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| Posted By: legion rambles on Posted On: Jul 24, 2004 Views: 251 | and speaking of crap just rambling... Speaking of crap, arent those new CD cases the greatest? Those things should be up for some kind of all-time trash awards or something, because they literally fall apart the first time you use them. What a masterpiece of marketing. One shot, oops, you need another. Remember when record albums came with beautiful cover art? That stuff is all collectors items now. CD cases will never be collectors items, theyre not around long enough to collect dust. Everything is crap. Sorry, we cant make it any better. That would cost too much. The stock holders will complain if anything cuts into the profit margin, however miniscule. Greed is King. Bill Gates supposedly has something like a hundred billion dollars. I dont really know what that means, a hundred billion? I cant really relate to those terms. The ridiculous numbers involved seem an absurdity to me. A hundred billion units of what? Value? Are we really supposed to believe Bill Gates is worth a hundred billion dollars? In comparison to what, the rest of us? That would make all of us comparatively worthless. And after piling up a hundred billion has Bill got enough? Nope, of course not. Never. Its never enough. Enough implies there is a ceiling to the stupid capitalists imaginary system of little pieces of paper with printing on them. Stupid capitalists should take a philosophy course. And I bet you can guess what Windows comes packaged in? Yep, a CD case. Big surprise. I have this theory that everything, all manufactured products under the capitalist system eventually turns to crap. Crap will the number one commodity. As the competition finally sorts out and eventual winner in the power struggle, what we are ultimately left with at the top of the pyramid are a small handful of corporations who produce nothing but cheap disposable commodities for a throw away culture. I call it my The crap floats to the top theory of free market capitalism. I bet you all have a hundred billion stories of how you felt cheated out of your money by some unbelievably cheap pieces of crap masquerading as a product? Just the other day a table leg fell right off my 6 year old, $600 dollar cheapo kitchen set. When I picked it up I noticed the thing was attached to the table with, get this, glue and staples. I immediately wondered to myself who on earth thinks glue and staples is a proper way to attach a table leg? Whats next, are we just going to duct tape everything like the Red Green show? Oh well I forgot you get what you pay for whatever that means? I dont know about the rest of you but I think 6 hundred dollars is a quite a bit of money, for a stinkin kitchen table. How much do you have to pay before they start attaching the legs with actual screws? A hundred billion? |
| Posted By: Geordie George Posted On: Jul 24, 2004 Views: 243 | RE: and speaking of crap -Yup, it`s all part of "anti-technology". In cars, computers, hell, just about everything, it`s all made to keep you out, then fall apart (a great metaphor for society) -you don`t buy a product, you buy a service warranty, modern cars show it up best, you can`t learn to maintain a modern car, people don`t have a garage of tools anymore `cause all the bits are electronic chips DESIGNED to be A.) incompatible with any other systems, B.) impossible to tinker with, without specialist (company) training, and of course C.) to fall to bits really quick. Try going to a scrap yard nowadays for engine parts. In any modern car the electronic ignition`s connected to the power steering`s connected to the electronic windows connected to...all designed to keep Joe Blow from knowing anything about his car / P.C. / C.D. player (Classic anti-technology, C.D.s -brought out to stop us evil people recording our own music, another step backwards disguised as progress) City buildings now not only LOOK half finished, they have to keep going back to the manufacturer (-sorry, architect) to keep replacing all those sheets of glass & scaffolding pipe & insulation `cause sheets of glass and scaffolding pipe are such a ridiculously impractical idea for buildings, but at least they`re ugly. It`s the consumer society dream, products you have to keep buying over & over. I foresee future civilisations finding no trace of our wacky time because all the cheap plastic crap will have disintegrated. They`ll find NO TRACE of a civilisation after the fifties (ironic, huh?) Of course, with our swollen population we should have HUGE f***ing buidings made of marble and gold, with jewels all over them, but this headless, mad dog society would rather factory farm the proles in the most horrifyingly wasteful way. But, mebbes like a self fulfilling prophecy they`re proving by their submissiveness & stupidity that it`s all they`re good for. (Wow, I just remembered this was a post about a kitchen table - you`d never guess my hash dealer had`nt brought me anything for almost a week, would you.) |
| Posted By: Rough Posted On: Jul 25, 2004 Views: 233 | Sadly... It's all pretty much a "disposable society" now, from one end to the other...it's across the board. I had an eye opening experience when I got to travel to Italy and Greece a few years ago. God, it was gorgeous. And NO f ucking Burger Kings, Walmarts, RadioShacks, garish neon car washes, strip malls or any of the other prefab bullshiat they throw together in about three weeks! I came back home and everything suddenly looked so plastic and fake. I don't think that anything in my hometown will even be here in 50 years, much less 100. They're actually closing our old Walmart (that's been here all of ten years) to open an even BIGGER one a few miles down the road! I can only hope and pray that the last of those devil spawned, soul devouring Walmarts will be bulldozed into oblivion sometime in my lifetime. They're the most hideous thing that's happened to this country since the Bush Administration. There are structures in Italy and Greece still standing after thousands of years and many homes in Rome and Athens that are hundreds of years old. When I was in Venice though, I did suddenly see the golden arches and just about fell in the canal! Yes, Big Macs even in Venice now! DIO/ROUGH 2004 |