Lockdown vs. Music
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woops
is not like other people
what, spend loads of money on music electronics? nice utopian vision but does not chime with my noughties dole experience
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
What with infections rising again in countries that have eased lockdown, makes me think (or is it concede) that we could be in a state of lockdown for a long time.
That means clubs closed for ages, probably a lot that will go out of business. It makes me wonder what effect that might have on what music people make.
Perhaps the effect will be negligible, which means it may be more "fun" to ask - what would happen to music if lockdown NEVER lifted?
That means clubs closed for ages, probably a lot that will go out of business. It makes me wonder what effect that might have on what music people make.
Perhaps the effect will be negligible, which means it may be more "fun" to ask - what would happen to music if lockdown NEVER lifted?
thats not what ubi is. Ubi doesn't demarketise the essentials of life, I.E: food, public services, housing etc. It's an evil to keep capitalism going relative to its material limit in ratio to the labour it expells which it cannot reabsorb.
nonsense.
The kids who should be inventing new musics to impress girls and boys are spending ALL THEIR WAKING HOURS on Xbox instead.
I saw the best minds of their generation destroyed by the likes of Fortnite & Travis Scott's Astronomical Event
Left twitching in their beanbags, wanked out husks
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Not at all. Vestigial mental organs that (in a time all of us have forgotten) bestowed the ability to create rather than consume will grow back.
Kill the Internet, send it down with all souls, down to the very bones of the ocean.
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you're just an old fart. any creativity is not going to impress you without a culture. except culture has been domesticated. you'll still get the same problem with no internet. isolated localism with no cultural impact.
I suppose you could argue that what I'm saying (and I guess hmgovt) is reactionary or retrogressive or whatever, backwards looking, to something that we can't really go back to. I'm not saying as a permanent thing, just a few weeks, enforced. Pandemic has shown us change can come fairly quick.
But in a bigger point, I used to think that what mckenna and to a certain extent chatwin said was right. Chatwin says, in songlines, that the future is back to nomadism, small groups wandering. Mckenna says its either this, or we go into space. And Burroughs says this, out objectives as humans on this planet is to use it all up, evolve into space.
But recently I've been reading urbanomic and this spinal catastrophism book and heard about this thing called fermats paradox (think that's the guy, maybe not) where they are talking about how, given all we know about life and the universe, there should be the odd other advanced form of life somewhere in our solar system, but we can't find one. Which is odd. So the thinking is that advanced civilisations collapse under their own weight, cos they get their wants and needs all fucked up (as they can create the reality they desire, they move further from the reality they need).
So a period of checking, just simple checking, stopping, have a look, that's what we need.
But in a bigger point, I used to think that what mckenna and to a certain extent chatwin said was right. Chatwin says, in songlines, that the future is back to nomadism, small groups wandering. Mckenna says its either this, or we go into space. And Burroughs says this, out objectives as humans on this planet is to use it all up, evolve into space.
But recently I've been reading urbanomic and this spinal catastrophism book and heard about this thing called fermats paradox (think that's the guy, maybe not) where they are talking about how, given all we know about life and the universe, there should be the odd other advanced form of life somewhere in our solar system, but we can't find one. Which is odd. So the thinking is that advanced civilisations collapse under their own weight, cos they get their wants and needs all fucked up (as they can create the reality they desire, they move further from the reality they need).
So a period of checking, just simple checking, stopping, have a look, that's what we need.
Wanked out husks good line.
My mate who has kids has a real problem with his eldest kid on fortnite, they've had to read up on it cis it's so inmersive, this 11 year old is basically suffering a comedown after it. I do think what we've created on our screens is bad for us in high amounts but I also instinctively think third is perhaps right and we can't go back either.
This is the inevitable endpoint of isolated localism though
This is what your beige conformity has taken away from us
Fermi Paradox, but there's the Dark Forest solution to it. Civilisations learn not to broadcast their existence because of what may be out there, specifically other more advanced predatory civilisations.