet nod.  The revolution will gain momentum.

The revolution will be identified by recent college grads with Graphic Design and Marketing degrees burning holes in their pockets.  The revolution will be pitched to CEOs of multinational corporations.  The revolution will be analyzed, autopsied, sliced, diced, and stuck to corkboards with pushpins.  The revolution will be cleaned up, polished, waxed, packaged, and tied in a nice bow.

The revolution will be leaked to the media.  The revolution will show up on the catwalks of Paris, Italy, and Japan.  The revolution will have its own burger.  The revolution will have its theme song in heavy rotation on MTV.  The revolution will be on Leno, Letterman, Conan, and The Daily Show.  The revolution will turn down an appearance on Carson Daly.

The revolution will be sold at Hot Topic.

The revolution will be identified as a ,Äútrend,Äù by CNN.  The revolution will be reported on by self-proclaimed Experts In The Field.  The revolution will be blamed for teen pregnancy.  The revolution will be synonymous with the ,ÄúTwinkie defense,Äù in courts of law.

The revolution will host a concert series to help the homeless.  The revolution will be managed by financial advisors, lawyers, ad agencies, and media planners.  The revolution will be publicly traded in the stock market.  The revolution will be remixed by P. Diddy and released exclusively on iTunes.

The revolution will have sub-genres.  The revolution will suffer an anti-revolution backlash.  The revolution will appear on an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger.  The revolution will generate buzzwords that will be used by your parents trying to sound hip.  The revolution will be in a Cadillac commercial.  The revolution will be adopted by pre-pubescent girls trying to act ,Äúgrown up,Äù.

The revolution will be derided by Bill Mahr, Rush Limbaugh, & Al Franken.  The revolution will be mocked by Jon Stewart, Steve Colbert, and Tina Fey.  The revolution will appear on Best Week Ever.  The revolution will become an automatic punchline.  The revolution will be relegated to a question in the next edition of Trivial Pursuit.

The revolution will be televised.  After all, there's market share to consider.

[P3nT4gR4m]

The revolution will revolve. The starving, desperate leaders of the revolution will get fat and rich and the pissants will revolt. The revolution will be destroyed and all its ideas and ideals will be torn down and new ones erected in their place as the leaders of the next revolution get ready to defend their bullshit from another host of wannabe revolutionaries. Revolution is the wheel of the machine.

[Cain]

The Con has always had success at posing as its own worst enemy.  Lets see...Masons (revolutionaries turned into country clubs), Communists (revolutionaries turned into dictators), anarchists (revolutionaries turned into consumers), punk, emo, chavs....the list goes on forever.

Thats why Discordianism must continually change, must stay on the cutting edge, must in fact spit on its own idols and piss on the ideals of the past.  In fact, Discordianism must live up to the mantle of Chaos and be in some respects indefinable.  Because the day you reduce Discordianism to a few buzzwords and a couple of symbols is the day the Con will co-opt it and live off the profits.

[P3nT4gR4m]

We park our cars in the same garage.

There is no such thing as truth. So quit hanging onto it. Quit searching for it. Quit trying to spread it and, for the sake of jehovas bouncing baby bastard, quit fighting over it! Renouce the lie that is truth, in all it's wicked guises, and get on with having some good clean dishonest fun.