IT'S YOUR FAULT
Had enough, have we?
We don't see why. It's your fault in the first place.
It's entirely your fault your life sucks. It's your fault that you have to
depend on alternating stimulants and depressants (coffee and alcohol) just to
get through the day. It's your fault that you paid a fortune for college and settled for a job you can't
stand. It's your fault that your girl/boyfriend can't stand your irrationally
dependent behavior that you use to make up for a complete lack of personality.
It's your fault that there's nothing good on TV. They're only making
exactly what you're paying for.
It's your fault the entertainment industry is in the pathetic shape it's in.
It's your fault Marilyn Manson thinks he can breathe life back into rock'n'roll
by imitating a pseudo-goth Ziggy Stardust, and not even very well at that.
It's your fault that Puff Daddy wouldn't write a song on his own even if he had
the talent. It's your fault that Alanis Morissette and Hootie and the Blowfish
are selling #1 records even though you claim to hate them. If you hate them,
stop buying their records over and over again. It's your fault that the show
Daria is getting top ratings by blowing up who you are and spitting it back in
your faces as you sit there pretending to "get it" when you really don't,
because if you did that crappy show wouldn't be so popular. It's your fault
that no one can take music in any new directions, because you write off every
new thing you hear as either "pretentious" or "whiny",i.e., the media hasn't
told you to like it yet. It's your fault that the bands you make fun of your
less popular friends for listening to are the same bands you'll be shelling out
$40 a seat to see, simply because mainstream radio finally got around to
playing them or because you saw them in a Mountain Dew commercial.
It's your fault that literature, art, and poetry today sucks. It's your fault that Ram
Dass is actually studied in college, and that someday John Grisham and Stephen
King will be simply because we don't have anything else. It's your
fault that any idiot who writes anything with staggered lines and no puncuation
thinks he has the right to call it poetry. Sorry, it isn't "postmodernism"
and it isn't "immediate and raw", it's "crap" and "crap" only; stop wondering
why no one "understands" you. It's your fault that someone will charge you
$450 for a photograph simply because it's in black and white (and therefore
art). It's your fault that people slap random blobs
of paint on a canvas, give it a mystical-sounding title like serenity IV,
and you'll pay thousands of dollars for it. Abstract art once had a point, and
it's your fault that abstract art has come to be defined as "a product of the
untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered".
It's your fault bipartisan democratic government isn't working. It's your
fault that you blindly whine about "if you don't love America, then leave" without
bothering to think about what that statement means--because you heard some nationalist
use it as a slogan and you're scared of looking like you "won't play ball".
It's your fault McCarthyism existed, and still exists in so many forms we can't
possibly stop it, and probably wouldn't if we could. It's your fault that we
don't know what the government isn't telling us unless it's presented in the
form of entertainment.
It's your fault that you're driving overpriced sport utilities that have never seen the
light of gravel. It's your fault you're paying $75 for a t-shirt in order to
be some idiot's billboard. It's your fault that for the sake of looking trendy
you're allowing Starbucks to ruin the lives of small crop farmers by price-
fixing, just so you can have a "cafe mocha" (read: it means you really hate
coffee so you'll take the drink with chocolate in it to cover the taste).
"Stop saying you haven't done anything wrong. Because frankly, you haven't done
much of anything."
-KMFDM
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