The Foolish Mob

Why did the corporate media support so much fraud made out of my honest work? Power is the answer. The media covets the power to decide who you love and who you hate. If an artist comes along and disagrees with them at the same time as he wins over large portions of the population, their power is threatened. They need to destroy this person so that they can feel confident that they hold the power of popularity over talent. The media hates real talent because real talent challenges their power. They don't want people to love talent, they want us to love who they tell us to love, no matter who it is, and to reject everyone else. I would have been a lot more impressed with their 'power' if they didn't need to use so many examples of my talent to support their hate. If you love the media, you hate talent. Luckily, I don't have a burning need to go on a stage and impress my peers because I've been out of the classroom for long enough to stand on my own two feet in this world. On the other hand, if the gang rape of my songs and blogs had occurred when I was still in my twenties, it might have killed me. Being popular was important to me then. But now I'm old enough to know that being popular is totally worthless and would leave me feeling terribly unfulfilled. Now I consider myself to be primarily an artist. I get a thrill from creating my work and I don't need to go on a stage and show off with it. These uncreative pricks who steal my work need to stand on a stage and pretend they are artists because they are not artists and they will never know how satisfying it is to produce an original work of art. Without my art, they would look as unimpressive as they truly are, getting up in front of group as we have all been made to do before the age of ten and reciting something they read. Big deal. And do we scream as loudly for tribute bands as we do for their mentors? Of course not, as long as the media doesn't lie to us about who wrote the music. And with that, I'd like to ask you who wrote Size and Canopy and Godspeed and Nothing but Ashes and Fool and Fool's Paradise and Under My Umbrella and Bad News and Beguiled and Fortune and Survival and Chair, to name as few of my 2007 recordings? And in 2011 and 2012 who wrote Linger and Mayhem and Rules and Business (Psych) so that he could have some new songs all to himself? And last year, who wrote Currents and Disenchanted and Epitomes and Denial and Insidious and Redundant? Who did the media tell you wrote these songs? If you know, it's because you trust them with a faith that has so far gouged a twenty year hole in my life that otherwise would have been occupied by my happiest years.
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