So it seems everyone has their price. Iggy Pop and Johnny Rotten have decided to be advocates for consumption. Butter and Insurance. Nice work, so is that what you do when you get old and run out of money? I guess it always catches you in the end.
So it seems everyone has their price. Iggy Pop and Johnny Rotten have decided to be advocates for consumption. Butter and Insurance. Nice work, so is that what you do when you get old and run out of money? I guess it always catches you in the end.
Chomsky, Baudrillard and NMS. A philosopher and political activist, political commentator and a ghetto hip hop band. They all say and are hitting on the same things. I like the diversity of the trio. OK fair enough one philosopher to a social commentator isn’t that big a leap and its easy to nullify the words of a ghetto band. But listen to them they are speaking truth and sending out warnings. We a living in hyper real times. “Hyperreality tricks consciousness into detaching from any real emotional engagement, instead opting for artificial simulation, and endless reproductions of fundamentally empty appearance.” Life is a video game, we move around our lives playing out parts that some higher elite have created for us. Just like a real life SIMS game. Nothing is real its just so carefully manufactured that we think its real our well being has been replaced by unhealthy ideals of who we should be. We need to wake up before we destroy ourselves. We all know it but its easier to switch off.
“Modern industrial civilization has developed under a system of convenient myths. The driving forces of modern industrial civilization have been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate and praise worthy on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits. Its long been understood that a society based on these principles will destroy itself in time. It can only persist in whatever suffering and injustice it entails as long as its possible to pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, that the world is an infinite resource and that the world is an infinite garbage can.
At this stage of history either one of two things is possible. Either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests guided by values of solidarity, sympathy and concern for others or alternatively there will be no destiny for anyone to control. As long as some specialised class is in a position of authority it is going to set policy in the special interests it serves. But the conditions of survival and justice require rational social planning in the interests of the community as a whole by now that means the global community.
The question is whether privilege elites should dominate mass communication and should use this power as they tell us they must. Namely to impose necessary illusions to manipulate and deceive they stupid majority and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured they may be essential to survival.”
Listen.
Is this bitter? It’s certainly not the end of the world just the rise of the idiots perhaps? Or maybe just a harmless, inconsequential fashion sub culture… Dunno but sure see a lot of these guys around
And on form. Things are going well and i’m about to get stuck into some serious work!
There’s quite a lot in the pipeline – I’m hoping to get ‘At the time’ started up and working, this is going to be my video production company. Focusing on music videos, events, documentaries and community projects. I’m quite excited about this one think it will be good running alongside all my other stuff.
Got a few VJ gigs coming up in London with Net Audio launch at Shunt and one in Sheffield. So better get some new material up and running! I fancy something transferred from film photography as i just bought a new lomo lc-a! Although i think there will be too many beats for something too slow!
And also hoping to get another Outdoor AV set up for Light Night in Leeds. The other one was so great and got such a positive response it would be ace to do it again. So i’m on the look out for some new films!