sábado, 16 de enero de 2010

Tote King - Interludio OSR - Eufemismos y Exageraciones por David Bravo

David Bravo, abogado y miembro del OSR, al igual que Tote King.
Toteking – Interludio Osr

TEMA: EUFEMISMOS Y EXAGERACIONES
Grabado en una conferencia en Granada el dia 23/03/06



La primera de estas mentiras es el propio nombre: piratería. Es algo habitual en los medios de comunicación jugar con el lenguaje. Ustedes lo habrán visto, utilizan eufemismos para suavizar ciertos problemas graves, y utilizan también exageraciones para convertir en problemas graves lo que son realidades para nosotros inofensivas. Por ejemplo, en cuanto a los eufemismos, es habitual que ya no existan las guerras sino las intervenciones militares donde hay efectos colaterales, que son esos que saltan por los aires sin saber de qué va la cosa cada vez que hay una incursión aérea. ¿Es casi poético eh? Una incursión aérea.

Ya no hay paro en el paradisíaco mundo del eufemismo, sino que hay tasa natural de desempleo. Ya no hay pobres, sino carentes, ya no hay ricos, sino que los hay pudientes. Políticamente correcto es como se llama al lenguaje que utilizan en los medios de comunicación, es como se llama en realidad al disfraz que usan las palabras para salir en televisión. En cuanto a esto de los eufemismos, es curioso porque cada vez que leo los periódicos me siento mucho menos preocupado por mis problemas, porque ahora sé que mi economía no se va al garete como pensaba, sino que simplemente está experimentando un crecimiento negativo, es decir que crece, pero que crece para abajo, crece en la dirección incorrecta. Y los ricos que me roban por el camino para que eso sea así, no son ladrones sino que son cleptómanos, que se enriquecieron por un golpe de suerte, que es como decir que se enriquecieron como por arte de magia.

En cuanto a las exageraciones ocurre igual y tiene el mismo objeto, que es cambiar la percepción que tenemos de la realidad, y es ahí donde aparece en escena la palabra piratería. El hecho de que se establezca una equivalencia moral entre las personas que se descargan discos de música en internet y las personas que asaltaban los barcos, mataban a la tripulación, la asesinaban, la saqueaban, la violaban algunos, los más viciosos. eso obviamente no es una casualidad sino que lo que se pretende es que una palabra así, piratería, con tantas connotaciones negativas, ya te esté dando una pista de lo que debes pensar, porque es complicado enunciar una frase como "yo estoy a favor de la piratería" sin que suene a demencia senil.

lunes, 4 de enero de 2010

Immortal Technique - Bush Knocked Down The Towers


Artist: Immortal Technique f/ Mos Def
Album: Bin Laden 12"
Song: Bin Laden
Lyrics:
[Mos Def - talking]
Man, you hear this bullshit they be talkin'
Every day, man
It's like these motherfuckers is just like professional liars
YouknowwhatI'msayin? It's wild
Listen
[Hook - Mos Def]
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
[Verse 1 - Immortal Technique]
I pledge no allegiance, nigga fuck the president's speeches
I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches
The dirty water that bleaches your soul and your facial features
Drownin' you in propaganda that they spit through the speakers
And if you speak about the evil that the government does
The Patriot Act'll track you to the type of your blood
They try to frame you, and say you was tryna sell drugs
And throw a federal indictment on niggaz to show you love
This shit is run by fake Christians, fake politicians
Look at they mansions, then look at the conditions you live in
All they talk about is terrorism on television
They tell you to listen, but they don't really tell you they mission
They funded Al-Qaeda, and now they blame the Muslim religion
Even though Bin Laden, was a CIA tactician
They gave him billions of dollars, and they funded his purpose
Fahrenheit 9/11, that's just scratchin' the surface
[Hook - Mos Def]
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
[Verse 2 - Immortal Technique]
They say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam
But that's bullshit, I'll show you why it's totally wrong
Cuz if another country invaded the hood tonight
It'd be warfare through Harlem, and Washington Heights
I wouldn't be fightin' for Bush or White America's dream
I'd be fightin' for my people's survival and self-esteem
I wouldn't fight for racist churches from the south, my nigga
I'd be fightin' to keep the occupation out, my nigga
You ever clock someone who talk shit, or look at you wrong?
Imagine if they shot at you, and was rapin' your moms
And of course Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons
We sold him that shit, after Ronald Reagan's election
Mercenary contractors fightin' a new era
Corporate military bankin' off the war on terror
They controllin' the ghetto, with the failed attack
Tryna distract the fact that they engineerin' the crack
So I'm strapped like Lee Malvo holdin' a sniper rifle
These bullets'll touch your kids, and I don't mean like Michael
Your body be sent to the morgue, stripped down and recycled
I fire on house niggaz that support you and like you
Cuz innocent people get murdered in the struggle daily
And poor people never get shit and struggle daily
This ain't no alien conspiracy theory, this shit is real
Written on the dollar underneath the Masonic seal
(I don't rap for dead presidents
I'd rather see the president dead
It's never been said but I set precedents)--[Eminem]
[Hook - Mos Def]
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
Bin Laden didn't blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)--[Jadakiss]
(Shady Records was 80 seconds away from the towers
Some cowards fucked with the wrong building, they meant to hit ours)-- [Eminem]

miércoles, 23 de diciembre de 2009