Cultural Supremacy, the song

"I'm the shibboleth in effigy"

I went to college in 1987 to be liberal with the liberals. The people I found there inhabiting that term were the most insufferably illiberal I had ever met, so I never joined up.

Instead, I have watched them unleash spiraling Orwellian abuse on the rest of us, ever since. Absolute fleegan twadpockles!

This song is about them.

Press play on the video, and scroll down to read along.

(VIDEO) Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (Official Video)

Look at my style, what do you see?
Cultural supremacy.

I say whatever they want of me.
I go everywhere you wanna be.
Oh, I got cultural supremacy.

I won't be needing integrity.
I— got Cultural supremacy,
Cultural supremacy,
Cultural supremacy.

(chorus)
Red State hell, Walmart smell,
They are making you a deplora-bell.
Race and sex, what will be next?
Words will change before you guess.

(guitar solo)

I fall in line when they decree.
I'm the shibboleth in effigy.
Oh, I got cultural supremacy.

Your expertise is dead to me.
They tell me one and one makes three.
Oh, I got cultural supremacy.

My information comes inwardly.
Oh, I got cultural supremacy,
Cultural supremacy,
Cultural supremacy.

(chorus)
Red State hell, Walmart smell,
They are making you deplora-bell.
Race and sex, what will be next?
Words will change before you guess.

(guitar solo)

Your every word, your very name,
Is just a target I will defame.
You never will be— as good as me.
Oh— I— Got— Cul— tur— al— su— pre— macy

I got the cult'ral, I got the cult'ral,
I got the cult'ral, I got the cult'ral,
I got the cult'ral, I got the cult'ral,
I got the cult'ral, I got the cult'ral,
Su-pah-re-macy!

Karaoke version!

(VIDEO) Living Colour • Cult Of Personality (CC) 🎤 [Karaoke] [Instrumental Lyrics]

C’mon, you know you want to try it!

I can hit that high “G” alright, even with some attitude, but not again and again and again… sheesh.

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No shibboleths here

Look down your nose at cultural supremacy!

Hang out only with pure-blooded people.

It’s not enough to not be supremacist. We must be actively anti-supremacist! We could proudly display our lack of supremacy, by wearing… an arm band… or something…

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Notes

Cult of Personality (song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Personality_(song)
1988, very fitting.

I am proud of my near-perfect syllable match to the original song!

There are only three blemishes, unless you think “style” has two syllables, or unless you are bothered by the five times I dropped “the” before “cultural supremacy.” I could easily have left it in, but no one says “the cultural supremacy.” Seriously.

I also preserved many of the rhymes, which always sounds best, but I didn’t get too hung up on that.

Oh yeah, and I have now joined the ranks of those who have used the word “shibboleth” in a song! A select group, to be sure. I did abuse the word “effigy” in the process, but let’s say this person is such a mind-bot that they’re actually a walking effigy, of a shibboleth.

Like a middle school “kick me” sign

It’s a war of weaponized words, pockles. “Cultural supremacist” needs to be spread around, stuck to these people’s backs like a middle school “kick me” sign.

I suggest “supremacist” for short.

Walmart smell

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https://www.newsweek.com/peter-strzok-trump-smell-hillbillies-1020892