Your Money > Your Vote (Let Love Be Your Driving Force)

Jun 12, 2008 - 11:14 AM PST

Commerce tells you to buy new goods and throw out your outdated ones - consumership is what your life is worth. Realize that you are a container of life (the thing that anti-abortionists and anti-stem cell people fight for)... and start valuing yourself. Get naked and love yourself. (literally or metaphorically)

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Why does an advertiser get paid more than a humanitarian? Why does a cosmetologist get paid more than a doctor? Why does an athlete get paid more than a teacher?

Because people want it that way.

Thats how the (free market) private sector works. You determine who gets paid more by your consumption of their messages and products. Commercial interests (advertisers) flock around the people that you like to watch, listen to and get entertained by.

If you attend a river cleanup or protest, advertisers are likely to be active in those communities vs. if you watch MTV, then advertisers are likely to pay that channel, its producers..., and you're being entertained with raunchy music videos, messages of ads, poor behavior (sluts and players, anorexia), poor hygiene ( i just wanted to toss that in here), and honestly, fucking garbage.) Really... fucking waste of time, mind-debilitating, and let me emphasize again, fucking garbage. (MTV is cleaning up some of their shit, but I use the example to convey the point. And still there is nothing more empowering than actually expressing your values, instead of absorbing others'.)

The major deviations from the rule (of voting with your money) are public institutions and 'altruistic' interests (the two are not synonymous.) Government-funded institutions are the major commercial factors influenced by your political vote. Your Congress decides what to fund and what not to fund based on political interest. (ie. PBS, Drug Criminalization, Dept. of Education, Homeland Security...) Whereas the Internet (YouTube, Net Neutrality, Open Source...) bases some of 'its' activity on other interests - a lot of the www is based on principles other than economic gain. (ie. wanting to be heard (blogging), wanting to send a message (hacking), wanting to make a product that you want to use (Linux, Wikipedia)...)

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Think about how you spend your time and money.

Read a book. (or good online journals or Wikipedia or those knowledge videos on YouTube or listen to 'healthy' music)

Let love be your driving force.

Further Inspiration:

Bridget Gray - My Letter to Hip Hop (intelligent poetry)

Immortal Technique - Poverty of Philosophy (intelligent rap)

D'Mite - Read a Book - (comedy rap)