{"id":1435,"date":"2008-02-16T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2008\/02\/16\/steelworks-my-bunghole\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T20:42:35","slug":"steelworks-my-bunghole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/steelworks-my-bunghole\/","title":{"rendered":"steelworks my bunghole"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"steelworks<\/p>\n

as if it isn’t already conflicting enough going to Chelsea for exhibition openings, where one (as in me) is surrounded by bougie types and people of a distinctly higher class who have (nor want) no relation to the world I live in or come from, then to stumble upon a poster advertising condos and lofts in Williamsburg (hipster heaven) for prices starting in the $560k range, and that for only a studio (not even a 1 bedroom!). it’s sickening, and maddening! to add insult to injury the poster proclaims, “THEY WORK HARDER, SO YOU CAN LIVE BETTER”<\/strong> with sepia-tone images of a welder next to a lady reminiscent of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn<\/a> circa the end of the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"steelworks\"
\n(screengrab from website)<\/p>\n

They, the anonymous Us. As in Me. Normal. and You. Whoever. We Work Harder So They Can Live Better.<\/p>\n

FUCK THEM.<\/strong><\/p>\n

it’s disgusting when capitalism can be so frank, so in-your-face-and-not-give-a-shit<\/em>, and society is so complacent, so happy. well as long as a couple million people up top are happy! but are they really? Frankly I like working, and struggling. It forces one to think. But if society isn’t already divided enough, I don’t want it shoved in my face, plastered onto billboards in my city. Every square foot – of floor, wall, side of building, subway platform – here is real estate, another opportunity to sell you something ‘so you can live better’. It’s a bloody joke people, Handcrafted Living. BOLLOCKS!<\/p>\n

Learn how to set a screw into a piece of wood you wankers. I join one thing to another and call it art<\/a>, and I call you wankers. Wankers.<\/p>\n

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