Let’s put our heads together, and start a new country up
Cuyahoga – R.E.M.
I know many of you reading this hate R.E.M. ‘s music but please take a look at the full lyrics of that song that came out in 1986. here – Cuyahoga Full Lyrics Thirty years later I still think that it’s the best plan for the people both here and for the kids. Let’s do it for the kids.
A trick I learned from the phone companies; … when things get too shitty, you simply declare bankruptcy, take down the sign, maybe merge with another company, fire a few people, and start over the next day with a new name.
It works. Ask At&T.
The people who work for those companies and make the phones work… in every incarnation, they are the same people actually doing the work. Keeping the towers and switchboards and big computers going… the people don’t change, just the logo on their biweekly paychecks.
I, personally, worked through three bank mergers and we never missed a day. We just had to change how we answered to phone.
Revolution doesn’t have to be that big of a deal. Perhaps, there is a peaceful solution.
If we can get all of the blue minded people to move to N.E. , and get the red minded people out, we can succeed from the union and establish a new country. One free of the ignorance of the past, free of the American national debt, and free of the bigotry, hatred, racism, sexism, and unbridled capitalism.
Marketing a Revolution
People are mad and fed up. I can see it, I can hear it. I can feel it.
So.. What’s next? As I see it, .. we (decent people) need a common goal. Simple and broad enough that it will appeal to all decent people.
A trick I learned from the Christians, …give them a Heaven to look forward to. A Big Rock Candy Mountain… Valhalla, …call it what you will.
My suggestion is, we call it:
Cuyahoga
The word has Native American roots. It translates into Crooked River. It’s a valley in Ohio. By naming our new country Cuyahoga, we are paying tribute to the peoples that were on this land before the European settlers came here.
It is also the name of a river in Ohio that caught on fire in 1969 due to the amount of pollution that had been dumped into it. By naming our new country Cuyahoga, we are remembering the failures of unbridled capitalism.
It’s going to be great kids… a 365 day a year music festival with free pot, free food and free health care… a real Big Rock Candy Mountain!