Well, that’s pretty much the title. I had to put it in all caps for youtube though. Somehow it seems more appropriate, even though I like the lowercase as well…
fuck youtube. (mia’s born free)
aaron moritz, June 19th 2010remember a few months ago i was saying how much i love youtube and then i started my own channel, well fuck them. i’m trying to re-upload my video ‘criminal reality’ to fix some audio and interlacing issues, and now it’s being held by fox because of the Simpsons clip at the start. even though the original video is still live. it’s the exact same video, but one is ok, and one isn’t? they said it’ll take ten to fourteen days to settle when I filed a counter-notice claiming fair use.
fuck them and their bowing to the corporatocracy,
they also removed all copies of mia’s video “born free”, because it contains graphic depictions of the truth. luckily, on the internet, once youtube has fully descended into corporate whoredom, there will always be a replacement waiting. so here’s mia’s video, on vimeo.
information cannot be stopped.
M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.
and yeah, I’m gonna keep using their service to upload my videos, because it’s convenient and useful, and I’m comfortable only in the fact that I am using what they offer against them.
my third video: the reason my site’s become a string of random youtube clips
aaron moritz, June 2nd 2010because I spend all my time editing this shit for you guys so like it bitches. :)
Criminal Reality (Imprisonment pt 2):
Not sure if it’ll stay working. Youtube was giving me some shit when I first uploaded it because it somehow auto-detected that simpsons clip at the beginning, copyright infringement and all that. Should be fine though, it’s all fair use as far as I can see.
visit my youtube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/saydaysago2008
but if i wait for a holiday, could it stop my fear?
aaron moritz, March 26th 2010I was wrestling with ‘everybody’s working for the weekend’ as the title of the post, but in the end I decided Vampire Weekend was hipper than Loverboy. Yes, I’ve basically turned to quotes and song lyrics as the titles for my articles .
So. If I wait for a holiday, could it stop my fear? Because that’s what they tell us. Sure you work 5-7 days a week until you’re too tired to do much else but watch tv, or, if you’re really ambitious, get drunk and party. As long as you aren’t thinking critically and openly challenging the system, well, your life is just as it should be.  Maybe not perfect, but hey, you get two weeks paid vacation, right? Can’t be all bad. We’re only asking for 96% of the weeks of the year, 71-85% of the days of the week, and 65% of your waking hours each day. And that’s not even counting all those paid holiday’s days you get. Almost one every month! What the FUCK are you complaining about, people?
We give you two weeks to travel, unwind, relax. Forget the stresses of the work day, the ones that eat at your soul and crumble your desire to do anything truly productive. It’s not our fault that by the time your vacation rolls around you’re too tired to be creative or inventive or even think. Maybe you aren’t drinking enough caffeine or eating enough addictive, high-calorie meals from McDonalds and Burger King.
Maybe the problem is you. Maybe you’re just lazy. It’s not the system that makes you that way, you were born lazy and you should be grateful we allow you to work for money, or you wouldn’t be motivated to do anything and society would collapse. We don’t dampen the intrinsic creative and inventive drive of the human spirit, human beings are lazy. The fact that 50% of people in the United States volunteer their time for free to various charities doesn’t mean anything. If we weren’t here to hold out the carrot you people would never walk.
Control over the people is responsible for all progress.
So take your break, your vacation, your weekend and enjoy it. If it doesn’t quite seem to be enough, well, that’s obviously a problem with you. Maybe you should go see a shrink, because you might be maladjusted to the human labour market.
reading fight club
aaron moritz, February 1st 2010Fight Club is one of my favorite movies. I’m reading the book and I noticed that this moment in the movie that never fails to give me chills isn’t there, which was dissapointing. This is the quote:
“God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables — slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
…complains that more guys don’t experiment (ie. want to have sex with me)
aaron moritz, January 9th 2010I think it’s really interesting how right now it’s much more prominent for girls to experiment with girls than guys with guys. No wait, not interesting, I meant shitty. For me. But fine, whatever, the thing that really gets me is the attitude people have that this is some sort of natural thing, it seems obvious for some reason that girls will experiment more than guys. I’ve been scoffed at for suggesting that guys could ever.
Ok first I have to get into what I think causes homosexuality. There is no gay gene, at least not that anyone’s found yet. Just like there’s no criminal gene and there’s no nice gene, behaviour does not seem to stem, in general, from the genetic level. The best they’ve found are some dna markers that seem to correlate with homosexuality, sometimes. All that means is that more gay people have this marker or gene or whatever than straight people. But not all of us have it, and not everyone who has it is gay. I don’t understand why some gay people keep hoping for this genetic basis like it will somehow validate our existence. I guess maybe they think it’ll shut up those maniacs who want to cure homosexuality. The proper argument to use there is not that it can’t be changed because it’s genetic, it’s that there’s no reason it should be changed.
So back to the original point. Since it’s not like females are genetically somehow more open to experimentation. It’s completely societal. And it’s not even like it’s been a constant in every society throughout history. In fact most of these examples support the idea that same sex behaviour is mostly environmental. The most commonly known example is that in Ancient Greece, most men of any type of stature had a male lover. It was just something every guy did, usually in addition to his wife. ‘Male Azande warriors in the northern Congo routinely took on young male lovers between the ages of twelve and twenty, who helped with household tasks and participated in intercrural sex [[thigh fucking...hahahah]]’. For native americans, “Two-Spirit” individuals were shamans, in fact they were usually considered to have powers greater than regular shamans, and had regular sex with “normal” male tribe members. Homosexuality was an ‘integral’ part of buddhist monastic life and the samurai tradition in Japan. Every Roman Emperor (except for one) had male lovers. A few cultures in Papua New Guinea even went as far as to consider heterosexuality at all a sin. Though I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around how that worked.
*All this info raped from wikipedia.
So my point is that more guys would experiment (hopefully with me) if we didn’t live in such a repressed fucking bullshit Christian society. Because apparently when everyone else is doing it almost every single guy in a society is ready to get down with a dude or two.
While I’m sounding bitter I just want to add that I wish gay guys would stop internalizing these offensive fucking stereotypes that they show on Will & Grace and Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Well, more like I wish the stereotypes weren’t there to internalize. I could go on about this but I’m at risk of offending some of my own people (I think it’s dumb we are even grouped together based on having one behavioural trait in common) and I don’t want to do that because us gay people have it rough enough.
battlestar galacticas ending sucked but the shows cool
aaron moritz, December 30th 2009i’ll admit I’m a huge nerd and this is one of my favorite shows ever because it’s dark and depressing and moving and well written and all that good stuff. the whole premise obviously bothers me with machines rebelling against their master and all that when i can’t wait for us to get intelligent machines together, but that’s fine it’s sci fi. but the ending of the series (and i realize i’m a year late to be commenting on this) was an even bigger bummer than the shows premise. they decide to give up all their technology and start over on a new planet as like hunter gatherers or some shit. they just give up. we can’t learn to trust ourselves with this technology. there’s no chance of humans evolving and learning to grow as a species. no we just have to start over and it’ll only end with us fucking everything up again just like this time. no learning from the past. what a shitty fucking ending.
08.25.2009
aaron moritz, August 25th 2009Shouldn’t reality matter? Nice ideas can give comfort, but didn’t everything that has made our survival, and our major advancements possible come from observations of reality? An indifference or inattention to what is real, incompetence, ignorance, a fear of skepticism, or the rejection of new ideas (though sometimes, i think we do need to reject some old ideas) can all deflect us from knowing truth. These things rob us of our abilities to discover reality, to reason. I think what is true matters, and I think believing untruths and unprovable truths is, at best of times, slowing down the evolution of our knowledge and our consciousness, and at the worst is dividing us so sharply that we hurt, fight, and war with each other.