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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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Taylor Swift is the one artist today I respect 100%
She puts personal details about her life into songs and releases them for the entire world to hear. She dates guys and picks herself back up again when she’s heartbroken. She spends hours with fans to thank them for her success. She wrote a song for Ronan. She can’t really sing all that well but guess who cares? Not her. She manages to be sexy without going overboard. She can be gracious and silly at the same time. I think Taylor is brave, classy and beautiful.
You go Taylor Swift. You fucking go.
Given the fact that my generation is better educated as a whole than others, I’d like to think that we’re capable of solving some of the problems left by the previous two or three generations, but when I look at things like Tumblr, I realize that’s never going to happen.
You’d think the generation that grew up being told we could do/be anything we wanted, only to graduate college right as the economy collapsed, would be eager to roll up its sleeves and fix the grossly unfair economic system that benefits the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Instead, we have Tumblr… where every PC-Thug and Social-Justice-Tryhard is so preoccupied calling themselves “oppressed victims of white malehood,” that they can’t fathom banding together with their enemy, “the patriarchy” to cut the wealthy down to size.
Even when that idea is pointed out to them, they’re so distracted by the “race and sex” of the wealthy that they can’t understand that it’s irrelevant to solving the problem.
The solution is not to make more rich minorities. The solution is to make fewer rich people and enrich everyone else, white, black, man, woman, whatever.
Human history is one long struggle between the haves and have-nots, i.e. rich and poor.
The reason the rich stay rich is because they put all their effort into playing the poor against each other, just like here on tumblr: i.e. “You’re white, you have privilege. You’re straight. You have privilege. You’re male, you have privilege. You’re thin. You have privilege,” or even something as mundane as, “You like this, ergo I don’t like you. You hate that, ergo I hate you.” When the poor argue amongst themselves, fighting over who has it worse, who’s right or wrong, the rich just laugh all the way to the bank. Free tip, proletariat… YOU’RE ALL WRONG.
Wake me when my generation actually grows up and stops arguing amongst themselves about social justice, and starts focusing on the REAL problem: economic justice.
Tax the wealthy.
Stop government handouts to businesses.
Stop having kids.
Nationalize the energy and healthcare industries.
It’s an unpopular opinions blog. No fucking duh there’s gonna be triggering shit on here. Just don’t be stupid about it.
And before people say “You don’t know what it’s like! Poor me sob sob sob I was an idiot and didn’t avoid something that I should have known would upset me.” So many things on this blog have triggered me. But instead of try to get pity for it I just get off the blog. Stop being idiots and follow my example.
Tumblr claims to hate Taylor Swift and her lyrics so much, but there are several sets of lyrics of hers that is always reblogged on tumblr, by people who hate her. But because it does not say where the quote came from, they reblog it.
Examples:
“You don’t feel pretty, you just feel used” -Lucky One
“Wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now” -Fifteen
“You’re string of lights is still bright to me” -Innocent
“I love you to the moon and back” -Ronan
and “Words, how little they mean, a little too late” Sad Beautiful Tragic.
Just thought you should know. I know that there are a couple lyrics that people can dislike, but seriously, you don’t hate all of them if you have reblogged any of these, because they ARE hers.
Two Opinions:
It really irritates me when people are all fussed about downloading/streaming music or movies being “illegal”. Nobody cares! Yeah, I’m sure Rihanna could really use your 99 pence because it’s not like she’s rich or anything.
Spotify is so, so, SO much better than iTunes! You can actually share music with friends by sending it to them, you have access to millions of songs for just £10 a month if you want, four of the top five record labels are signed with them, I could go on.
Led Zeppelin has better songs than Stairway to Heaven, Queen has better songs than Bohemian Rhapsody, and Journey has better songs than Don’t Stop Believing.
Taylor Swift looks like this cat.
It annoys me when people look down on people who are doing an Arts degree in college. Ok, at a glance you might not think there is much to be done with subjects like english, psychology, history, social science etc.. With arts, you do not come out of college qualified in one profession (i.e if you do medicine you come out a doctor, if you do law you can come out a lawyer) Most people who do arts are ‘drifters’, they like to be flexible and do a few different things with their lives. My sister did an english degree, and she’s been all over the world teaching. I did French and have been with different companies in several countries doing translation and small bit of teaching. I’ve met wonderful people, experienced different cultures and yeah, the salary is rather satisfying. And it’s not just teaching you can do. Take a look at this list http://www.kinderart.com/artspeak/artart2.shtml I also know several people who have gone into journalism.
With arts, you have to look for work. Some people do arts and whine that they ‘can’t get a job’ and end up working in subway. These are lazy people who are not willing to look, not willing to travel or simply went into arts for the wrong reason (such as the classic ‘I don’t know what to do with my life….I’ll do an arts degree!’)
Arts isn’t for everyone, but that’s no different to other college courses. I loathe the idea of working in an office at a law firm for the rest of my life or spending 24/7 looking after patients in a hospital. But people do those things because they are passionate about it. I happen to be passionate about the arts, and there IS work there, and plenty of it. Just because you don’t like arts doesn’t mean it’s useless. Let people do what they want, it’s none of your business.
