Suck On This EP37 : Monologue
With another summer approaching and my springtime allergies smacking me in the face like a pie meant for Bill Gates, it has brought back so many memories from my childhood this past week.
Summers in the Northeast are special because some of us only get a few days of “good” weather. For me, nothing could be better than getting out of school, going to the local pool with my friends, and going to concerts. Now that I've been an adult for awhile that feeling of something to look forward to during the year has faded. Even the “good” weather days aren't something to enjoy when you have to go to work anyway. What do we have to look forward to anymore?
We are fairly optimistic in our approach here at The New Prisoners and we have gotten some great feedback from listeners out there who may have needed to hear that kind of message. I'm glad we sent it and I am thrilled that it has been received by all of you that have shared that with us, but if we are to all look forward to anything politically in the U.S. or even the world, what would that be?
How bout consequences, pain, justice to all that have put our world in such a terrible state for the past several years if not decades?
That sounds pretty damn satisfying thing to me. Still not enough though. As we all have probably learned from some of our favorite super hero stories that the bad guys always seem to come back. So how do we make sure that whomever steps out of the wormhole connected to Hell at CERN finds themselves powerless to put us back in lockdown, strip us of our rights, and experiment on all of us again?
Simple, we build a new generation of freedom fighters, wise asses, and shit talkers just like us. How can we do that?
Through a cultural awakening.
There is no one simple solution to our problems. Hell, try to explain the events of the past 3 years now of this pandemic to someone not in the know and see if you can do it in just a few sentences. Our story can't be told in a tweet or a haiku. For someone to really understand what has happened to our society, our culture, of the past couple years could fill a book series from Lifetime and we would still have to leave certain things out. Understanding isn't reached in a single moment, or even after finishing an encyclopedia worth of information. That's why some of our more scholarly friends here at The New Prisoners along with us continue to write and produce content because we are always looking for that greater understanding too.
Our brains are never full. Our work is never done. As long as there is tyranny on earth we have a mission to eradicate it but life is short and evil like that can last seemingly forever. The answer to it is teaching others the ropes.
I want you all to think back to the moments that awakened you to what was happening in the world. Like, what was really happening, not whatever was being talked about in the mainstream. What was that moment?
For me, it was finding alternative media in 2016. With the Russiagate Hoax in full swing I watched friends and family gobble up the bullshit like Pakman on a tear. Everyone was a Russian Bot, Trump stole the election, and all the crazies that voted for Hillary took their shit ideology and brought it to corporate America.
The propaganda campaign against a very flawed and inexperienced Trump didn't really garner much sympathy from me at the time, I was more concerned about what that propaganda was doing to the culture around me. Then I started listening to Joe Rogan and found Sargon of Akkad.
Sargon or Carl Benjamin floored me with his performance on Joe's show. He was unlike any other guest in his approach. He talked shit on everything, including video game journalists for their terrible political views that they were pushing on everyone. Joe was so enthralled that I remember Carl missing his plane back home to be able to stay longer.
Since then, that episode, and many others have been pulled from Spotify. Why pull an old episode like that?
Because it had too much truth in it. Sargon's attitude and knowledge base can not be let out of its cage by our powers that be and allowed to infect the others like us. Welp, sucks for them because its too fucking late. Thinking back though I was in the right place at the right time but I also had the right mindset.
Even as a child I couldn't wait for certain songs to come on the radio. One of those was Nine Inch Nail's “Head Like A Hole.”
I would ask my Dad to crank it as we would roll up to school, thanks Dad, and the vibe of that song still sticks with me all these years later. Some of you won't like the tone or the other material Trent Reznor has done. Can't really see most of my conservative or religious listeners getting down with much of The Downward Spiral but check out these lyrics and tell me that they don't still hit hard:
Head like a hole
As black as your soul
I'd rather die
Than give you control
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
Its that energy that still motivates me. From a young lad till now. What will it be for our children or grandchildren? What can it be for the people in your life that have been oblivious up until now?
Whatever those moments are I encourage you to share them. With the people around you. There's nothing necessarily wrong with a simple pop song, a digestible story, or a action flick but there is some real power in anything that can awaken the spirit of Liberty in the unsuspecting mind. Now go forth an awaken the others, we have an army that will last for generations to build. One mind at a time.