A Clockwork Orange is one of my favorite all time books along with the autobiography of Malcolm X. The unedited version with Burgess true ending is deep. It reminds me of a song from Funkadelic titled, ‘If You Don’t Like The Effects, Don’t Produce The Cause’.
Londontown is smoldering as we speak…
Lewisham, a suburb of south-east London blighted by serious deprivation and unsympathetic post-war planning which turned much of its centre into a one-way gyratory
When being a white no longer has any cultural value what will keep the people from pushing back? What will keep the people from attacking the ‘other’? What will keep the people from attacking the system that engineered their discontent?
England’s social engineering is always a serious study to me. The suburbs are secretly blighted and underserved, but for generations this was accepted without question for the most part. Troubled youth were then reconditioned for their banal existence.
The meat grinder mind control machine is slowly breaking. Now all the youth have left the Korova Milk Bar and they are thirsty. With no God to guide them they are just aimless, destructive robots.
Here is their future soundtrack…
The Throne – ‘No Church In The Wild’
DP– I know you’re a big Clash fan, which isn’t an enthusiasm I share per se– they’re too much like Springsteen to me: well-meaning but hokey, with some exceptions– but there’s def. some been strong Brit push back, black & white.
Linton Kwesi Johnson “Reality Poem”–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gg0S3JaRco
The Fall “Prole Art Threat”–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvG5fUDTaFc
You need subtitles to understand Mancunian more than even LKJ’s patois so here goes.
ALSO: MF Doom is the Mark E. Smith of hip-hop (almost), no shit.
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Pink press threat!
Man with chip: I’m riding third class on a one-class train.
I’m cranked at nought like a wimpey crane.
I’m a pink prole threat.
Gent in safe-house: get out the pink press threat file
And brrrptzzap* the subject.
Man with chip: it’s de-louse, safe-house time
(now v. bitter) when I get to the safe house
Hanging rhyme
Hang this crummy blitz trad. by it’s neck
Pink press threat
I escaped the pink prole effect
Gent in safe-house: it’s a new prole art threat
It’s recluse, safehouse time
Narrator: then the clan began
Agenda item one
Scene: safe-house give them nail files, soon
Gent and staff- and looking at this agenda, we have a bit of
Now revealed a problem here
To be m.i.9 get out the pink press threat file
New prole art threat the subject
It’s safehouse, safehouse time
(all: everybody hears the hum at 3:00 a.m.)
But in the safehouse, it’s not around
Pink press threat
Gent: get out and apply the wet lib file
Vs. this new prole art threat
Safehouse, safehouse tone
Man with chip, that clan has gotten away with 100 years
Dissipated and knacked, of sheer brilliance
At home, video reach, –up till now
Stereo bog etc.
i dont understand whose rioting over there cause it looks like black and whites, who got shot? why? and i thought every one in europe is pussy.
Black dude was killed by cops in London during a traffic stop. I guess that police brutality has been an issue of late in London… Struggle on!
@pmac not europe just france is pussy. europe is hardbody they fight at soccer games they had firms and shit. well they called them firms but they were really just gangs. check out the movie green street hooligans. it’s a good movie shows you the lifestyle those guys live. plus it was worse than that at one point in europe. think about it all these people fighting over a game. they are in no way connected to the teams.
I gotta get more info on the London situation before I form an opinion. But WTT is not that good for the record.
Lamar,
Do me a favor and tiny .url your YT links just so you don’t have to end up in the admin approval area.
I know an artist from Brixton who has one of my favorite all time jams. TY who got down with Spitkicker just before it hit the iceberg. He is the dude that caught the Titanic from Block Island.
BigNat,
You know not what you speak of. I fuxed with the Parisian suburbs hardbody and left the day after they popped off their riots. Paris niggas been rioting before shit got all trendy.
http://dallaspenn.com/weblog/?p=183
@ 40 Diesel – “Black dude was killed by cops in London during a traffic stop. ” – the story isn’t that straightforward and it only accounts for the riots in Tottenham where the shooting occurred. The riots across the whole of London that followed have nothing to do with this. The rioters are a mixture of black, white and asian – they are looting Footlockers, JD Sports and mobile phone shops.
I’ll post what i put on the other thread:
“Kids destroying their own neighbourhoods in LON right now, for the sake of plasmas and mobile phones. What they don’t see is they are speeding up the gentrification process and doing the governments own work for them. They are marginalizing their own communities even further. Now we’ll give birth to the next generation who will be even angrier.”
This pic somes up the fuckery: http://tinyurl.com/3v57jwk
The swag gained from boosting a bag basmati rice must be incalculable. Fight the power indeed.
ADB,
Read that Guardian article which said a neighborhood was “blighted thru deprivation” and “unsympathetic post-war planning”.
These fucked the fuck up communities were created and purposely placed in poverty. The looters don’t have any other means to crack out of their caste.
DP – I know these neighbourhoods – I grew up with my friends in and around them. My home in London is 5 minutes from Clapham Junction where some of the worse rioting has occurred. I understand that the social context, inequality and conditions are behind their behaviour. Understanding the bigger picture doesn’t stop me condemning their their actions. These kids aren’t trying to redress anything, they’re out for a laugh and looting because there is no real police presence to stop them. That being said, our current government isn’t going to admit that the social inequality the are inflicting on our society is going to continue to make this worse.
ADB – Thanks for the adding on. I knew my answer oversimplified what’s going on, but I just found it interesting here in the States how this aspect of it is just relatively glossed over. By no means am I making excuses or defending the opportunists who just used this flash point for their own gain. Unfortunately its a by product of violent protest. It just harkens back to me some almost 20 years ago when LA exploded over the Rodney King verdict and the fact that four cops were acquitted whoopin’ ass on tape in many eyes is just a footnote to “LA was run amok with opportunistic looters hellbent on mayhem and chaos”, sadly both are civil tragedies. It seems that sometimes the person who fell by unjust means that symbolizes flashpoint for such anarchy sadly gets painted with the same brush and is tarnished along with such behavior. Which to me bring me full circle into seguing into your last post which I totally agree with. The social context is usually lost by those just looking for a cheapp come up… Thanks again for adding on ADB. I haven’t had a good DP Fam-A-Lam comments conversation in a while. Respect due.
40 – all good man. Interestingly a few people I’ve discussed with in London have also drawn comparisons to the Rodney King incident.
This is a very good article which gives a little bit of history relating to the Brixton riots.
http://moronwatch.blogspot.com/2011/08/morons-riots-and-amnesia.html
Got it, DP– sorry for the trouble. I realized the Aksimet might have thought I was spamming.
Otherwise, I have my head down on some history work and am not really following the Brit unrest though as suggested elsewhere, I grew up on Linton Kwesi Johnson records (which I didn’t fully understand but sounded great, just like a kid can’t get all of Gil Scott-Heron either tho’ TRYING will make you smarter).
This dude was couple of years below me at school – he is (was) a teacher for gods sake:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/10/london-riots-primary-school-worker-31-pleads-guilty-to-looting-as-court-cases-start-115875-23334652/
Smh