About Me
I got my Myspace layout from pYzam .
How's it going New York? I chose to speak to you in a square because I think we're kind of conditioned to listen to people when they're in the shape of a square, and also here in Hollywood, this is where we give people what they want; violence, I guess. That's what it seems to come down to. What I wanted to talk to everyone today about, uh, I don't really wanna preach I just wanna more bring up some questions. And, uh, since I always tend to be a scapegoat I thought we'd talk about blame. Right now everyone wants to blame music, they want to blame movies, but uh, you know have we forgotten that we have a dead guy hanging from a tree in our living rooms? Uh, uh...and that's something we've worshipped all our lives. If you think about the crucifixes, the...the greatest mass market piece of merchandise in the history of the world. I've always found that to be kind of interesting. We haven't really sat down and talked about that on the news. And...I also wondered why nobody cares when an adult commits some senseless act of violence. They don't want to have a reason why. It's only when a kid does it, you know; Oswald. Oh, well, he was a Commie. Uh, Timothy McVay; oh, he's crazy. What about Bill Clinton? Why'd he shoot all those bombs and kill all those foreigners? Oh, well, he's the President, you know; that's the American way. But uh I think what's really begun to confuse people now why we're in this state of, uh chaos, and uh pc nonsensical uptightness it's-it's uh...white teenagers. That's the real enigma. Why are they mad? Uh, they're middle class, they're white, they're spoiled, uh, their parents even buy some of them guns, you know, what do they have to be mad about? Um...is it because they know America is a lie? Is it because we make them feel like they're never good enough? You know; you're never good enough for the scholarship, for the car, for the girl, uh, never good enough to be famous for fifteen minutes. Uh...is it the first race in kindergarten, where it starts? When Mom’s yelling "Get the white ribbon, get the white ribbon!" "Oh...I got the yellow ribbon...†well, Mom's "Oh, well, you know, it's okay, it's okay,†you know. Then uh, high school football games and soccer moms scream "Kill him, kill him!" and...Ancient Rome reappears, you got moms, you got kids. They all want blood, you know, they always have. It's not new. You know, uh...people, people pretend like uh, just because uh...Maury Povich...uh....or Fox news....or...Montel Williams says 'Times are violent' that it's something...that it's brand new. But uh, the thing that kinda struck me that has been avoided and ignored because people always want to point the finger at some like me because I'm an obvious and easy target because I look like I cause problems...and, and I do. You know, I try to. But I think just like the gladiator....uh, the sports hero is the icon and the status quo you know more than James Dean or Elvis ever was. You know, he's in the Wheaties, he's at McDonalds, he's in the movie...you know, he even has his own talk show. Well, he did, in some cases...Well...what...what is that saying to kids? When we think about it for a second; Sports. Uh, physical prowess is more important than uh, intelligence, knowledge? You know, is that encouraging America to be not only more violent but dumber? Uh...are we going backwards on the evolution charts? You know, I actually would like to check but it's gone because the creationists have uh taken it away you can't find the evolutionary chart anymore. Uh I think you know everyone growing up knows the jocks ruled the school. You look at a movie like The Outsiders, or uh, Heathers. You know the nerds, the throw-aways, the thinkers, the daydreamers. These are the beaten; these are the kids that can't drink out of the water fountain today. You know, no one's...I don't see anyone standing up for their civil rights. And then we see-are we surprised why they're mad? Or why they end up dead? You know, why-why the violence? You know, uh...you made them, America. You know, what do you expect? Look at Woodstock for example. Oh it was supposed to be hippies, and love and pc, and united colors of benetton and bottled water. But instead they got riots, fire, and rape. You know, and uh, part of it I think is-is this phenomenon that to me is related to sports. And it's when rap and rock begin to mix and we created this oxymoron called 'jock rock'. And uh, to me it's kinda like uh...People come to a party that they don't understand, but they're just smart enough to know that they're the stupidest people there, so that makes them mad. I think that's what Woodstock was; you had these white kids in football jerseys trying to make rock and roll a sport by raping girls and beating each other up. And everybody's surprised, you know, "why, why?†you know, "it's the music, it's the music," you know. I think that you know, uh, part of man's evolution is always to compete. I think parents you know, are driving their kids, particularly through sports, you know. You got O.J. Simpson. 'Oh, he can't be guilty, he's an American hero.' We were just about to put his face on the three dollar bill. And then uh, you know, this Ray...Caruth guy this NFL wide receiver just charged with murdering his pregnant girlfriend. You know, people are-did they ask why? Why'd he do it? No one cares why. Ray Louis, this NFL linebacker charged with a double homicide in Atlanta on Super Bowl Sunday the most violent day of the year, with the most expensive commercial time, of course. He's out on bail. He's charged with murdering two people and he's out on bail. You know, you got Charles Manson sitting in prison for conspiracy, sentenced to death and you have this other guy walking the streets because he's a sports hero. Um, one...one story that really struck me and got me thinking about this was a few years ago there was this teenage punk rocker kid who was run down in an IHOP parking lot by a white jock and his girlfriend in Dad's Cadillac. And uh, this boy died because he looked different, and he was run down by a drunk piece of shit that hated him and had always picked on him. And it was a situation where you've got six kids who uh, got their noses pierced and you've got thirty jocks who are the popular kids at school. And they're picking on them, they're calling them fags, they're calling them...whatever, and uh...and uh...This thing happens, this guy kills this kid and is clearly guilty, his guilt is admitted...And uh...and guess where this all-American athlete is. He's in college. You know, the jury felt the punk rocker deserved to die because he looked the way he did. And not only was he killed but then in the trial, he was killed again because they criticized his lifestyle because he didn't wear a Tommy Hilfiger shirt and khaki pants. And then the killer was even applauded at graduation because he was a football star. The American dream; strong, normal, and never spent a day in prison. So who do we blame? You know, everybody wants to say violence, too much violence today. Well, did anyone forget about the Civil War? The Bible? Shakespeare? Violence isn't brand new. I don't even think seeing violence is the problem. I think a more serious problem is that seeing violence as a solution, to solve a problem, is what is sending a bad message to kids growing up. You know, even going back to a western; the hero kills the villain, saves the day. Children grew up in World War II and they learned that total violence was the answer. And I think that's when a dying culture began; and a dying culture kills everything that it touches. So these kids grew up learning this. They pass these values down with pride. 'We won the war but uh, you know. Damn that Hitler. Genocide and all those terrible things he did. Forget if we dropped the bomb, but uh, that's different. You know, we're Americans, we believe in God' so. That's where they create what I like to call the 'God band-aid'. You know, that's when uh, you got a problem. You stick the God band-aid on. 'My record's dirty and violent but I just won a Grammy so uh, I wanna thank God.' Or uh, you know, 'Someone just killed my daughter.' 'Oh it's okay, she's with God now.' 'Oh, okay.' You know, uh. You've killed somebody. "Oh, but I believe in God now, so you know, it's okay." Then all the other people with the God band-aids see that and they go, "Oh. He likes God, he's okay. Let him go." So, you know...Bad parents make bad kids. That's the way I look at it. That's why I asked the question, you know. I put this up on my website, I said: Is adult entertainment killing our children, or is killing our children entertaining adults? I think that's kinda the question we gotta ask ourselves today. And you have to ask yourself that every time you watch the hungry cameras at the crime scene, or at the funeral, or at the plane crash; interviewing the victims, you know...24 hour footage watching the guy blow his brains out on the L.A. freeway, you know. Uh, you know I'm in a square right now. You're looking at me. I'm looking at myself in a monitor. You know, we sit in front of the TV, and we are the TV. We're a copy staring at a copy, at a copy, at a copy. It's like the guy on uh, Jerry Springer who is always looking at the monitor to see if he sees himself. And then it becomes a loop because you see it, and you see yourself again and again and again. So eventually it's a Xerox that's so degenerated we don't know which came first. And that's where we are. That's what I'd like to leave you with. -Marilyn Manson-
Fuck all of you.
