The music below is modern, indeed it is quite avant garde. It is a treatment by Gareth Emery of something from BT called 'Godspeed' - and really, unless you are deeply interested in music theory and even the Platonic philosophy of musical harmony at its austere extreme end, it's pointless worrying too much about it here. A lot of young(-ish) people like this kind of music, and place it into the 'trance/dance' category.Fair enough. They know more than they know...
People in high places get very very advanced warnings about things that might affect them and a couple of years ago now, the Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko had her production people cancel a range of performances all across the West, including in New York - and then the problems with the Ukraine unfolded in obvious ways, and eventually Donald Trump was elected the President of the United States and all of the problems with the Deep State's entwined relationship with the coup plotters in the Ukraine, came out.
So you can see, people high up know about these things long before they get into the public arena.
Netrebko - who is far and away the greatest operatic soprano we have seen in a number of decades, and Ukrainian - has had an intense last year performing in Russia mainly, where she also sings the work of extremely modern classical composers on separate programs, alongside performing the major parts in the classical schedule across the year.
The public in the West is not seeing this stage of her career - and this is the one, generally, where the greatest sopranos have their finest dramatic and romantic vocal and performing moments.
However the kind of thing to do with undermining art and culture is not confined to Western classical music and all of the politics that goes on there. In the East, it was not that long ago that one of the truly greatest composers in the Kavvali style Amjad Sabri was murdered by terrorists. These sort of things are deliberately covered-up on-line and you will find that even the Wiki entries on the Sabri Brothers contain not only thinly-veiled insults about them, but are written is such a way as to clog up the narrative with large amounts of extraneous details, and it takes some time to even 'see' any mention that they were under constant threat from terrorists and had survived many attacks until eventually several of their musicians had been murdered.
One of the greatest singers you are ever going to encounter, Ustaad Saami, lives not only under constant threat against his life, but he will, when he dies, quite possibly have the knowledge and style of his singing die with him in a practical active living sense; music academics might be able to 'resurrect' the musical science behind his particular style of 'khayal' singing, which involves detailed musical notation of micro-notes and expanded scales.
So what does any of this have to do with anything?
After all, you can't build a house with a song, right...
The concept of an 'ethical Apocalypse' is that people really don't want to suddenly be uprooted from their lives and taken to some completely different form of living, some different lifestyle, just because the one they were living in is based on some false and flawed premise. And therefore the 'unveiling' of truth and authentic reality must happen in such a way as not to harm people's feelings.
And when you examine people's real lives and the outlooks that they all have, they don't want radical change - only so much change as would give them both a sense of self-power (over the material world) and some marginally greater wealth than they mostly all have. There's poverty of course, but you know what, even those people don't want you to change what they possess that is already theirs. That they believe is theirs, is who they are.
Super advanced ethical aliens cannot come to this planet and tell you what you don't want to hear or to know. And so they're not going to.
However you, who read here, are in a slightly different category.
Keep your eyes, on the skies.
Why does everything have to get shittier, Uncle Calvin?
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DeleteAn appropriate question, at this time. We have to accept, nephew, that in spite of our understanding that all things always have their natural profile - beginning, peak, ending/change - that we ourselves are living at the time of the ending slope of this phase of human society. Human society, in particular the 'democratic character' one we live in, and have lived in since the 17th Century, has gone beyond its peak efficiency point. We see the tragedies around us and are affected emotionally inside, but we must not allow the feelings to affect our inner minds; THIS is the challenge. We cannot 'fix' what society is going to do, but we can avoid the problems materially hitting us, and we can participate in small groups of others arranging the way out of it, the way forward for that small group. Let us address these arrangements... ...in up-coming articles.
DeleteVery Spenglerian. Armstrong made an interesting point on one of his blog posts last week when asked by a westerner (OECD west) how they could best avoid the coming collapse. He said Malaysia was full and most of SE Asia would start to turn against well heeled Caucasian refugees flooding their lands. But he also said his models could see small chunks of the OECD west separating and forming their own nations. It is going to get very interesting this next decade.
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