{"id":1563,"date":"2014-06-09T11:13:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2014-06-09T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:14:05","slug":"poem-my-brand-of-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/09\/poem-my-brand-of-value\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: My Brand of Value"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brand value<\/strong>
\nHas plummeted recently<\/strong>
\nSo says sum consultant<\/strong>
\nAs some seer into my pristine hide<\/strong>
\nSpeaking a bout<\/strong>
\nClashing symbols<\/strong>
\nIn the mark it place<\/strong>
\nSome limbic game how logo<\/strong>
\nSoliciting every thing<\/strong>
\nThat can be taut<\/strong>
\nAs I must be<\/strong>
\nScarred for good<\/strong>
\nPimping my horrors<\/strong>
\nTo a void<\/strong>
\nTear attacks<\/strong>
\nOr fiscal fits<\/strong>
\nIn a world lackeying so much<\/strong>
\nI’ll pass<\/strong>
\nPerhaps in tact<\/strong>
\nOr knot out live<\/strong>
\nStill<\/strong>
\nForever chaste<\/strong>
\nKnow thanks<\/strong>
\nI do believe<\/strong>
\nI’ll steer clear<\/strong>
\nOf dis figure or dat figure<\/strong>
\nAnd risk being<\/strong>
\nDe-filed<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to sell ourselves for a high price, we need to pay homage to our brand.\u00a0 We often need to distort and simplify our deepest passions and interests so others can easily recognize our “value,” that is as such value may be determined at any given time and culture.\u00a0 In the marketplace of our modern world, this typically means configuring our lives to maximally monetize ourselves.\u00a0 Reducing our lives to money is a dangerous undertaking for our humanity.\u00a0 This poem takes issue with the assumption that we should spend much of our life trying to sell ourselves.\u00a0 What exactly would be a good balance?\u00a0 Perhaps 15% slave, 15% whore, and 70% free range human would be a good compromise.\u00a0 After meeting our basic physical needs, it strikes me that we should be devoting ourselves to the things that money can’t buy.\u00a0 Even meeting our basic human needs can be much more human than often offered by modern, so-called civilization.\u00a0 In fact, if we can trade, have mutual aid associations, grow some of our own food, build or repair our own stuff, we can loosen the grip that the moneychangers have over life, trading currency for the gloriously ineffable now.\u00a0 Humans are not machines to be ever more standardized, even in the most complex and beauteous contraptions.\u00a0 Rather than leveraging the seductive, money-making enterprise of simplifying and reducing humans to means to some financialized end, we should develop human relationships that harness the curiosity and appreciation of the unfathomably deep eccentricity and beauty of every human being.\u00a0 Then, we can move from boredom and cynicism to enthusiasm and bounteous hopes.\u00a0 This glorious movement from the bowels of an uncaring machine to a feral existence may be messy, even pricey.\u00a0 Nonetheless, the value of living undomesticated lives is boundless, offering more than any mechanized existence, no matter how tamed, how well-trained, or how profitable.\u00a0 Branding is not for the benefit of cattle or humans, and it is painful and scarring to boot!\u00a0 Branding is for the ease of those who want to own and trade you and every commodifiable aspect of your existence, rather than taking the glorious time and robust effort to see you fully for who you truly are, worthy of avoiding all mean ends, and courageous enough to face being de-filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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