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Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
With no easy cure in sight
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Except the warm knowledge that everything is cyclical
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People gotta realize they're being duped eventually...
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...don't they?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
ever heard of ribofunk?
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Yes
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
From you
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Paul DiFilipo is pretty much the reason I msgd you
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
That and you got hella style
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
So I bought ribofunk on ebay for 4 bucks
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
well. in the first tale, one night in television city.. it describes the city walls.. the graffiti. by far the best piece i've heard of so far was the rap resembling graffiti.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
it's the essence of today's and apparently the future's society.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
"hollow swallow follow"
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Today's and the future's, yes
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But you forgot the past
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
"keep your receptors filled".
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We've always been hollow swallow follow
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[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
yeah but see. you'd expect us to learn from these previous mistakes.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Ha!
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
to learn from our hollow swallow follow past and build a better tomorrow.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Humanity, learn from its mistakes?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
but you know what.. you cant change that theory.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
because they call it human nature. and humans will NEVER change.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
you can take a human, make him/her look different, change their values, their morals, their opinions, they're whole lives. but you cant change their nature.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
hmmm
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Not even with culture?>
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
culture is something we created.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
and since we are imperfect.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
everything we make will be like us.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
flawed.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Imperfect?
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
I suppose it all depends on how you define perfection
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
We are a product of nature
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Does that imply that nature is imperfect?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
there is no such thing as perfection.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
so yes nature is imperfect.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Wait
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Wait
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
If there's no such thing as perfection, how can there be such a thing as *imperfection* ?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
perfection is a goal, a wish, but it has not yet been attained.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
not in our world.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
it's a mindset... something you dream of.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Hmm
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Okay
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Continue
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
the lack of this "state" is what we live every day.. imperfection.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
inbetween the two is survival.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
the gray area between the white and the black.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
we as a species are imperfect, we have flaws, weaknesses, many things cloud our judgement.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
yet we are strong enough to survive and see tomorrow.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
...most of us are.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
How can that be explained
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Surely not dumb luck!
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
forced to quote crichton here. we dont have the power to make or break worlds, we have the power to make or break ourselves.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
I'll let the crichton quote slide on account of its relevance
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
That's true
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
..the quote is totally out of context too.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
but it applies in this case.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
When people talk about how they fear for the environment and the planet, what they really mean is they fear for themselves
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
hold that thought, one sec.
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The world's been through several mass extinctions
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It will survive whatever we can muster, too
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Sure.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
sorry about that.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
yeah see that's a key term there. mass extinctions. that's the context from which i pulled the crichton quote.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
today we're scared of polluting the planet and killing it.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
hmmm
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
i beg your pardon but the planet cant be killed. it's taken care of ITS SELF for millions of years and it will continue to do so. when the first plants started producing oxygen.. it was a natural disaster. it's a corrosive gas for fuck sakes, it killed so many species.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
no. we cant "save" the planet like the green peace dreams of..
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
because there's nothign to save. Earth is doing FINE by its self thank you very much.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
what we CAN save is our pathetic civilization.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
we now think we have the technological power and awareness to save our own asses.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
which is true. we might.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
but the plan in its self is erronated.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Yeah
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Exactly
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
because earth has had life on it for so fucking long, for one reason
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
ADAPTATION
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
We're soooo on the same level here
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
we must ADAPT to changes. not try to prevent them.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
change is inevitable.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
so this whole strugle for power, and strength and striving for a better tomorrow and blah blah bullshit dreams of utopia... it's our greatest strength - it motivates us to learn, and our greatest flaw - it aint gona happen.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
How cruelly ironic.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
because at soe point the tables turn.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
at some point the piece of toast falls out of your hand and lands butter down.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
this is the whole principle of martial arts.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
it's more important to learn how to FALL than how to prevent the fall.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
because you will bite dust at some point. that's INEVITABLE
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Be like water
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Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Excuse the emoticon
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
exactly.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
np.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
change shapes, change states, change everything but your purpose: survival.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Okay
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Let's break this down
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Even further
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Ready?
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Assuming that the ultimate goal of any living creature is survival
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And I fully believe this to be true, as I know you do
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Have you read the selfish gene?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
no
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Here's the jist of it
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We're pushed to survival by our genes, who are the only ones who have anything to gain from survival
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Once we die, our bodies become so much dust
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But our genes might live on
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Depending on how well we do in our livs
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Therefore, we're nothing but vehicles for our genes
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With me so far?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
yes
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Okay.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
So what is culture and art?
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Where does all that shit fit in the whole evolutionary scheme of things?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
it's on a scheme of its self.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
ahhhh
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
So what you're saying is that once we invented culture, we became something else
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
art for example portrays the lacks of a time period.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
no. culture and art are manifestations.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
..byproducts of a generation
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
byproducts of intelligence?
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Or just the logical extension of evolution?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
neanderthals painted heards of animals, clear streams of water. things they WANTED and lacked.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
cubism was a strange and shocking new approach in strict times.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
art and culture maintain the balance of our species...
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
kind hard for me to explain this without a nice big mug of coffee...
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
I hear ya
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
let's single out art.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Let's.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
it is always the opposite of reality. in times of war they painted happy fields.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
you know why today newspapers show real pictures of victims and deaths in times of war??
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
because that's -truth-
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
and going on my theory.. if art is -truth- and the opposite of reality.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
..today everything is full of shit. lies.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
dont know if this makes sense to you.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
before they pulled a field of pretty flowers as a vail over their eyes to hide from cruelties of day to day life.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
I'm with you
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
today the media, a form of -art- in a way, shows us real pictures, real stories, real pain... based on lies, that apparently sell pretty fucking well.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
So is art no longer the opposite of reality?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
nope it is.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
what we perceive as reality though is a ton of lies.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
...so art becomes reality in order to remain the nemesis.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Crazy
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
You've got it all figured out eh
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
pfft.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
hell no.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
im painfully far from it..
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
im human remember
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Don't worry
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
All of us are lost
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
i -realize- these thigns.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
they're my theories..
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
but applying them to day to day life is a hell of a lot harder.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
You'll have to tell me more of your theories some time
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Over some hot coffee
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
because i get one life to live. and if i was so BOUND by the painful imperfection of our species... i'd end up just hating myself and everything i represent and tryin to change it although i know it is impossible blah blah blah.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
i'd go nuts =]
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Haha yeah
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
I've been there
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
it's nice to sit and point fingers at the human race... it's even nicer to point fingers at ones that dont even come as far as us to understand these basics.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Hatred of humanity is nothing but hatred for onesself - extrapolated
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
but there's more to life than analysis.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
we are not machines. we are flesh and bones. flawed, yet excellent at one thing: passing on knowledge.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
...whether the future generation chooses to use it or not.. eh that's a different story.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
We're learning
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Slowly but surely...
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
of course we are.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
we are BUILT to learn.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Unfortunately we're multiplying at a rate much faster than our learning can keep up with
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
but time is running out for our species.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
so let's just hope we are fast enough to realize some basics of survival.
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
i am a strong believer of the survival of the fittest theory.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Me tooo
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
I adhere to it
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
in short, fuck the weaklings. if you dont think you can live to see tomorrow, then dont and spare the rest of us of the trouble.
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Wanna know what I believe?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
we're all fucked in the end?
[s.y.n.a.e.s.t.h.e.s.i.a] [SYN08] says:
lol
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
I believe that survival of the fittest, at least for people, won't be around much longer - at least in the traditional sense
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
Actually no... I have this weird perverse faith
Fuck "Hip Hop Culture" says:
That somehow we will persist