[NewMusic] What David Cope is up to

[George Cremaschi]

Well, Mr Goodheart's as-usual eloquent and knowledgeable posts have more 
or less elaborated my own position, so there's not that much to say, but...

Mr Threw wrote:

>Responsibility always lies with the creator, not the tool.

Well, that's what I've been saying. If someone develops software that is then
exploited by the NSA to spy on private phone conversations, the developer
shares responsibility. Whoever made Agent Orange: guilty. 
J. Robert Oppenheimer: GUILTY!

Mr Raskin wrote:

>It is a bit difficult to leave out the political and economic aspects of this discussion 
>and understand George's response.

Bingo!  But that can be a messy and unpleasant business. How much more fun is it to
simply say: "I just got The Sims™ 2 FreeTime, and it is sooo cool!" 


Mr Goodheart wrote:

>I'm always suspicious about the word "pure"

Of course, you know, Mr Goebbels used it a lot....


>When George writes of "robots," I don't think he means "unfeeling technology" 
>but rather people eagerly doing the bidding of corporations, all the while thinking 
>themselves "individuals".  

The selling of 'revolution' and 'individuality' had already reached a nauseating peak 
by the mid-90's, so probably most 26-year-olds have no clue how deeply they've been 
molded to be what they are supposed to be: apolitical high-consumers who take the 
democracy 'show', and their impotence to change it, for granted. (Mr Threw: "I can't stop 
the building of technology any more than I can stop the government.") 
The inevitability of where this is all headed is now taken as a given, with amazingly hubristic 
sentiments, like this one from Mr Threw: "my personal belief is that is a direct continuation of 
biological evolution". 

But who needs historical perspective and accountability? Certainly not Americans in general,
who have never been keen to upset the apple cart of USA do-gooder mythology, and without
a doubt not the high-tech industry, which combines American capitalist arrogance with a sort 
of Third-Reichian pomposity and sense of historical rightness that would be laughable, if it 
weren't so frightening. I remember when people laughed at Raymond Kurzweil. No one is
laughing now.
Again, Mr Threw: "the tech world IS the larger world now". 

Well then, there you have it: put away your gardening tools, and create an avatar, NOW!

-George



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