“Ah you know the one I’m talking about - ‘We Built This City on Rock n Roll’. If that’s the actual title of it I’m not sure, but you know the one I mean.”
“I do yeah. It’s a great song. What about it?”
“How did they do that?”
“Do what?”
“Build a city on rock n roll.”
“I’ve no idea.”
“It was some achievement though, wasn’t it?”
“It was yeah. It should be replicated.”
“Well, as long as it wasn’t just a dump of a place.”
“That’s true too. There isn’t much point in replicating a dump.”
Some happy source, embedded deep within the entertainment industrial complex, informs us that Bourgeois Intelligentsia have recorded a new song: Rise Up Victim Warriors. Our source describes the song as confrontational, yet gentle and encouraging.
A second song was apparently also recorded during the same sessions: Just When I Think I’ve Had All the Education I Can Take, You Pump With Me Some More.
[The original video I posted is unavailable, so this a shorter version]
Seems to be made of very different stuff than what we’ve come to expect from our political elites - who I think could more generally be described, certainly once they’ve reached the highest levels, as devious, bought-and-sold, misanthropic bullshit artists. There’s no way I ever thought I’d see this level of brutal, unadorned and unapologetic truth come out of the mouth of a head of the US or pretty much any prominent Western nation.
So of course the establishment hates him.
Something funny too about it is the journalist, at a guess, imagined this would be an awkward banana skin of a question for Trump to try to dance around and justify himself . . . But no, didn’t get any embarrassed evasiveness. A very different kind of energy from the norm going on here!
Bourgeois Intelligentsia have been back in the studio, and the fruit of their efforts is a new song: The More Deranged We Become, the More Sure We Are You’re the Problem. The future destiny of the song - to be released as a single, to end up on an album, to be farmed out to some other act - is as yet unknown.
UK Prime Minister Keir Stalin . . . sorry, slip of the tongue, I of course meant to say Starmer . . . but anyway, he (Starmer) recently responded to Donald Trump’s ludicrous question about the supposed troubling situation of free speech in the UK, by eloquently stressing that the UK has a very proud tradition with regards to said issue of free speech, and would safely continue onwards in the vein of said upstanding and proud tradition. As if anyone seriously thought this was a question that needed asking . . . Ridiculous.
And below is a man being arrested by UK police for saying he likes bacon:
To add, I’ve seen the UK police sometimes be affectionately described by members of the grateful British public, in honour of their present and inspirational leader, as Starmtroopers. Oh and also a reminder that Bruce ‘The Boss’ Springsteen during recent concerts in the UK interrupted the wonderful rocking music to helpfully inform the UK public that, four thousand or so miles away, Donald Trump was a threat to free speech. Thankfully I don’t think Bruce (The Boss), during one of these educational interludes, made any public mention of liking bacon, which would have put the UK legal system in a very difficult and potentially embarrassing position with regards of what to do next.
Below, more Starmtroopers arrest a man, this time for calling someone a muppet. So, just to clarify, you can now be arrested for the thoughts or emotions that someone else says they didn’t enjoy experiencing, and which they say you influenced or induced. Or, as with the earlier video, even if someone else and their possibly vulnerable feelings isn’t there, you can still be arrested for the perhaps distressing feelings that this imaginary person might have experienced if they had been there after, for example, hearing you say that you liked bacon. Protect the vulnerable.
I’d say there’s almost no chance whatsoever of airtight hate speech protocols like those being used by the wise and benevolent ‘ruling elites’ in - how shall I put this - an unintentionally bad way.
An American guy succinctly and brilliantly points out the ugly and obvious in the UK.
And with this short clip of the policing of free speech/hate speech/ thought crimes in the UK, where a woman is asked by the policeman was she praying, as in silently praying. Her answer is basically yes, and so she is arrested. As leftist ideology extends towards its destination of absolute control by the agents of the ideology, you’re not even allowed think contrary thoughts. Almost amusingly, because she was praying for the women and their babies near an abortion clinic - not even talking to anyone - because her thoughts were out of alignment, she is targeted and arrested. It’s specifically an antichrist ideology, and to put this in more dramatic lighting, if she had said she was imagining conducting witchcraft rituals on the aborted babies, perhaps even devouring them, this would not for this system be a cause of offence or arrest. It would simply be a matter of the strange but private thoughts in her head, that didn’t threaten the ideology. Silent prayer though did get her arrested.
To add, whether the totalitarian forces manage to push it past all legalistic boundaries and effect a successful prosecution of the silently praying Christian is besides th point, not of course in the sense of her wellbeing, but in the sense that it is perfectly obvious this is what they desire. You will know them by their fruits and actions.
And this brings to mind seeing Bruce Springsteen ranting at audiences in concert in the UK about Donald Trump being a dreadful threat to free speech. That level of wilful ignorance of the real situation is to be honest pathetic to the point of disgusting.
“Serviltiy creeps into the very soul of the bourgeoisie and is increasingly taken for virtue.” Dostoevsky, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions.
I’m tempted to just leave this post with the video and Dostoevsky quite, but add a bit to it . . . (And to add, the use of bourgeois in a descriptive sense below will be much more about being mired in a certain inner state than simply being middle class.)
In the video above, having experienced an allergic reaction to seeing an Irish national flag, or Tricolour as it’s known, a well-educated middle or upper middle class Irish citizen tries to awaken and educate the working class people he is faced with, and raise them up to the more refined level he thankfully inhabits. If they allow themselves to be raised up by the agents of progress, they are justified, if not they will be absolutely vilified.
Alas, after the missionary efforts of the perfectly obedient and right-thinking bourgeois on the bike, who in fairness is quite pleasant and well-intentioned, the native Dubliners in the video perversely choose to behave as living individuals possessed of free will, rather than as abstract digits in an academic textbook, and so don’t give up on their national flag and their sense of being a people - in this case Irish. For the ‘progressive’ person however, now so bloodless and abstract, just a receiver of thoughts to conform with, this more primal state of being a people, as felt by these working class folk, now induces an allergic reaction to his fragile, conditioned self. This sisn’t simply about opinions, but the national flag is experienced on this general abstract person as an aggressive force. It’s too real! And here there is a very telling quote from Nietzsche in the Of the New Idol chapter of Thus Spoke Zarathustra:
Where a people still exists, there the people do not understand the state and hate it as the evil eye.
And so here the working class guys here are not ashamed to exist as a people, and are out of step with the ever-expanding bureaucratic behemoth of the state, while the bloodless bourgeois experiences no such aversion to its dictates. Remember for the progressive ideology, the nationalist sense of identity is seen as an antagonistic rival force of allegiance, and thus the national flag and sense of identity are to be attacked. Thus the progressive man on the bike’s automatic response to his national flag, and which inner reflex he imagines to be a manifestation of virtue. And while I’m here, this from the same passage by Nietzsche:
Confusion of the language of good and evil; I offer you this as the sign of the state. Just see how it lures them. How it devours them, and chews them, and re-chews them.
Finally, to point out the line by one of the Dublin working-class guys, showing he perfectly understands this progressive dynamic of condescension invisible at play, when he says, “Can you explain it to me like I’m a two years old please.” What a brilliant line from someone possessed of a vitality this obedient bourgeois soul has no idea of.
Not long after their last single release, Bourgeois Intelligentsia apparently have another song which they are dying to let loose: Don’t Even Think of Trying to Deprogram Our Offspring.
I wouldn’t say I was fully happy with the above as a finished picture, but I think in continuing on I maybe was as likely to harm it as improve it, so I handed it in to get framed. I think it’s the picture in the same state in the two photos, but quite different looking due to slightly different lighting conditions.
Bourgeois Intelligentsia are just about to release their newest single: Educated Past the Point of No Return. The song is said to be evocative of the great power ballads of the late 1980s, and is intended to induce in the discerning consumer both a dopamine hit of nostalgia as well as an urge towards positive action.
The song is also graced with a b side: Wish I Was Born in the Ghetto.
