Go get some paint (don't fucking buy it, scrounge it up) — some white spray paint being your easiest move... it's around. Find one of these signs, and tag it.
STOP is already there. Just add "making money"... and walk away. Fuck, skip away... cuz you just had some fun.
STOP MAKING MONEY!
Mantra.
I always want to spraypaint "this culture is insane" on billboards. Your idea is better.
ReplyDeleteI have a few friends who work in sign shops and could make perfectly colored stickers, red background with white letters in the same font but smaller, saying "making money" -- perfect for adding to the signs! I'm going to see them this coming Tues at a BBQ and I think I'll talk to them about it.
ReplyDelete,maybe karl could get his friends also to make ..those michael palin for pres. signs ...that i suggest over on whois' ..on the ..inner outer party party post .. .. / i like that drawing from eloise ..of tee vee... but it seems ..too taking and using with out asking to use it as your header.. , ?
ReplyDeleteNah, not better, just different, Mr. Ethan.
ReplyDeleteKarl, enjoy that BBQ, my friend.
And Anne, oh Anne... you're a charmer. Thanks for the ramble question. You might be my first troll/stooge. Wherever that image came from (I don't know what Eloise is), you've... in a very odd fashion, yipped the pleasantness right out of it... so thanks. Time for something new.
,..it's sad that you didn't know even..what you were taking the drawing from.. ..go have a look now at least ..it was a fun book.. ..of eloise . the saddest thing that i have been aware of on line over the last six years ,almost seven that i have been .. is the way people take and use ..not even acknowledging where they have taken from.. / and i'm not a troll.. i'm a very kind ,gentle person in truth ..as gentle as they come..
ReplyDelete,oh, and i liked the.. stop making money ..i just got so bothered by eloise being there with out a word of where from .. that i forgot to say ..
ReplyDeleteTactless. A snappy mood, I'm in.
ReplyDeleteYes, borrowing images without acknowledgment is quite regrettable. Goodnight, gentle one.
Anne is not a troll or a stooge. She is a living breathing example that this culture is fucking insane and by its standards and norms classifies the eminently sane, the eminently human among us as insane and inhuman.
ReplyDeleteDig the new header.
ReplyDeleteAnd you have me and Earthgirl talking about our vegetable garden next season. Thanks.
I like Ethan's idea better, since it's more inclusive, less vague and doesn't create confusion for people who are making money so they can pay rent, see a doctor and feed their kids.
ReplyDeleteI liked the Stop Eating Animals campaign which used the technique you are proposing.
I have to say, I'm not really feeling the 'money is a construct' thingy that's popping up here and there. I don't think I understand it.
"the saddest thing... is the way people take and use ..not even acknowledging where they have taken from"
ReplyDeleteThere was an interesting article in Harper's a while back about the many decontextualized uncredited uses of one particular image - a Sandinista throwing a Molotov - which includes very interesting commentary from both an artist who used the image and from the photographer who took it.
On The Rights of Molotov Man
Justin: I was leaning that a' way.
ReplyDeleteThanks BDR... that jasmine can melt stress from about 10 feet. Go big on the garden... BIG. Make sure you fuck up at least a few things — a good memory tool.
FF: It is intentionally designed to create confusion. Confusion leads to thought... or complete rejection of whatever caused the confusion (the latter perhaps being more likely).
Needing money to have a place to live, receive medical care, or eat... these are all — to state the obvious — colossal problems.
Good luck with your thinking...
Cool. I thought perhaps there was some obvious meaning that was obvious to everyone but me, something that assumed that life without money is easy and desirable.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure one is better than the other, FF. Plenty of people would respond to Ethan's message with "yeah, but what's the alternative?" rather than nodding their heads in agreement and contemplating how they could change their lives.
ReplyDeleteNot every message is universal. Most aren't.
Me, I'm still partial to "DIE YUPPIE SCUM"
"Not every message is universal. Most aren't."
ReplyDeleteTrue that. I guess I just expect things that signify public protest to be explicit, not perplexing, like the Stop Eating Animals campaign that used stop signs in the same way. I only stated my perplexity because I have been seeing things like 'Money Doesn't Exist' popping up on other blogs in the same general neighborhood (IOZ, Stump Lane) and have been somewhat confounded by them as I often am when 'Social Construct' is incorrectly conflated with variations on false/non-existent.
The "Stop Making Money" mantra is not meant to incite public protest. Protest is a joke... because the powerful aren't listening, and protesting is not exactly direct action (depends on the style, I suppose).
ReplyDelete"Money doesn't exist", I'd say, is meant to encourage one to realize that money is an invention, a fiction... created for a very specific type of domination — domination by the issuer of the currency.
By the way, STOP EATING ANIMALS is flawed if it is taken to mean: "Humans should not (moral claim) eat animals" (and I happen to not eat them, so that might lend a little weight to this claim)...
Stop Eating Industrialized Food — that's a message I'd get behind. Eating animals is only problematic if the predator (the humans) don't care for their prey. Then you have a fucking mess on your hands.
fee fee, ..why do you like the ..of stop..eating ..animals ..so much .. i am a plant nibbler ..since the age of three ( yes 3 wow..ask me about that sometime ..) .. .humane..of farming..etc ..is the main concern for me .. /tee.. , of the ..full of power ..not listening.. oddly ..they listen to me .. i make an interesting living ..as a humorist..with drawings and a few words.. i'm well known in france and a few other places ..
ReplyDelete"The "Stop Making Money" mantra is not meant to incite public protest. Protest is a joke... because the powerful aren't listening, and protesting is not exactly direct action (depends on the style, I suppose)."
ReplyDeleteI didn't say it was meant to incite protest. I interpreted it, wrongly, as protest. I don't agree that protest is a joke, however, even if I accepted the idea that powerful people invariably ignore it since protest isn't simply a mass lobbying effort aimed always at the rulers.
"Money doesn't exist", I'd say, is meant to encourage one to realize that money is an invention, a fiction... created for a very specific type of domination — domination by the issuer of the currency. "
Right. I don't, however, find that to be a particularly useful insight - particularly when enunciated by people with privilege, like IOZ, for instance - nor is the phrasing I have been coming across - such as my example - particularly useful for making the point to someone who is not there already. It's kind of like telling a guy in jail in Queens that laws and the NYPD don't exist.
Whether a person eats animals or not is irrelevant to how valid their moral position on it is, though not eating them suggests that they consider the matter seriously. Also, since most people eat factory produced animal products, your objections to Stop Eating Animals seems like hair-splitting, even though some, though not all, of the folks behind the campaign are animal rights absolutists. Stop Eating Animals is likely primarily meant to provoke people to think and explore, the way Stop Making Money ostensibly is, but with a more specific social objective in mind.
"fee fee, ..why do you like the ..of stop..eating ..animals "
ReplyDeleteI have no particular attachment to it though I think repurposing a stop sign this way is clever and the host's idea just reminded me of it. Comparing his variation to it is a useful point of departure for contemplating public acts of whatchamacallit.