The Listening Party

Sorry

Ok everyone, here's a great big stinking apology for all those whose listening party I missed, album I didn't buy, record store show I didn't attend, concert I couldn't afford, profile I failed to adequately scope, resource I didn't make use of, etc etc etc etc... last year. 

In my defense, I can only point out that I am in fact still counted among the living by a great many people, including (until further notice I assume) several successful legal professionals.

So Therefore Records

Aphex. Squarepusher. The stalwarts of IDM. So Therefore... 

kind of an ambient house-y 4x4 dub techno thing which is in fact totally different

What's my number?

Concepts like "dollar value" and "personal worth", much like a person's numerical age, are intrinsically meaningless abstractions that serve mainly to reinforce social conventions, perpetuate imbalances of power, and manipulate the uninformed.

Help yourself

Clergy invokes martyrdom to save themselves from total irrelevance

The Republican death march, pt. 2

So what happens now?

First, VOTE THE FASCISTS out! Replace conservatives with progressives at the BALLOT BOX. Quit f**king around in the street and get organized! Matters of national import are never decided in the middle of public streets. They are debated and implemented in the halls of power by elected officials.

Further, we must be wary of other members of Trump's party who will attempt to paint themselves as kinder, more compassionate alternatives to the MAGA minions while still pushing the same dour vision of winner-take-all economic exploitation and calculated muzzling of free speech: The "bad cops" are out in force now, so the "good cops" can't be far behind.

What remains to be done, then, is to identify and imagine the work that is actually required to get stability and sustainability within reach of the newly disinherited majority. It will not be easy. The country is exhausted, chronically ill, and under direct assault from those who would lead them. Yet these are the conditions from which great transformations become possible. Collectively, we must reveal the secret of socialism's potential: to implement a political system which truly champions the needs of ordinary people instead of manufacturing a dystopia according to the exacting specifications of captains of industry.

The choice could not be more stark, and there is now no more room for error on the part of the public. I exhort you to choose wisely!

Let's make a country 'by the people, for the people' a reality again!

The Republican death march

I note with interest that no political, religious, economic or social organization was able to prevent the rapid deployment of armed and deadly shock troops throughout major American cities: hastily hired thugs that are only too keen to shred the Constitution and trample on the rights of citizens and human beings on the orders of their shameless, thoroughly unhinged and power-mad dictator.

Just as in the past, a democratically elected despot has seized the machinery of government in order to twist its various functions according to his crazed ambition, which seemingly knows no bounds. Whereas in a true democracy leaders use the power of their office to advance goals in line with the general good, perhaps only mildly inconveniencing one or another group when no other alternative is available, in an autocratic regime all decisions are ultimately made by and for the autocrat, often on whim, and without any consideration for the welfare of the population served.

That is what we are witnessing today in the streets of this country. We are witnessing the consolidation of unchecked power in the hands of an unelected minority; an unholy alliance of freelance overlords who sailed in under the radar when the rest of the country was too busy fretting over various aspects of the private lives of others instead of keeping a watchful eye on the affairs of state. In a culture obsessed with image and bluster, it was relatively easy for Republicans to install their puppet dictator and ram their blatantly authoritarian, anti-democratic agenda through: they simply lied better than their opponents, many of whom probably never considered that they might some day share a chamber with the disgraced, looming hulk of a once legitimate political party completely overrun with fulsome demagogues and feckless boot lickers.