Subterranean Rebellion

I’ve got Subterranean Homesick Blues in my head this morning. Yes, again or as usual – take your pick. If I could manage the steps I would head to the basement to mix up the medicine. If it wasn’t so damn cold out this morning maybe I’d be on the pavement thinkin' about the government. I believe I can still do that inside my home with a warm cat, husband, and cup of tea though.

Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin’ for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
By the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten

Banksy

Word for the day?

Rebellion
     noun
: opposition to one in authority or dominance 

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
~  Thomas Jefferson

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. 
~  Banksy, Wall and Piece 

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own government, I can not be silent. 
~  Martin Luther King Jr. 

Watch the plain clothes
You don’t need a weatherman
To know which way the wind blows

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
~  Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer 

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!
~  Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra 

Look out kid
You’re gonna get hit
But users, cheaters
Six-time losers
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin’ for a new fool
Don’t follow leaders
Watch the parkin’ meters

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice. 
~  Mike Norton

With rebellion, awareness is born.
~  Albert Camus, The Rebel 

Banksy

How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. advertises trucks by invoking “The Dodge Rebellion”? How is one to be bona fide iconoclast when Burger King sells onion rings with “Sometimes You Gotta Break the Rules”? How can an Image-Fiction writer hope to make people more critical of televisual culture by parodying television as a self-serving commercial enterprise when Pepsi and Subaru and FedEx parodies of self-serving commercials are already doing big business? It’s almost a history lesson: I’m starting to see just why turn-of-the-century Americans’ biggest fear was of anarchist and anarchy. For if anarchy actually wins, if rulelessness become the rule, then protest and change become not just impossible but incoherent. It’d be like casting a ballot for Stalin: you are voting for an end to all voting.
~  David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments 

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
~  Margaret Mead 

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
~  Margaret Mead

      The pump don’t work
      ’Cause the vandals took the handles 

My father was right – Dylan was a god.