Once upon a time, if someone professed ignorance about you, you might excuse it in your head as an honest mistake. Today leaves no room for honest mistakes. Which is funny because we’re all smarter and more educated than ever and thus equipped to better than ever sell our dishonest mistakes.
We speak in half-truths and think that focusing on someone’s rhetorical slip up makes us right. No one cares to talk to figure out what we have in common, or even where the other guy is coming from, it’s all to score points and win. To get likes. Retweets. Shares. A better Q rating.
Man is a social animal, but this is crazy.
Shungudzo Kuyimba is a Zimbabwean poet who was accepted to Stanford University at the age of fifteen. She was academically brilliant, but chose instead to stick it out and pursue music. She has released a surefire hit in “Long Live the Billionaire” as of this morning.
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Would you care to know the lyrics to this poem that is now a song? I know you would.
Didn’t choose where I’m born
Didn’t rain on your streets
I don’t know who you came for, but it wasn’t me
Soldier on the road
Did they promise you gold?
Do you think that you’re aiming that gun that you hold?
Hey, watch them bombs burstin’ in air
Long live the billionaire
Ashes fall down on my hair
Long live the billionaire
Air, air, ahh-ahh
Air, air, ahh-ahh
Air, air, ahh-ahh
Air, air, ahh-ahh
Eagle in the sky
Are you just flying by?
Do you come here to save me, or bury me alive?
Soldier in the road
Tell me what you were told
With your face in the sand and your mama don’t know
