Stop putting a dollar sign on everything

Fuck you. Absolutely fuck you.
Just let us have one thing, just one piece of music, or one film, or one artwork, or something... something that we can call our own and keep for ourselves. Just one fucking piece of expression that does not get enveloped, chewed up, spat out and cheapened by you stupid, unimaginative cunts in your fucking advertising la-la land where only money and demographic spike points mean anything.

You have no souls. You have not one fucking inkling of what it means to have personal attachment to a piece of art, because if you did you wouldn't auction off the work of so many talented people to the highest bidding multinational, faceless fucking company. I am pleading with you, me the lowly serf to your towering example of misplaced societal power, I am pleading with you to leave us the fuck alone. I am pleading with you to leave just one stone unturned - one aspect of our lives that you do not cheapen and ruin in your pathological pursuit of AS MUCH MONEY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE.

You people are blind drones, wasting your creativity and tainting that of others with this worthless contribution to this world. You're fucking blights on the landscape, ruinous blots that take everything and giving nothing back. One day you will be held accountable for your actions - when the last billboard has been sold, the last song licensed and the last original idea stolen the people of this world will sit back and realise how you have destroyed the heart and soul of a once fertile land.

"What did you do when you were younger, Granddad?"
"Well, Granddaughter, I cheapened the emotional impact of music and art for millions of people so that I could sell them running shoes that they didn't need, and made a fortune off companies that exploited little brown and yellow people in far-away lands."
"Granddad, you're a prick."

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currently listening to: the slow decline of western civilisation

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