Just Showing Power, Not Taking Over

One of the fascinating things to me, is how backwards the cultural life of modern human beings has slipped over recent decades.

And it's partly a consequence of self-willed simple-mindedness. And you can't 'lift up' those who themselves actually want to fall down. Even if you're very strong you'll be working against inertial mass going in an opposing direction.

That's not a Russian Sable dyed black, it's probably
a black diamond mink.
...Unless it's a Russian Sable dyed black. ; ))

In these pages I never post what I consider is visually deficient for the mind to look at - even if it could be looked at for information purposes; yet I still never post these things. And the same goes for sound and music. Which means although I will describe something now, I will not link any actual examples; I will, by contrast, post the exact opposites.

I say that 'dumbing-down' is only partly a consequence of people's own deliberate intentions to reside always in mental laziness - because what is also true, is that there has been a consistent systematic regime of audio-visual lies fed to everyone through the mass media. 

We can probably thank Edward Bernays and his interfering with the 'United Fruit Company' in the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the Guatemala government in 1954, for the CIA's avid obsession ever since, with designing the mindset of the public via mass public entertainment for its own political purposes.

By today, everyone has already forgotten about that movie that crashed all box-office records last week, you know, that thing, that, what was it called...? Yeah, that one. About all the angry white men everywhere.

Now that's actually quite a funny concept to me, except that I myself had the personal experience of walking through a city mall not long ago with my company's young(-ish) engineers, and holding my hands across them and whispering: 'hey that's professor Germaine Greer.' Only to be greeted with the ripostes: 'Who's Germaine Greer?'

Only post pretty things around here!

Well, Germaine Greer 'made love' to that 'entitled' angry white man, one time - you know, the talent-less Jimi Hendrix.

Today, if you search on YouTube 'music for sex' you will be fed a long list of tracks all featuring fairly ordinary sax music, over-drawn and rigidly repetitive drum and bass lines - in fact incredibly boring 'Latin-American' musical parodies rather like 'elevator music' but with the same drum patterns over and over and over.

The reason I have been talking about early modern architects is that in context of their day, their work is very hopeful - even though now, because these ideas have been parodied many times and copied beyond the human scale, they are symbols of dystopian imagery.

I don't think even if advanced aliens did land, and were able to overpower human opposition, they would be very interested in 'taking over' completely...

Any hope left? Not if the asteroid hits...

Now I know that we all want to make money, so that we may have the luxury of standing back, and casually making these objective observations of what we see of the world around us today - and so we will, too - but for just these last remaining few moments before it all hits, I know that at least quite a few of you here will be wise enough to pick up on some clues...  

This month, it will be from the Orionid radian - unless it's
and artificial shooting star.

  

It's a sedate track, but has some well-placed off-beats and

down-slipping minor colors.

And this is not so sedate.