Revolutionary Road

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Sprawling From Grace, Driven to Madness
The End of Suburbia



This is a P.S.A.
for pirated radio stations.
We're asleep in the American Dream.
Let's get awake and face it.
Ive waited all my life for freedom;
I'm running out of patience.
We've turned the new world
into a sick suburban nation.

I'll paint a portrait of the 'burbs
so you can see the basis
of my hatred for this
absurd stasis we've created.
You could look around
and see nothing but a sea of neighbors
thatve been racistly segregated
by the real estate agents.

Physically separated
by the architect's visions,
our dwellings are set up
for solitary existence.
Were supposedly rich
but poor in terms of real living;
cookie-cutter castles fit for kings
have become prisons.

And don't you dare to
be young or grow old, neither.
Ain't no room for y'all
in the nuclear family ether.
Kids and senior citizens
both need chauffeuring.
If you can't drive, then you die,
but don't worry -

Everyone drives around here,
ain't got another way to move.
Sure, there's buses and trains
but really ain't no routes,
and no way to bike along
an 8-lane outer loop.
We inundate the innards
of the cities with our crowded crews

cause we always need to work
to keep buying nourishment.
Ain't shit growing on our lawns
but farms are flourishing, sort of...
the man-for-machine trade has been made,
and the rate and size of produce exponentially inflates

so we're healthy.
At least, so says the popular opinion of it,
but most of us are
mentally insane pinions,
crab-bucket syndrome.
Im tryna get out but they clawing me.
Solidarity in conformity

Bottling reality,
sell it to me straight at the Wal-Mart
Disillusionment and depression
in the shopping cart
Make a quick stop at
the liquor stores mini-bar
Have a few shots of whisky
pay with a credit card.

Far from in the black,
Im in the red, baby, debts crazy
The economy crashed last week,
Damn tail-chasing
bail-baiting bank bastards,
get em in the clink fast.
We love to blame
others than ourselves for the hassles

of modernity incarnate, attempted technotopia
obviously bullshit,
some dangerous myopia
work is just an okey-doke,
they permanently roping ya,
feeling like a hopeful dope
at a silent symposium.

Town halls really just
a place for panhandlers,
and in the suburbs all we gots
a clubhouse and grandstands.
Shit,
Its cool for baseball but
what about the zoning laws?
I guess I get a vote but
they cant count em for the oval office.

I feel immobile often
like Im in a local coffin.
Im not joking: most times
I cannot manage walking.
I need a quart of milk,
some smokes and a pound of coffee.
Revolutionary road, my ass.
Please let me off it.

The mere existence of the path
on which were taking steps
renders regions bleeding with disease
how could we forget?
Aint no patriarchal Gods or churches
if our mommys dead
We all need to re-believe in people,
like Duany said.

Ill quote the book,
just to prove I know my shit
(You wont take me serious if Im not actually legit):
He says, communal space is key within a human habitat.
Well, in suburbs were all sectioned off alone how wack is that?

Lets not use as templates for a new design the broken ones:
All these rusty cities ashes,
misappropriated funds
Well shape it up right,
blaze a new trail like a blunt.
Aint saying, fuck life,
but fuck the way we get it done.

Look -
Ain't naught but residences
for several miles in each direction.
Arterial roads for automobiles
are our main veins to seek connection.
We need the presence of a store,
and more than that: a section
of each block reserved for shops
and some social resurrection.

Better yet, beyond the civics
abandon babylonic systems
civilized structures are inherently resistant
to the tao.
Talking bout some
bring em down now shit.
Thats the most important task,
doubtless.

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[gavloft]

I am watching this video in the comfort of my safe and secure home in the uk sorrounded by the fruits of civilization a computer tv etc all powered by oil. is Civilisation built on narccisism and greed? or for the benefit of one another?

[zzz33333]

i don't understand the question.

[estabutta]

2012

[zzz33333]

not rlly

[ozjthomas]

nice, lot of good quotes in there. the car is one of the worst things to happen to this country.

[Rsage]

why do we have to "block" ourselves in?

[bermizer]

I get it... my only problem is... If we are aware of the devestating affects we have on the planet and eachother, created by industry and "civilization", what can we do? Do we recycle our computer, phone, car and whatever else we "own" that does not serve us. Do we get off the grid and go live off the land? Do we join a eco-village? Or do we just settle with the awarness and make youtube videos?

[akpret]

@gavloft benefit of those alive today, but not our children and not for homeless jack. the question is in sustainability. you could technically do without tv and a computer.

[akpret]

the phone that i hate

[akpret]

you are very good at this........

i got in on my phone.

[libertarock]

nice job man!!!! really kick ass!!!

we're a band from brazil.. and surplus is the best documentary ever!!

[runnygrits]

Another watch from me. YES!

[bluedebi]

In no poetic language: DAAMMN! true words...a witness,a poet, a prophet, and so young- an old soul.

*****

[oilcrash1]

Sadly ZZ you are 100% correct

[phuq1deology]

honestly man, just watched this again, and this shit is bat-shit crazy.

my fav from you.

[1moreslave]

"Aint saying, fuck life,

but fuck the way we get it done"

Great as always...