[NewMusic] More anti-carbon floop-print poopoganda (and my bug)

[Michael Henry]

Gino Robair wrote:

<<Warning.....I have a bug up my ass about this....and it is a lightning
bug.>>

>>You sure do! Wow -- that was a fun read over my morning scone. Right you are
>>about the MySpace/Murdoch dilemma, although, frankly, he bought it -- he
>>didn't start it.  I don't think the service is inherently evil.


Yes, I do indeed have a bug up there. Still. But I'm glad you enjoyed my bug with your scone ;-)

I fail to see what difference if makes that Murdoch didn't start MySpace. The fact is that he owns it now, and the revenue (which BTW, is quite significant...the Guardian piece says that that division of his evil empire netted him $1 billion over the past year...so indeed Matthew, people are clicking on those banner ads), goes to his pockets and directly or not, it supports the propaganda that his media empire spews.

It's not just the question of having a presence there that bothers me -- it's more the hypocrisy of the many so-called left-leaning folks (such as The Avengers) that really gets that bug up my ass. Touting your anti-establishment, anti-corporate, anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, anti-whatever credentials while you are driving money right into the pockets of the poster child for all that you are against.

If the Avengers, or whoever said that they just don't give a shit about politics, that would be one thing. But to claim that you do care and are against fascism in all of its forms and then support such a fascist with your art? (I'm particularly still picking on the Avengers here, not you Gino, as they go out of their way to wear their anti-establishment moniker on their shirt-sleeves ) Well....that in my book amounts to either stupidity (cluelessness) or hypocrisy. Take your pick.

I respectively disagree with you on the issue of the inherent evilness. If Hitler came back from the grave and bought MySpace would you still have page there?

Besides, I think the MySpace's 15 minutes is up (as the Guardian piece seems to suggest). Seems like a pretty lame place to me whenever I do go there -- which admittedly is not very often, since I avoid it like the plague. I usually feel like I need to wash my hands after visiting to remove the fecal matter that has come through my internet's tubes.

Politics aside, with so many other options available, I fail to see why someone would want to have a page on MySpace, trying to scream in the wind amongst the other gazillions of lemmings there that are screaming in the wind (which is not to say I have anything against screaming).

-MH

P.S. I want to be clear that I'm not picking on any particular folks here. I just wanted to know what reasoning you MySpacers could offer to justify your presence there. I'm sorry, but I have yet to hear any convincing reasons.