Check it. You all are doing a great job considering the implications on this in hip-hop and culture as a whole. The question was raised by Vocab, How do we deal with it? Well you simply ignore it. You continue about your life as if the very thing that is causing you angst does not exist. What you offer is an alternative, you grind no axe, you profess no juxtaposition, you keep making the opposite of what it is you despise. Those that agree with you will follow you lead and sooner or later you have enough of an anti-movment that the very nature of what you created in contrast will begin to choke the life out of the thing that got you there.

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Unfortunately or fortunately, you'll alienate most of the people with a vested interest in genuflecting at the altar of Friendly Fascist Yuppie Consumerism. These people have a remarkable ability to keep the blinders on, tow the party line, and blink incomprehensibly when you dare to display integrity or truthfulness. They are third generation pod people without even a passing acquaintance with the planetary processes that make us human.
- Rocco Sole