{"id":68516,"date":"2024-06-09T16:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68516"},"modified":"2024-06-09T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:23:03","slug":"will-the-revolution-be-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68516","title":{"rendered":"Will the Revolution Be Televised?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Will the Revolution Be Televised?<\/a><\/h3>\n

That depends. Will we have water? Electricity? Who will revolt and over what?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Detroit Rebellion of 1967<\/a>. In the course of five days, 43 were killed, 33 black and 10 white. 1,189 were injured and 7,200 people arrested. National Guardsmen fired over 150,000 bullets during the riot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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You will not be able to stay home, brother
\nYou will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
\nYou will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
\nSkip out for beer during commercials
\nBecause the revolution will not be televised<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 1971, Gil Scott-Heron released the song\u00a0The Revolution Will Not Be Televised f<\/em>rom his album\u00a0Pieces of Man<\/em>. It was a ground-breaking song, a precursor to rap backed by the great jazz bassist Ron Carter, but more importantly it was a politically charged protest with relevance today, a cry against oppression, and an expression of anger against the mass media which was co-opting the civil rights movement while the Vietnam War raged on.<\/p>\n

Gil\u2019s sarcastic indictment of commercial culture at a time when the oppression of systemic racism blew up, rings true today, in the age of 24\/7 brainwashing. The commercial-industrial entertainment complex races on, if anything more pernicious than 53 years ago, with journalism weaker than ever, and a proliferation of malevolent outlets of outright lies and propaganda, pioneered by FOX \u201cnews.\u201d AM radio is filled with fringe lunatics. I occasionally turn it on during long car drives to get a pulse on crazy, and the internet is littered with similarly unhinged outlets.<\/p>\n

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Aftermath of Detroit riots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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