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Fingerbanger Friday: Grey Matter Shaken by the Storm

January 25th, 2013 |

Recently I was thinking that perhaps that the most detrimental condition to a man is comfort. I’d go so far as to say I believe it’s almost the most singular goal of modern living humans to secure for themselves the highest level of comfort they can…for as long as they can. We have built society upon the ideological foundation of secure comfort in the “American Dream” with the expectation of attainability so certain that it is perhaps ultimately perceived as deserved. And to that end we have obtained comfort to a degree that all the history of kings on earth combined couldn’t have imagined; such comfort that we think nothing of our ability to have a couple dozen fresh fruit varieties on our counters in the middle of winter, such comfort that perhaps a neighbor with rust on their vehicle could be seen as struggling, and such comfort that popular media stalks the state of famous peoples lives more than the state of humanity. The power we posses in our pocket cellphone alone is so historically stunning that it’s easy to be ignorant that running hot water has really only been around since the turn of the century. Material comforts aside, how many of us plow a field? Cut down trees to build our house? Or sit on a barstool at the end of a hard day of sitting at a desk? Each progressive achievement of the next new comfort so spectacularly widens the illusory gap to past conditions that it seems obligatory that we attack and mock those that even suggest maintaining an awareness that the current state of existence is not a not a birth right, but only a temporary condition. And in the off occasion our comfort is shown to be an illusion, there’s little resilience left in us, only shock and outrage that indeed bad things still exist in our world.

Ultimately it’s this gap between the past and present conditions that as a society, and also individually, we’re so ill prepared to deal with that keeps us from making a stand against the corptocracy, the political corruption, the erosion of liberties, and so forth. We’re afraid to stop the ride because the cognition of what might be a hard reality where there is much less comfort is too daunting, too diminishing to our pride, too unfamiliar to be realistic. Taking into consideration the modern weaponry of our military, taking a stand might even be impossible. Here we need to believe the man behind the curtain. Perhaps quite literally for modern society, we’ve gone too far to turn back.

It’s difficult to free fools from the chains they revere – Voltaire

At least I have a few songs to listen to.

Fingerbanger 1: Clams Casino – I’m God (don lowed)