#159th Basic School

[bikerlovertexas]

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[ericleo108]

12/24/2024

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Luigi Mangione - The philosophy behind Eric Leo 108's song and reasons why the American People have had a positive reaction to the alleged murder of Brain Thompson

In this treatise you will learn why I compare Luigi to Robin Hood, how America celebrates the death of Jordan Neely, how America doesn’t believe murder is wrong, about the government’s ‘social contract’ with the people and how Luigi is defending the general will after the state failed to protect it. This is my 98th official release and 159th track published. The beat is by Omar, the track was produced by Manu, and the cover art is by artwork gang. 

Luigi’s alleged murder is a great example of Americans defending their ethics. Not your morals, but society's ethics, which will be discussed. This is a lesson in civics. I portray Luigi as Robin Hood on the cover of this artwork because he is Robin Hood. In the same way Robin Hood was loyal to the King but rivaled the sheriff, so is Luigi loyal to America and Americans but rivals the power structure. The other similarity is sociologist think America has moved into an era of technofeudalism, just how Robin Hood lived during feudalism.

To be abundantly clear, in the track, I am more or less speaking on Luigi’s behalf IF he did do it and the lore is right; while giving context to other similar cases that were handled with a positive manor, but from the eyes of racist power in America. It’s only when the victim is white, wealthy, and powerful is it a tragedy and needs to be condemned.  

I have no plans of harming anyone and I do not condone violence. But I accept it when it’s morally justified. See it’s morally justified for Ben Shapiro too, it’s just his morals suck and are from the perspective of white supremicy, so his morals are not ethical. The main point I wanted to get across is make healthcare not-for-profit, I say this in both the first and second verse. Also law should protect the patient so insurance can’t deny a medically necessary procedure as ordered by your doctor.

First of all. Let’s get to the logic of “murder is wrong.” Okay all murder is wrong. So war is wrong. And America is the most militeristic nation on earth. As a consequence the number one cause of death for kids in America is guns due to school shootings. So ban guns. And we all know your tax dollars are going to bomb children in Palestine. So ban bombs; or save me the “murder is wrong.” Basically lead by example, stop doing it then. Which also means stopping the ones that do that in your society at all levels. Otherwise, don’t give me the “murder is wrong” line. You’re telling people not to throw stones when you, or your family friends, or society is throwing stones. Murder may be immoral to you but it’s not always unethical.

You’ll find that murder is only justifiable to the state when the state does it. Believe it or not, I’m down, as long as you live in a true democracy and adhere to the general will (which will be discussed). We have trials in courts and we have regulations to protect indviduals.  You could make the argument that we collectively as a society dictate who lives or dies based on our laws. The problem comes with the fact we don’t live in a democracy anymore. Everyone knows it’s an oligarchy. Trials are a sham because the judge was placed there on politcal pretences and the incoming administration is hostile to common sense let alone regulation due to ties with big industry that is so wealthy their leaving the planet. And saying the state has the exclusive right to kill would only work if the laws were morally just. Otherwise you’re protecting a group of people (in America’s case, billionaires) and not the whole, which like I said in the beginning, is a great lesson in civics. 

As a case example of how American authority looks at murder we have Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny. Leeja Miller does a much better break down that I recommend. In short, Neely was an unhoused black man on the streets without adequate social services so he naturally freaked out in public on the subway. Penny was there and restrained him in a chokehold that took his life after being fully aware of his actions. Penny was acquitted, got off on the murder, and got the meet President Trump. So “In the eyes of America’s (racist staring) captialist are healing (and) killing niggers is caring.” 

Healthcare insurance companies have killed hundreds of thousdands of people by denying claims. In the song I say its a hundred thousand lice but I know it’s more. That is what is morally and ethically appalling though. The people making the decisions to end people’s lives being full aware that their denials will do so because it makes them oodles of money, are the ones that should be in prison for life or the death penalty. The fact that the government hasn’t corrected this leaves people to take matters into their own hands. If Mangione did do it, it’s a failure of the state for not protecting the man’s rights and the contract healthcare insurance wouldn’t honor. 

The state condemns Mangione but he’s only doing what the government should have been doing. The reality of the situation is America is an oligarchy and money can buy you power and representation because laws are absent to stop them and they use that influence to justify killing hundreds of thousands both foriegn (Palestine) and domestic (school and healthcare). I don’t want to hear it from conscervatives, and I usually don’t. If you think January 6th is justified, you definitely should support Luigi because he used arguable less violent tactics and was even more ethical in what he did.

You can expect more Luigi Mangione tracks. I have a lot to say about this. Until we get universal healthcare I can’t have a job that makes me earned income and keep my healthcare. I can work part time but I’m capped at like $1000 a month. I got into graduate school but I can’t afford tuition and been waiting to move to the area. Where I live there is not much opportunity for me to be successful. I am on a waiting list to move to Kalamazoo on section 8 housing; and I’ve been waiting 3 years. Healthcare effects every part of my life and I can’t have a normal life in America because I can’t afford it due to my labor power being exploited for healthcare.

It’s also worth mentioning, I don’t like using the N word. I did it here because the whole song is shocking and it’s kinda the icing on the cake. As you can see, I’m a sociogist about this and need to be able to use words and say them with meaning to educate. So in my defense, the n-word here is being used poinantly in defense of black people to basically say “stop treating black people like niggers;” and in a larger context “you don’t care about murder and morals.”

Tid bit of cosmic love. I know the following because I’ve been looking into Jacques Rousseau to explain the cumulative will from my book “Can and will do” which is related to Rousseau’s general will. The following is a lesson in philosophy.

The social contact philosophy is about the relationship between the people and government. The contemporary philosophers that explore the social contract are Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jacques Rousseau. Hobes thinks God gives power. Locke and Rousseau think the people give power but Locke believes in limited government to Protect life, liberty, and property. Rousseau believed the general will or community gives power. What I will be arguing is that Luigi used violence to protect the general will/community. It’s just easier to strip him of his rights if the state charges him with terrorism.

It used to be that kings ruled by divine right. Meaning everyone was relious so they didn’t really question the kings legitimacy. But the enlightenment revealed that the people give authority to the government. Thomas Hobbs believed that humans were innately destructive and if left to their devices, society would crumble. This is why Hobbs believed the leviathan should rule which is really tantamount to a monarch or dictator.

John Locke believed people had a blank slate and are not inherently destructive so if left to their devices people would find a way to better themselves and society. He believed in limited government to protect life, liberty, and property. Locke believed in a representative democracy, and that the people have the right to overthrow their leaders. He thought government should be limited and protect life, liberty, and property.

Rousseau thought that all the freedoms following Locke’s philosophy would lead to the corruption and destruction that Hobbes often elaborates on. He believed that social structures lead to corruption, envy and the destruction of society. Power inequality leads to corruption in Rousseau’s argument. If you strip away the social structures your left with real freedom and equality for the community, what he called, the “general will.” In this theory of general will decisions are made by the community and laws are representative of the community. It’s about what the majority of the community wants.

The us state and capitalist class want John Locke while the people want Rousseau. You’ll find that Luigi is representative of the general will and his actions are justified in protecting that interest. The majority of Americans want universal healthcare, and the whole society is permeated by the (metaphorical) stench of death and financial ruin from the healthcare industry. How many people have insurance companies killed by denying contracts again? How many children have died in school shootings? How many CEOs have died? 

All of a sudden when a powerful white man dies it’s some Greek tragedy. It’s clear this is about protecting wealth and power, not about justice; because if it were about Justice the state would make denying healthcare insurance claims illegal and show the same amount of force to healthcare CEOs as they did Luigi. Mangione is a hero for his bravery and strategically gave Thomas’s death meaning every American feels.

As Leeja Miler would tell you the resistance is violent and always has been. It’s the old saying, “When peaceful revolution is impossible, violence is inevitable.” Its really those in powers fault sometimes for not representing the people when violence to political figures and institutions happen. Just like it’s the states fault that Neely is dead from being unhoused. For Americans this means when Bernie is impossible, Luigi is inevitable

I suggest if the police don’t want this to happen again they change laws to represent the general will, instead of posturing to punish philosophically justifiable actions in opposition to unjust laws and power dynamics.

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss (Minnesota State Fair edition): So it's Opening Day--now what?!

Well, it's finally here, as in the initiation of the 2018 edition of the Minnesota State Fair, The Great Minnesota Get-Together even!

Which, it turns out, is the 159th edition, going back to the first Minnesota Territorial Fair in 1854 on Bridge Square (wherever that was) in downtown Minneapolis ... and ought technically be the 164th fair, were it not for no less than five years of cancellations, to wit:

1861 and 1862, because the Civil War and the Dakota Conflict jazz;

1893, because scheduling conflicts with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, at which Minnesota had a substantial presence;

1945, because fuel and tire and rationing for World War II; and

1946, because a Major Polio Outbreak.

And for 63 years running, going back to 1955, has consistently seen run-of-fair attendance exceed one million through the gates. Last year, you may recall, saw the final attendance at just under 2 million visitors over its 12-day run, ending Labour Day in a tradition going back to 1939, a concession to schools starting the new school term just after Labour Day.

What's interesting is that the Minnesota State Fairgrounds were previously the Ramsey County Poor Farm, which had been given to the Minnesota State Fair in 1885 after years of travelling around, making stops along the way in Fort Snelling, Red Wing, Rochester (several times, in fact), Winona, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Owatonna even ... and as I understand it, the Ramsey County Poor Farm site was offered to settle that dispute of the day over whether Minneapolis (which offered a site near Minnehaha Falls) or St. Paul should host the State Fair in perpetuity; the Poor Farm site, in what is now Falcon Heights, close to the University of Minnesota's Agricultural College campus even, was chosen because it was basically midway between the two. Fitting compromise, is it not?

But then again, one tradition Minnesota ought to adopt for Opening Day (especially as the fair's gates open at 6 am, of all hours) came from its southern neighbour, the Iowa State Fair, who a few years back offered early-risers on its Opening Day free corn dogs; the better, presumably, to set a new record in this respect. (Hopefully, later on in this series, I do plan to discuss the passion for foods "on-a-stick" which the corn dog seems to have engendered at Minnesota's own end-of-summer exercise. Never mind that the most popular such, the Pronto Pup, as introduced in 1947, has a wheat-flour batter!)

At any event, I trust you will certainly have a wonderful time with yours truly in spirit and passion otherwise known as The Great Minnesota Get-Together, managing to remain all the more successful even with rival such, allowing for demographic differences and different schedules, in some cases losing attendance. Let alone the Iowa State Fair seeming to hog all the attention among state fairs--sorry, Sooee Pig, Daisy Mayhem even ...