ill communication - that's sabotage



I can't stand it, I know you planned it

But I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate

I can't stand rocking when I'm in here

Because your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear

So while you sit back and wonder why

I got this fucking thorn in my side

Oh my, it's a mirage

I'm tellin' y'all it's sabotage

So listen up 'cause you can't say nothin'

You'll shut me down with a push of your button?

But I'm out and I'm gone

I'll tell you now I keep it on and on

'Cause what you see you might not get

And we can bet so don't you get souped yet

You're scheming on a thing that's a mirage

I'm trying to tell you now it's sabotage

Why; our backs are now against the wall

Listen all y'all it's a sabotage

Listen all y'all it's a sabotage

Listen all y'all it's a sabotage

Listen all y'all it's a sabotage

I can't stand it, I know you planned it

But I'm gonna set it straight this Watergate

I can't stand rockin' when I'm in this place

Because I feel disgrace because you're all in my face

But make no mistakes and switch up my channel

I'm Buddy Rich when I fly off the handle

What could it be, it's a mirage

You're scheming on a thing;

that's sabotage.

what's your point?

Some mediocre unoriginal beastie analysis:

In the pursuit of power and maintenance of an elitist structure, people and organizations often use very subtle techniques of "ill communication" in order to sabotage, attack, or discredit others they find threatening or undesirable for some reason or other--usually because of some challenge to the existing official power structure. These techniques include very subtle, oblique, indirect attacks disguised as positive gestures (one recent concrete, physical real-world example: dropping of food AND bombs), smear campaigns, rhetorical power struggles disguised as real communication, questioning or (silently/openly) judging one's background or motives, silence, gossip, condescension, and various other ways of imposing a pre-existing structure of how things should be on anyone who deviates or threatens to deviate from what has been established as the accepted norm. And the most insidious of these kinds of systems and the hardest to challenge are those that are able to present themselves as completely open and accepting, free, democratic, non-authoritarian, progressive, multiethnic, non-sexist, etc.

Nothing new or original or earth-shattering in these ideas of course. People--ALL people--have been tripping on power probably since there were people.