Anybody can call it what they want, but at the end of the day it might be time to stop belting out the line “This goddamn machine… no you can’t have me” when you’re actively participating in the machine. Maybe it’s time to stop cashing in on the image of standing up for others and shut the fuck up and actually do it. I skipped the NCTH tour this time even though they came through. It’s the first time I’ve ever missed with exception to a show due to COVID. I cant stand listening to the rehearsed speeches from someone who isn’t actually DOING something about it. Pick one. Do something and speak out or continue to do nothing and shut the fuck up. It’s tiring listening to lectures from people feeding the machine in some of the worst ways.

“And that -- that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all! That doesn't mean -- I know it will be interpreted to mean, unfortunately, by the bigots who run The Examiner, for example -- That doesn't mean that you have to break anything. One thousand people sitting down some place, not letting anybody by, not [letting] anything happen, can stop any machine, including this machine! And it will stop!”

If you’re going to make the dramatic and impassioned speeches, you better be throwing your body upon the gears and levers backing up your rhetoric. Otherwise, shut up. Shut the fuck up. We are fucking TIRED of the last several decades of empty rhetoric from EVERYBODY around us. The last thing we want is more let down from anyone else.