Wednesday, April 05, 2006
(7:54 PM) | Matt Christie:
communism will be back
Heavy intellectual shitting about on Wednesday will kill blog stats, I know that. And over on Long Sunday, Wednesday is our biggest day. Indeed Wednesdays we average 9,716 page views and 10,897 individual hits (don't ask how). And that's just on our best day! We're a middle-of-the-week blog; Wednesday hits and people long for Sunday. They're ready for something heavy but not too much!Raking leaves today whilst listening to Counting Crows (on my brand new spanking used discman, which they give away now, if you nicely ask), it occurs to me that the war on Terror is correct. Insofar as they gesticulate forever vaguely toward a fear fantastically devoid of any dread, in this, our softly fascistic extension by other means of the war on Communism*, these old warriors are quite correct to worry. It's hard work to fight in this new world, using only paradigms that are obsolete and dead; they must continuously up the stakes! Communism will be back, however, though it will be different and may even be called "democracy", who knows, because this shit is just too ridiculous. Furthermore it is unsustainable. As the movement of November 99 continues to demonstrate, the people are uniting.
When the R. Murrows of the world defend the characters of those besmirched by the McCarthies of the world by describing the unjustly besmirched as good and honest, hard-working and patriotic capitalist citizens, they are nevertheless also wrong. Art is onto-communist. Those who think outside the box are also onto-communists. In fact, anyone who thinks at all may well be onto-communist. Self-expression is certainly onto-communist. People yearn to be, precisely, communist. Onto-communism is a universal.
Bearing all this in mind, I'd like to compile a list of pop songs that best betray, or rather, embody, the onto-communist spirit. What I like best about this project so far is the title, which will be, quite elegantly, "An All American Communist Mix." Ideally, this would be something to share with the entire planet, for which bloggers will at first suffice." However, there are so many songs to choose from that I confess I am a little stuck. So far I have Bruce Springsteen's joint, "57 Channels (and Nothin' On)" to go somewhere in the middle (right after Tupac,
nb. I hear there are also countries outside the USA, and that some of them even have their own music. So perhaps someday this could become an international series.
*"Clinton's" economic boom was just a burp, as everybody knows. Furthermore the "free trade" ushered in was in many respects as 'objectively fascist' (to use Orwell's term) as what everyone who was anyone predicted would inevitably follow.
