The Dress Ups - Infoholics (this is not a culture)

B major rehearsal stereoized mix They keep changing the rules it never ends By the time we adapt they've changed again we try to learn because we cannot earn it gives us something to do while the whole world burns myy favourite musicians all work at the university but i can't regulate my emotions to focus on studies (adhd) it's not academic to me it affects me emotionally a "culture" (capitalism) in flux perpetually burns everyone out eventually you can't play a game if the rules constantly change only a fool would think you can win when those in power change the rules on a whim growth for growth sake makes life hell the ideology of a cancer cell sick of society's impossible / unrealistic demands in a climate of uncertainty how do we make plans? we can't spend our entire lives imprisoned in schools because those in power keep changing the rules we are wasting our time we look like fools we are made obsolete everytime they upgrade our tools we can't pass on our wisdom to future generations because they'll be growing up in completely different situations they can't build on shoulders of giants what they inherit from us is irrelevant - our roles reversed now we have kids so we can learn from them instead how all the new gadgets work xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx my favourite musicians all work at the university but i can't regulate my emotions to focus on studies (adhd) (learning disability) it's not academic to me it affects me emotionally a "culture" (capitalism) in flux perpetually burns everyone out eventually you can't play a game if the rules constantly change only a fool would think you can win when those in power change the rules on a whim growth for growth sake makes life hell the ideology of a cancer cell sick of society's impossible / unrealistic demands in a climate of uncertainty how do we make plans? we can't spend our entire lives imprisoned in schools because those in power keep changing the rules we are wasting our time we look like fools we are made obsolete every time they upgrade our tools we can't pass on our wisdom to future generations because they'll be growing up in completely different situations they can't build on shoulders of giants what they inherit from us is irrelevant - our roles reversed now we have kids so we can learn from them instead how all the new gadgets work your success in this society is determined by how quickly you can reinvent your entire personality that's why grifters (who believe in nothing) make all the money if you believe in nothing (your identity can remain fluid) you can be more agile there is no cost to reinvent yourself you invested nothing, you just co-opted a style (just a consumer of a style) you can ride the latest trends like surfers ride waves to the shore while anti intellectuals vote for fascists and democracy is no more probably why they give trans folk so much grief because they actually want to be something concrete instead of letting themselves be blown like a leaf and selling out, adopting a fake set of beliefs (to "compete") it's not a fucking culture if it's always under renovation there's no tradition to hand down to the next generation chaos is a feature not a bug that's why everyone's on drugs because no one can keep up all our institutions are corrupt everyone's kept on a treadmill learning while the world keeps burning we are guinea pigs force fed information and you say it's our fault we have no concentration once we used to believe in prophets those with the power to predict now we only believe in profits spiritually sick hypocrites I thought I had a fetish for education but it's just anxiety on my mind because the rules keep changing and i keep slipping further and further behind precedents // citations: whitney houston - i believe children are our future pink floyd - we don't need no education bill hicks - what you reading for? james earthenware - information age