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Victory Is Ours!

from Blood Meridian by damezumari

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this song combines some of themes of the other songs on the recording. One of the things that I harp on about continually, because I see it in so many facets of life everyday, is the tendency of human beings to ignore and to assume the inevitability of the status quo, and to rationalize backward from the way things are to the way that they have to be. For instance, many assume that the American form of capitalism is necessarily the best form of society simply because America, which happens to have a relatively free market economy, has become so dominant in the world over the past 50 years. This isn’t necessarily the case, though. Just because something is a certain way by no means indicates that it will either continue to be so or that it had to be that way in the first place. I do place a lot of stock in systems theory and systematic understandings of social, economic, and historical processes, but if you think of the weather as a system, which it is, then try to think of what “the best” weather would be, or whether that state would, once reached, remain unchanged as the pinnacle of the weather system, then perhaps you can see why a systematic understanding of economic processes tells you nothing about what the ‘best’ economy would be. Economy is a means, and this country does not engage in meaningful conversations about the ends for which that economy should aim, especially for whose ends. People instead buy one of a few rationalizations of why things are the way they are, and this choice is usually dependant on the home into which they are born, and they get on with their daily life rather than take any interest in the world around them. This works well when one’s society is already on top of the pile, but as the US will likely find out soon enough, there is a very little separating us from the other side of luck.

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can’t trust the diagnosis when the symptoms are so conscious the skin is separating the touch is irritating ignorant of the scene of decay just look away and away

can’t find our better angels wings clipped by the weight of the details light footed well-lidded, unattached, and enwrapped and enrapt intention’s sole invention

and just because it was and it is and it will then it must have been yet we let it happen again and again

all men must be tested all order is agency all possibility and no responsibility as though history disproved morality

and just because it was and it is and it will then it must have been yet we let it happen again and again

where is the reason in this validation? in this victory?

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from Blood Meridian, released October 1, 2009

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damezumari Tulsa, Oklahoma

the band - started march 2003, from tulsa,OK. and san diego, ca
in its last recorded form:
craig maricle - drums
chris skillern - bass, voice
stephen paul - guitar, voice
eric titterud - guitar, voice
the band has previously included:
doug johnston (drums) and daniel sutliff (bass), who both played on the first three demos,
blake foster (drums), and aaron thornhill (bass) and mike laughlin (drums) ... more

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