Work for change.
Let me make this clear, if you aren’t accepting folks as they come out of the oven or remake themselves, you’re not our friends. Yet.
I say yet because I wasn’t always the way I am. Maybe there’s hope for you too. I’m not a “shut off permanently” kind of person. Folks grow. I hope they learn. I have.
Work for diversity.
If you don’t think folks have a right to be on the outside the way they feel on the inside, you’re part of the problem. Humans are wonderfully diverse. I truly feel one of my priorities as an artist is celebrating that diversity. It’s cool. I like new things, nice people, and learning.
Work for discovery.
Just because you can’t see how much you’re missing out, doesn’t mean you have to stay on that road. There’s a beautiful world of human personality out there to explore once you stop being an asshole. I’m rooting for you.
Work for entertainment.
I used to say if you’re MAGA don’t listen to us. But now I urge you to try. There’s lots of heart and story in our lyrics that could open the right people up to other folks existing. That’s good. Of course I want that.
Work at priorities
I live a contractor lifestyle so I’m on and off again with work. One of the things I’ve noticed living this way is work often involves doing things you aren’t proud of to feed your family. Imagine who is able to get one over on ya if a job takes all your time and brain-space. You’re practically waiting in line for the next thought implant. If you don’t even know WHAT is important, you’re not going to know WHO.
Consumers. See, even AI is programmed to tell you what you want, or whatever it thinks you want. It’s programmed to do that over telling the truth. Our little phones ask us hundreds of questions all the time about what we prefer. By answering them, we’ve made our world smaller. We don’t get what we need, only what we want. It makes me sick.
Work for reality.
Imagine just wishing away covid, prejudice and civil rights, mass shootings, corruption on the highest level, vaccines, etc.. does wishing those things away make them go away? What do you think you’re doing with like/dislike/scrolling/comments/attention? You’re empowering those with terrible agendas. Hell, I probably am too. No judging. You can’t walk three feet without giving money to billionaires around here.
Everything I buy, food, prescriptions, rent, car, lots of music stuff, computer, I mean everything, money trickles on up to billionaires. There’s no way to avoid it where I live, unless I’m rich. Even then, why not buy from my rich friends?
Work at thinking things through.
Even boycotts are massive ad campaigns. They will not hurt the billionaires you’re after. At best, they get folks like you fired. If I owned a business, I’d want a boycott every once in a while, seems to help business. Have they worked before? Sure. But the wealth of the elite has exploded since. They’re not hurt by boycotts anymore, and isn’t that who you want to “pay?” Boycotts only serve to break-up the good guys. People bitch at each other for using the wrong tuna. That helps them. Not to mention, if I’m feeling poor, which I am, I’m going to buy the cheapest I can live with anyway. That’s only being responsible.
Work at thinking for yourself.
Folks think education is there to make you memorize or learn useless things. This is a huge problem. The goal of education is to help folks think for themselves, not think what I want. See, we all think we’re at least masters of our house or some shit. So even though we raise another human, they’re our human. That notion must be smashed. Your children belong to the world, if they belong to anyone. Much like phones, raising kids has gone from being a window to the world to being a mirror.
When I was in my 20’s we wanted our children to be smarter than us. Now most parents I meet want a reflection. It’s ubiquitous.
Work at being better.
Wanna’ help? Demand truth. See, what we all could use is a heavy dose of reality and rational thinking. We’re damn near allergic to that at this point.
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