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They'll $ell You Your $uicide
Contributed by
Steeleyes
on
Wednesday, 11th December 2002 @ 07:00:00 PM in AEST
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They'll sell you your suicide
If you let them
The marketers
The ad-men
The producers
The businessmen
If it's technically legal
Someone will sell it
Good or Bad is irrelevant
Electric cattle prods to Turkish torturers?
No problem...
Cheap nicotine to Third World children?
With pleasure...
Movies that can curl your toes with violence
Coming right up...
Missiles, tanks and guns
Go on, make my day...
BUY and BUY and BUY.
And don't you ever ask why...
They'll sell you your suicide
And as you buy see them sell your soul
(But only if you let them...)
Copyright ©
Steeleyes
... [
2002-12-11 19:00:00]
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Re: They'll $ell You Your $uicide
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by KM on
Wednesday, 11th December 2002 @ 07:11:57 PM AEST
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Great write! It's just 'marvelous darling' to see that others recognise this as well.
Keep it up. I look forward to reading more. |
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Re: They'll $ell You Your $uicide
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by bobotheclown on
Wednesday, 11th December 2002 @ 07:53:25 PM AEST
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Hey I agree everything is marketing, marketing and more marketing especially around Christmas time or w/e the 'appropriate' term is nowadays. I dont understand the electric cattle prods to Turkish torturers line. That was sort of confusing and I dont think by buying something your selling your soul, but this was a very good, provocative poem. Way to be!
- Bobo (Joel) |
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Re: They'll $ell You Your $uicide
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by Steeleyes on
Thursday, 12th December 2002 @ 06:40:18 PM AEST
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| Thanks KM. There are a lot of us. Do a search on 'Voluntary Simplicity' and see... :D |
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Re: They'll $ell You Your $uicide
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by Steeleyes on
Thursday, 12th December 2002 @ 06:45:58 PM AEST
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| Hi Bobo, thanks. We manufacture and sell the Turkish police their favourite instruments of torture.... Buying things you need and the occasional luxury is no problem. But the consuming that's going on now will destroy the natural things of this planet.. it'll only take time. Look at where we've come in terms of consumption in the last 200 years. We have 5,000,000,000 years of living still to go... The path we are on isn't sustainable. We need to start to live low maintenance lifestyles to give us a sustainable future. That means buying less goods. The machine that creates all the stuff is like an enormous vacuum cleaner. It's sucking up the natural things, peoples and cultures of this world. Many species are dying yearly and they wont be coming back... Let's not pay the Earth for the trinkets that line our cell walls... ;D |
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