Gross and Conspicuous Error No. 1

Burn, Lendon

Lyrics

Burn: It is a G&CE to desire socialism with capitalist desire Lendon: Capitalism is in the mode of thought itself Burn: It reveals itself in the preposterous reification of psychology Lendon: As if psychology is discrete and ontologically distinct from ideology Burn: It is in the capitalist mode of thought to keep things separate Lendon: To keep the particular from the totality Burn: To keep us disunited so that its own servants Lendon: Sly capitalist priesthood of managers and entrepreneurs of every variety can unite us again Burn: To serve their cause and their class Lendon: The power elite Burn: So despite the lofty leather-chaired philosophical work on the mind-body dualism, the representatives of ?-as-culture can't put the world back together again

(There's a fucking spelling mistake)

Chronology

• Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors
  • Ian Burn - vocals
  • Nigel Lendon - vocals
  • Mayo Thompson - guitar
  • Jesse Chamberlain - drums

Interpretations

• The backing music is the song Men & Women. The Red Crayola performed the song live in the late 70s and Mayo Thompson released a studio version in 1993