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Ed Sheeran songs removed from airwaves over Macklemore Palestine row
(www.the-independent.com)
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I wonder what it's like to be Ed Sheeran. Is there any air gap at all between Ed-Sheeran-the-brand and Ed-Sheeran-the-human? Does Ed Sheeran even exist as a human anymore, separate from the brand?
The brand clearly thinks it'll make more money by not taking any strong position on an active genocide. Makes sense for a brand, it's a corporate construct that's fundamentally amoral. It can only value profit.
What I'm wondering is what happened to the human? It existed at one point, before the brand did. Does it still exist? Does it share the same profit motive as the brand of the same name? Can it feel shame anymore? I hope it does.
As a stoner, yoink!
I'm fairly certain you stop feeling shame the moment you hit a specific net worth.
I said this elsewhere but it bears repeating.
It's not entirely profit motive. He very much DID take a stance. He tried to "both sides" it, completely ignoring the fact that one side has near infinite resources, access to SIGNIFICANTLY more advanced weaponry, and have openly declared their intentions to completely annihilate the other (AKA: genocide) while the other is on it's knees, bleeding out, begging for the children to be spared.
It's like responding to a slap in the face, by setting someone's whole town on fire, and then justifying it with "well they started it"
I read somewhere that he always saves front row tickets to raffle out to every day people, so it's not just rich people. Maybe he was human then.
Maybe he could invite Palestinian children and see how many seats are filled after Israel’s next school-bombing campaign.
Fuck him, we now know where he stands