The word "genocide" is very powerful. Much more so than ethnic cleansing, which implies some sort of concerted effort to scrub the ethnicity out of people with industrial-grade Comet.

Genocide contains the Latin suffix for killing, and therefore can't be confused with anything non-killing-related. There is also a UN Convention on Genocide which compels all signatories to act to end it. But only if the word is used. Which is why people are so paranoid about using it. I mean, if you had to clean up the mess every time you called something "a mess," even if it wasn't your mess, I bet you'd find ways to dance around the word, too.

So, while everyone with a layman's understanding of English will continue to call the goings-on in Sudan genocide, anyone from the UN will quickly correct them. Call it war crimes, or human rights violations, or even "acts with genocidal intent," but just don't use the naked form of the word. Because then we'd have to stop the killing and raping and pillaging. Like that would be such a bad thing.

It seems to me that if we, as fat and lazy capitalist pig-dogs, are okay with letting the darkies kill each other and give each other AIDS, we should just come out and say so. There's a lot of potential going to waste because of our hypocrisy.

For example, if we're okay with people in Africa starving to death or being killed with machetes, why not send more? Prisons are overflowing with people we, as a society, would rather not deal with. Rather than housing them and wasting a lot of money on security, just load them into container ships and push them overboard near the Ivory Coast, and they'll never bother us again. If it helps with the sale, I'm even willing to only send black people.

There's also the entertainment potential. People seem to love watching Iraqis get killed, so why not the Sudanese? If the news aspect doesn't pull enough viewers, there's always the opportunities for reality TV. Survivor: Darfur would have novelty appeal, if nothing else, and The Amazing Race would be a lot more amazing if contestants were being chased by a Muslim militia.

And then there's the research potential. Human trials for new drugs are usually expensive and heavily regulated. But if you don't care about the test subjects, that all changes. Some of them will already have the disease you're trying to cure. Bonus!

We could use them for allergy testing of cosmetics and perfumes. People are always protesting to end animal testing. Here's your chance! Like a few fifty-percent studies would even be noticeable over there.

You could also do military testing. Usually people frown on covert testing of new chemical and biological weapons. But if they're already at war....

I tell you, it's a brave new world, and all it takes is openly admitting what we're all thinking anyway. Decreased hypocrisy, increased quality of life. It's win-win.

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I am not a musician; really, I have no musical inclination at all. I usually hate music the first time I hear it. Recorded music is still in its infancy compared to say, the written word, but it has nevertheless gone through a much more rapid decline than has literature. Maybe this is because reading has been uncool for decades now, while your choice of music has come to essentially define everything about you.

So, in deciding who you want to be, your first decision should be what music you want to be. Some of us want to be popular, some revel in the smug sense of superiority that obscurity allows us, others just want to be super fucking weird. It should be fairly safe to assume that pop is not really popular. Nobody wants to define themself based on Hillary Duff, but plenty of us wish we were Mick Jagger.

Personally, I don't like to put all my identity in one basket, so I listen to several select bands; just in case one of them sells out, I don't want to have to drown myself in the bathtub. Music today is pretty much useless unless it has catchy or thought provoking lyrics. I won't get into the distinction between musicians and singers right now, because that's not really relevent. What is relevant is that most poetry is atrocious, and as a result, so are most lyrics. The bands I'm going to tell you to listen to today, well, I think they are pretty decent poets if not the greatest of musicians. To illustrate this point, I will attach some lines of lyrics.

Chiefly, I adore the music of Modest Mouse, who I understand have recently enjoyed some thousands of sacks of loot. That's pretty cool, I don't have a problem with it, doesn't change me at all.

Well, Cowboy Dan's a major player in the cowboy scene
He goes to the reservation drinks and gets mean
Didn't move to the city, the city moved to me
And I want out desperately

Next up are the Frogs, who don't seem to have done much of anything since 2000 or so, and anyway I don't think they're in any danger of becoming too popular to live your life by. They don't even appear to have a website.

Everyone's makin' a big deal
Over the fact, that I raped someone
What's the crime? I had fun

Lastly for today, I'll mention Silkworm. These guys seem pretty ordinary on first listen, but I don't know, something about 'em just won't let me remove their stuff from my playlist. They really seem to just be doin' their thing, and I don't think it's made them a whole lot of money, they might even be working day jobs.

I like music but it's not worth a lot to me
And doing something new is not so important to me
All I want now is Sinead O'Connor's breasts and lips against me in my bed
In my bed

If you have any friends who listen to classical music, they are probably planning some kind of murder or mass murder.

I can't comment on the last two bands Fuzz mentions, but I have managed to check out a few Modest Mouse songs. Let me just say, the reason Fuzz is so enamoured with the lyrics is that the music is fucking atrocious. They remind me of a friend's band in highschool, The Mighty Cumshots. Except TMCS had brilliant, inspirational lyrics such as those found in the headline.

When I want words, I read. When I listen to music, all I care about is the music. Rammstein are great and I have no goddamn idea what they're talking about. From what I can gather, it's similar in theme to TMCS.

Maybe I'm just less impressed with people who can rhyme because of my own ability in that area. Or maybe Fuzz is just a moron. Maybe it doesn't have to be either/or. All I know is Evanescence is a thousand times better than Modest Mouse, and they write songs about fucking vampires. Literally, fucking them.