[NewMusic] More anti-carbon floop-print poopoganda

[Alicia Byer]

I think the point here is that networking software really does have the 
potential to do something positive for art (as evidenced by everybody's 
attachment to it) and it's just shitty that some asshole owns it and 
exploits it.. the same thing happens to everything with political 
potential in capitalism, it's simply absorbed or annexed instead of 
being opposed.

I interviewed this opera director in germany... she had written an opera 
about skinheads, kind of sympathizing with them in a way. The main kid 
who eventually became a neonazi had an art critic for a dad. Every time 
the kid to make art, the dad would put it on display and all the "powers 
that be" of society would comment on it and approve it and put it in a 
gallery, leeching away all the subversive power. Eventually the kid went 
crazy and became a Nazi because as the director put it, "that is the 
only thing that is so taboo that it will never be absorbed." She also 
said that "In a society like ours... that is always eating our tries to 
oppose [sic] almost always if you are a clever person at all you must go 
so far outside.. " (to stay true to yourself or have some integrity).

Now I'm not advocating neo-nazism, those people are scary and gave me a 
run for my money while I was in berlin, but I think there is some truth 
to the fact that we're between a rock and a hard place: either you sell 
your soul to the machine little piece by piece, day by day, or you try 
to retain some integrity, which forces you to live on an extreme fringe 
that may warp you and is not always necessarily good for your objectives 
either.

I'm not saying I have an answer, just pointing out that there doesn't 
seem to be a convenient(tm) way to exist with any integrity in America.

-alicia

Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
> Matt declared:
> This talk about evil
> corporations, how all CEOs are fascists, and how using any store-bought
> product or internet service is contributing to the destruction of our
> otherwise edenistic existence?
>
> - I don't think anyone is saying that all CEOs are fascists ... Only Rupert
> Murdoch, which might be slightly hyperbolizing his politics, but not by
> much. Oh, if only myspace was owned by George Clooney instead ...
>
> sl
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