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You can't fight city hall, death and taxes.

Street Manifesto · Waking Life (2001)

You can't fight city hall, death and taxes.

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Don't talk about politics or religion.

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1You can't fight city hall, death and taxes.
En la escenaThe speaker opens by quoting everyday surrender lines as if they were common sense, then turns on them.
Ejemplo cotidianoThe neighbors tried to fight city hall over the new parking rules.
Ejemplo cotidianoYou can't fight city hall, but you can bring a folding chair.
2Don't talk about politics or religion.
3This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda rolling across the picket line.
4" Lay down, G.I. Lay down, G.I."
5We saw it all through the 20th Century.
6And now in the 21st Century, it's time to stand up and realize...
7that we should not allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze.
8We should not submit to dehumanization.
9I don't know about you, but I'm concerned with what's happening in this world.
10I'm concerned with the structure.
11I'm concerned with the systems of control,
12those that control my life and those that seek to control it even more!
13I want freedom! That's what I want!
14And that's what you should want!
15It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose and just shovel the greed, the hatred, the envy and, yes, the insecurities...
16because that is the central mode of control-- make us feel pathetic, small...
17so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny.
18We have got to realize that we're being conditioned on a mass scale.
19Start challenging this corporate slave state!
20The 21st Century is gonna be a new century, not the century of slavery,
21not the century of lies and issues of no significance...
22and classism and statism and all the rest of the modes of control!
23It's gonna be the age of humankind...
24standing up for something pure and something right!
25What a bunch of garbage-- liberal Democrat, conservative Republican.
26It's all there to control you. Two sides of the same coin.
27Two management teams bidding for control!
28The C.E.O. job of Slavery, Incorporated!
29The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of lies!
30I'm sick of it, and I'm not gonna take a bite out of it! Do you got me?
31Resistance is not futile. We're gonna win this thing.
32Humankind is too good! We're not a bunch of underachievers!
33We're gonna stand up and we're gonna be human beings!
34We're gonna get fired up about the real things, the things that matter: creativity and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit!
35Well, that's it! That's all I got to say! It's in your court.

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It starts with everyday excuses and builds into a call to action, using repetition, metaphor and direct address.

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