Singularity

We have to create culture.
Don’t watch TV.
Don’t read magazines.
Don’t even listen to NPR.
Create your own road show.
The nexus of space and time
where you are now
is the most immediate sector of your universe.
And if you’re worrying about
Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else
then you’re dissempowered.
You’re giving it all away to icons.
Icons which are maintained by an electronic media.
So that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y, or some-
This is shit-brained this kind of thinking.
That is all cultural diversion.
And what is real is you
and your friends and your associations
your highs, your orgasms
your hopes, your plans, and your fears.
And we’re told:
'No.'
'We're unimportant.'
'We're peripheral.'
'Get a degree.'
'Get a job.'
'Get a this.'
'Get a that.'
And then you’re a player.
You don’t even want to play in that game.
You want to reclaim your mind
And get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers.
Who want to turn you into a half-baked moron
consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying
world.
Where is that at?"