Don't Say the "M" Word!
How to rid ourselves of companies like Amazon.com!
Whoever enters here honors me; whoever doesn’t- pleases me.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Live Yet Pre-recorded- Episode XCVIII of:
Don’t Say the “M” Word!
A Silent Radio Hour: Live Yet Pre-Recorded:
“I understand people believe I'm just a statistic
I say to them I'm different”
10th grader, Antwon Rose
“De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace!” [“Audacity, audacity, always audacity!”]
-Georges Danton
R#2: Welcome cherished listeners! I’m Becka better known as Reject #2! I’m continuing to lead ‘A Silent Radio Hour’ live yet pre-recorded here on Reject Square in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington kitty-corner to the Corporate Headquarters of Amazon.com in the United States of Hey People! Wake Up! Everybody’s Quickly Becoming a Reject Existing on Their Own Reject Square Here or SWCHAcUSHPWUEQBRETORSH in: America!
TheRejects: USA! USA! USA! Not a good day to be poor in the Good Ole USA!
R#2: Unrighteously so!
R#1: Sure nice to have the Brothers Grimm back! Oh by the way? What’s become of RAT man, Warren Williams?
R#2: Unknown!
TheRejects: Unknown! Unknown! Unknown! Beware of the Unknown!
R#2: Righteously so! And now onto “our” present Episode or E and hopefully finding something “known” for your pleasure if not outright delight! Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls of The Mickey Mouse Club! ‘Lovers of Democracy’ as Thomm Hartman says at the beginning of each and every one of his shows!
R#7: I do so love listening to that Tommy “boy” Hartman!
TheRejects: Quiet!
R#2: Okay than! Please welcome the Stupid Ass Scratching Mark Oglesby better known as TheSASMO!
TheRejects: TheSASMO! TheSASMO! TheSASMO! Let TheSASMO be TheSASMO!
R#2: Righteously so!
TheSASMO: Good to be alive here on planet blue!
R#7: Hope this scenario keeps playing out!
R#2: Where there’s life! There’s hope!
TheSASMO: And this’ what we have on tap for today! How to keep planet blue alive and moving forward! So than! Beware of Darkness or BD!
R#7: And everybody sing with all your hearts!
TheRejects&TheSASMO: Watch out now, take care Beware of falling swingers Dropping all around you The pain that often mingles In your fingertips Beware of darkness Watch out now, take care Beware of the thoughts that linger Winding up inside your head The hopelessness around you In the dead of night Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for Watch out now, take care Beware of soft shoe shufflers Dancing down the sidewalks As each unconscious sufferer Wanders aimlessly Beware of Maya Watch out now, take care Beware of greedy leaders They take you where you should not go While weeping atlas cedars They just want to grow, grow and grow Beware of darkness (beware of darkness)!
R#2: TheSASMO! SASMO? Please explain “Maya” if you might?
TheSASMO: Maya literally means “illusion” or “magic” which has multiple meanings in Indian philosophy! In ancient Vedic literature, Maya literally signified extraordinary power and wisdom. In later Vedic texts, also in modern literature dedicated to Indian traditions, Maya represents a “magic” show; an illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem! Maya’s a spiritual concept! One that exists but is constantly changing and thus spiritually unreal! It’s the power, the principle that conceals the true character of spiritual reality!
TheRejects: What TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: Basically! I’m suggesting that we shouldn’t always believe, accept what you see, hear, touch, taste and/or measure!
TheRejects: What TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: Fundamentally! All those forces which are coming after your very souls! Your conscience! The very ethics and principles you were raised to believe in and abide by! Your sense of right and wrong!
TheRejects: What TheSASMO?
TheSASMO: The exact opposite of all the Stupid Ass Scratching Stuff or SASS which ‘The Everything Store’ or TES…
TheRejects: TES! TES! TES! ‘The Everything Store’s’ certainly a mess!
TheSASMO: Amazon.com wants you too constantly, incessantly, relentlessly; with absolute persistence if not unconsciously order via online retail! What I call: Wants! Needs! And hidden desires!
TheRejects: I want! I need! Give me! Give me! Give me!
TheSASMO: The “illusion” which’s Maya or the “magic” show, the illusion where things appear to be present but are not what they seem! This’ TheAmazon to its core! Their promise or “magic” show of gaining “Fulfillment” through “their” once again, Stupid Ass Scratching Stuff or SASS being delivered “right” to your front door!
TheRejects: Discontent! Discontent! Discontent! Frustration and unhappiness delivered by TheAmazon!
R#2: What can be done SASMO?
TheSASMO: Look again at George Harrison’s ‘Beware of Darkness’! What’s he saying?
R#2: Mr. Harrison says: ‘It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for!’
TheSASMO: Entities like Amazon.com preach to you the opposite! The “It” is TheAmazon’s very selling point! Those things which steal your soul! That desire to have something, anything “brought” directly to you making you feel OH so important!
TheRejects: Even Rejects are important!
R#7: I’m not an animal! I’m a human being!
R#3: Not if you don’t have cash or credit to buy Amazon’s Stupid Ass Scratching Stuff or SASS!
TheRejects: SASS! SASS! SASS! Kick TheAmazon’s ASS!
R#1: Absolutely! Shout it out! I’m not a freaking Amazonian Android or AA! I’m a freaking human being!
TheSASMO: All important human being you are! Look! We can all live without shopping “online” until we drop! AGAIN! We should “not” keep going into massive personal and/or public debt just to have Stupid Ass Scratching Stuff or SASS delivered to “our” front doors!
R#7: In 48 hours or less!
R#3: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds!
R#1: But I want my freakin’ MTV!
R#7: And everybody sing!
TheRejects&TheSASMO: ‘Now look at them yo-yo’s that’s the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it Money for nothin’ and chicks for free Now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys ain’t dumb Maybe get a blister on your little finger Maybe get a blister on your thumb We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these color TV's See the little faggot with the earring and the make-up Yeah buddy that’s his own hair That little faggot got his own jet airplane That little faggot he’s a BILLIONAIRE! We gotta install microwave ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these color TV’s I shoulda’ learned to play the guitar I shoulda’ learned to play them drums Look at that mama, she got it stickin’ in the camera Man we could have some fun And he’s up there, what’s that? Hawaiian noises? Bangin’ on the bongos like a chimpanzee That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it Get your money for nothin’ get your chicks for free We gotta install ovens Custom kitchen deliveries We gotta move these refrigerators We gotta move these color TV’s, Lord Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it You play the guitar on the MTV That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it Money for nothin’ get your chicks for free Money for nothin’ get chicks for free!’
R#2: Money for nothin’!
TheSASMO: Sounds like TheAmazon to me!
TheRejects: TheAmazon! TheAmazon! TheAmazon! Money for nothin’ delivered by dawn!
R#6 [aka: Dawn]: I don’t deliver no stinkin’ Amazon.com Stupid Ass Scratching Stuff or SASS!
TheSASMO: And it all sounds like?
TheRejects: Maya! Maya! Maya! Money for nothin’ get your “delivery” for free!
R#2: And this, hopefully, leads us into today’s Episode or E! And TheSASMO, please!
How to rid ourselves of companies like Amazon.com!
TheSASMO: Socialism has become the new Political Buzzword or PB! Progressive Policies or PP gives us job guarantees! Universal, single-payer health care! Caring for hungry, unwanted children! “Our” Veterns! The homeless! The elderly! “Our” country! “Our” country “not” some God Damned Corporation’s Country or GDCC!
TheRejects: GDCC! GDCC! GDCC! NO! This Country belongs to US ALL!
R#7: And everybody sing for your lives!
TheRejects&TheSASMO: This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me As I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless skyway: I saw below me that golden valley: This land was made for you and me. This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me I’ve roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts; And all around me a voice was sounding: This land was made for you and me. This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me When the sun came shining, and I was strolling, And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling, As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting: This land was made for you and me. This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said “No Trespassing.” But on the other side it didn’t say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me? This land is your land and this land is my land From California to the New York island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me.
TheSASMO: Gospel truth! ‘Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me!’ In contrast, capitalism, once defended as a seemingly unassailable ideology, is showing deep fractures. While the U.S. economy booms, “workers have been ripped off,” a New York Times editorial said in August.
TheRejects: Ripped off! Ripped off! Ripped off! Workers are everywhere being Ripped off!
R#2: Thank TheBezos children!
TheRejects: Thank you Jeff Bezos!
TheSASMO: Indeed! Thank TheBezos! Look! Generally accepted problems concerning capitalism are: Inequality! Stagnating wages! A severe instability which has led to major global political and cultural shifts! Continuously fluctuating markets! Markets which crash without notice! Markets that are unstable! Markets that are unsafe for Children and Other living things!
TheRejects: What TheSASMO!
TheSASMO: People are frustrated! Their lives have been pulled apart due to Hyperactive Cultural Consumerism HCC! People can’t keep up! People must never become endless appetites! What the Tibetan Buddhists call Hungry Ghosts! And because of this, we can also see an increased hunger, a passionate need for alternatives to Over Consumption Capitalism or OCC!
R#2: Some examples if you please, TheSASMO!
TheSASMO: Going to the corner hardware store for a box of nails instead of going online!
W: Some Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGIT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn?
TheRejects&TheSASMO: Yes please!
W: Be right back hons!
TheRejects&TheSASMO: Thank you!
TheSASMO: Getting “our” produce from “local” Farmers Markets! From “actual” local growers instead of some God Damned Corporate Super-Market or GDCSM!
TheRejects: Local! Local! Local! America needs to go “back” to Local!
TheSASMO: Taking “your” children to a local book store and teaching them the value, the liberating joy of reading a book! Basically! Staying away from the Industrial Machine or IM which’s Amazon.com!
TheRejects: IM! IM! IM! Rage against the Industrial Machine! Rage against TheAmazon!
R#2: And to conclude today’s Episode of E since we’re once again outta time! TheSASMO, please!
TheSASMO: A recent Gallup Poll or GP looking at US attitudes toward Socialism or S and Capitalism or C said for the first time since the organization started tracking the issue in 2010 that Democrats have a more positive image of Socialism or S than Capitalism or C! Their positive feelings toward Capitalism or C have plummeted.
TheRejects: Wonder why?
R#2: And that’s a wrap! Good night Irene!
R#7: What a gal she was!
TheRejects: Quiet!
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To our cherished listeners out there hopefully believing that “our” ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’ which’s live yet pre-recorded formerly at The Spank the Monkey Café in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington of the United States of Here’s Still Hoping for the Fifth Aeon to Finally Come and Save Us All Here or USHSHFAFCSUAH in: America which’s quickly Slipping Into Darkness or SID! Hopefully, we’ll be back next time! Who knows? Now listen! I’m Becka better known as Reject # 2 filling in for Producer Only Warren who’s Gone To Ground or GTG! I’m here in what’s known as “Reject Square” where we’re now broadcasting live yet pre-recorded and so many thanks once again to “our” cherished listeners who are anticipating another Episode or E of ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’! We’re so sorry that you have to live through these nasty “happenings” taking place daily here in America! I mean to say! Really SORRY! But I wish to thank all of you for tuning in once more while again leaving Any Semblance of Rational Thought or ASRT at the door as for the sake of TheBezos: How in the hell can you listen to silent radio? Never understood that one but hey folks! We’re back! (Inspirational Pause!) And please cherished “LISTENERS” again return next time to hopefully Find-Out-the-Facts or FOFs concerning the nature and cause of our Collective Delusion or CD as we Tell Our Tale or TOT of Misery or M here in a land known as America! Please stay safe and always watch out for those Frenzied, Extremely Agitated Regrettables or FEAR who see their own reflection in the Mirrored Sunglasses or MSs of those who would Un-Naturally or UN ridicule our Blessed Way of Life here on Silent Radio or SR! And please! Make sure to thank TheBezos! And so I’m pretty certain! And Good Night Irene! Whoever “she” is?
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D: Jonathan?
J: Yes Drew?
D: Seems the entire planet’s on fire? Actual fire! What’s going on?
J: Planet’s heating up!
D: Can’t we cool it back down again?
J: Not if we allow Extreme Corporate Capitalism or ECC to continue unrestrained, unregulated!
D: What?
J: ECC doesn’t concern itself with the health of the planet! The health of human beings, children included! The health of plants and animals! The air we breathe! The water we drink! The soil we grown “our” food in! None of these things falls into their province!
D: So what does the ECC care about Jonathan?
J: “Their” bottom line!