From Mike's Desk
Wednesday, 03 December 2008 21:39
Mike Kowalski
- In a world where the flow of information, media, and culture is increasing becoming owned and commercialized, it is easy for people to feel powerless.
- Self-expression is so hard that the “starving artist” has become a comedic stereotype.
- Powerful companies buy pieces of culture and lord it over the rest of us, forcing us to experience culture in a consumer format, subject to their demands.
- We have to sell ourselves to them, one hour at a time, just to eat and stay healthy. We might even become tantalized by their advertisements, promising happiness for the purchase of shoddy goods and services.
- People let the government take their money, which then used to bomb foreigners and line the pockets of their corporate allies.
- It is easy for people to feel like they can’t do anything to change the state of the world, and so they trudge back to the polls every four years and hope for the best.
- To most people, revolution just seems too hard to digest.
- These things are only happen because we LET them happen.
- There are, however, alternatives.
- There are underground ways that dig beneath the surface of the turbulent surface of mass media.
- There is hope as long as we don’t shut up.
- They need a big, loud “FUCK YOU” in their ear as we pass them in the streets.
- They need to know that we are sick of their food.
- That is why I have created a new food: revolutionary, but easy for everyone to digest!
- It’s called MICROWAVEABLE SEDITION!
- Even lazy college students like me can cook it!
- We don’t have to go hungry to be revolutionary.
- Microwaveable Sedition is a radical political 'zine created by and for students, workers, and everyday folks fed up with the fast-food consumer hell we live in.
- We encourage active participatory media and promote free culture not constrained by intellectual property laws.
- To create our 'zine, we accept submissions from people like YOU!
- So hurry up and send us stuff!
- A microwaved meal only takes a few minutes…
Last Updated on Thursday, 04 December 2008 16:23
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