- 05 Nov 2012 01:52
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He's probably making a masked reference to the very bad behavior of the Western elite who spend trillions on geopolitical games and poison technologies while millions starve to death or go without education or decent living conditions.
The "gold chains" he's talking about are meant to drive home the idea of empty status symbols. Gold chains, NASA, world hegemony, thousands of military bases, McDonald's franchises in the Congo...
The poor imitate the rich, or satirized them. I think Kanye is probably signifying both of these to please both his record company (BUY GOLD CHAINS!) and fans (mocking consumerism).
Spouter wrote:When Kanye encourages us to "buy 80 gold chains and go ign'ant," should I take that in a satirical way, or does he mean that literally?
He's probably making a masked reference to the very bad behavior of the Western elite who spend trillions on geopolitical games and poison technologies while millions starve to death or go without education or decent living conditions.
The "gold chains" he's talking about are meant to drive home the idea of empty status symbols. Gold chains, NASA, world hegemony, thousands of military bases, McDonald's franchises in the Congo...
The poor imitate the rich, or satirized them. I think Kanye is probably signifying both of these to please both his record company (BUY GOLD CHAINS!) and fans (mocking consumerism).
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
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The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.
— Julian Assange
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