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'You Can't Afford This 3'​-​Kraabel_Cano Amaro

from Bubbles by London Improvisers Orchestra

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You Can't Afford This 3
Words by Caroline Kraabel; music by Daniel Cano Amaro
Punk was my personal Perestroika – a few moments of freedom and possibility preceding a takeover by the most rapacious, the cannibals, getting fat on us. Mines, shipbuilding, steel, gas, electricity, water, telecoms, airlines, railways, housing, prisons, schools, universities, care homes, roads, parks, rubbish collection, forests, land, buildings, tubes, buses, pensions, post offices... sold off, privatised or destroyed.

Those with no ballast of scruple, love, or conscience floated effortlessly to the top, stealing from past and future generations. Once the tangible assets were gone for good, they used the technology of creators who dreamed of freedom to turn our ties of friendship, family, interests; our communication, curiosity, creativity and individual constellations of relationships, into PRODUCTS to be sold to the highest bidder (States, Parties, advertisers, corporations). YOU have now been privatised online.

When the ideologically committed state facilitators of overweening greed, whose sickness dictates their beliefs:

Fuck everyone else but me
Buy cheap and sell dear
There's no power but buying power
Enclose the commons
Poison the well
Everything has a price and if you have to ask what it is, you can't afford it…

when they come up against a novel sickness that can't be bought or sold, what happens?
An orgy of denial, buck-passing and empty bravado. The murder by omission of thousands who could still have been alive. The handing over without tender of vast contracts to inexperienced and incompetent private companies run by cronies. Because if they can't buy a cure, they can at least keep finding ways to turn a profit from all the sickness and death. Lie after lie after lie, over PPE, Dominic Cummings; Test&Trace; the tracking app; "immediate end to NHS surcharges for workers from abroad and their families"; "World-beating response". The exhortations to get back out there: herd immunity by the back door, cynically jettisoning the old, the poor, the very workers who are just holding the scraps of our society together. In the UK, the USA and Brazil, the most dangerous co-morbidity with Covid 19 is deadly extremist neo-liberal capitalism.

Words by C Kraabel
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from Bubbles, released July 5, 2020
Caroline Kraabel (voice/text)+Daniel Cano Amaro (trumpet).

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